Marnanel Thurman
5d4e9baeec
Add the Shavian alphabet to Bedstead.
2018-04-04 22:10:47 +01:00
Ben Harris
6a4238d2d2
A few more forms of transport.
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Inspired by seeing U+1F69A DELIVERY TRUCK in the subject line of an
email, here's a glyph for that and also U+1F680 ROCKET and U+1F682
STEAM LOCOMOTIVE.
2018-04-03 00:57:56 +01:00
Ben Harris
0a3baad29e
Another Unicode sorting fix.
2018-04-02 22:12:18 +01:00
Ben Harris
af9e436840
Minor fix to Unicode sorting.
2018-04-02 13:17:23 +01:00
Ben Harris
543f43a2f3
Move stroke on dotless j with stroke glyphs down by one pixel.
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This makes them match the lower-case "f" of which these characters
were originally turned versions, and also makes U+0284 LATIN SMALL
LETTER DOTLESS J WITH STROKE AND HOOK more visually distinct from
U+0192 LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK.
2018-04-02 08:21:35 +01:00
Ben Harris
d73c402598
Add stroked fonts to GhostScript FontMap.
2018-03-13 18:50:52 +00:00
Ben Harris
fcbb3c8d90
Minimally-functional code for expanding dots.
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It takes a little bit of effort to avoid segfaulting FontForge, and so
currently Bedstead Plotter Thin has dots in the middle of its dots.
These probably shouldn't stay.
2018-03-08 22:33:36 +00:00
Ben Harris
f438f9ad7e
strokefont: Slightly clean up chiseltip invocation
2018-03-06 21:39:47 +00:00
Ben Harris
12127d0a04
strokefont.py: Set SFNT "Preferred Family"
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At present, this is just the same as the family name.
2018-03-06 21:35:35 +00:00
Ben Harris
dd3c9d4845
Skeleton code for adjusting dots in plotter fonts.
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In light fonts, they end up almost invisible, but I have a plan.
2018-03-03 20:46:26 +00:00
Ben Harris
c19d2ab747
Start a collection of links to articles about character design.
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Happily, type designers seem to love talking about their languages'
unique letters.
2018-01-03 23:01:46 +00:00
Ben Harris
04bc584c97
Slight tweak to "AE": move crossbar of "A" part down 1 pixel.
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That puts it in the same place as in the "A" proper, and aligns with
the advice here:
https://medium.com/@frodefrodefrode/designing-the-letter-%C3%A6-862cffbe22b
"The crossbars are not usually aligned in typographic typefaces ..."
2018-01-03 21:50:03 +00:00
Ben Harris
4b4dac09bf
Add a temporary makefile target for experimental fonts.
2017-11-27 00:09:28 +00:00
Ben Harris
6120176259
Complete the set of circled and squared plus, minus, and dot.
2017-11-26 23:33:06 +00:00
Ben Harris
a287174507
Add a couple of upside-down characters.
2017-11-26 23:26:58 +00:00
Ben Harris
43c895f9ac
When stroking a font, adjust the BlueValues accordingly.
2017-11-26 22:53:00 +00:00
Ben Harris
049d92d5f2
Add prime and double-prime glyphs.
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Not the prettiest, but they're visually distinct from apostrophes and
accents.
2017-11-26 16:20:14 +00:00
Ben Harris
f1f7599854
Add therefore and because symbols.
2017-11-26 15:48:33 +00:00
Ben Harris
7174e3015b
Add white left and right triangles.
2017-11-26 15:28:53 +00:00
Ben Harris
474ef418ce
Add mathematical diamond shapes.
2017-11-26 15:21:36 +00:00
Ben Harris
be454b1d55
Add gratuitous cube root and fourth root symbols.
2017-11-26 14:42:34 +00:00
Ben Harris
ee8a8325ad
Add assorted mathematical vertical lines.
2017-11-26 13:54:45 +00:00
Ben Harris
ffc5a9de9c
Add mathematical ellipsis characters.
2017-11-26 13:42:13 +00:00
Ben Harris
64dd2d9a28
Two-level brace and summation characters.
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The braces are a compromise, since each glyph has to be usable as both
the top and bottom half of a brace.
2017-11-26 12:20:11 +00:00
Ben Harris
fe017bcbc3
Be consistent in capitalisation of block heading comments.
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I use sentence case for these where the Unicode standard uses title
case.
2017-11-26 12:02:59 +00:00
Ben Harris
f1bac5326e
Add the various long bracket components.
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All are derived simply by lengthening the vertical parts of the
standard glyphs.
2017-11-26 12:00:51 +00:00
Ben Harris
efa7c75586
Correct the name of ordfeminine in df.ps as well.
2017-11-26 10:30:55 +00:00
Ben Harris
fcd5771e00
New, better invsmileface glyph.
2017-11-26 10:28:55 +00:00
Ben Harris
2536b614a2
Python 3 compatibility for the editor.
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It still works in Python 2.7 as well.
2017-11-26 10:21:52 +00:00
Ben Harris
c33fc255ec
New unhappy face glyph.
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It was the only missing face in the BMP.
2017-11-26 10:04:37 +00:00
Ben Harris
5723961091
U+2126 OHM SIGN
2017-11-24 22:20:25 +00:00
Ben Harris
88348059ee
Add U+2044, "fraction".
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I think that completes StandardEncoding.
2017-11-24 22:04:13 +00:00
Ben Harris
f09162f992
Assorted accents from StandardEncoding.
2017-11-24 22:00:40 +00:00
Ben Harris
c3842c2963
Add "fi" and "fl" ligatures.
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Not actually enabled as ligatures, since that would be silly, but some
character sets want them as presentation forms.
2017-11-24 21:38:42 +00:00
Ben Harris
08e561d2e3
Add capital schwa glyph.
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I keep seeing it in Commons filenames written in Azerbaijani.
2017-11-21 22:50:02 +00:00
Ben Harris
458304cb30
Add partialdiff glyph.
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It's part of Mac Roman, and probably some other interesting encodings.
2017-11-21 22:17:37 +00:00
Ben Harris
fc04f77124
Add the tab-key glyph.
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Because it's just about possible.
2017-11-21 11:43:30 +00:00
Ben Harris
f26a79bb56
Subset and superset symbols.
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The proper subset symbol is only slightly different from lower-case C,
but I think that's inevitable.
2017-11-21 11:28:15 +00:00
Ben Harris
c9d168e234
Large mathematical operators: summation, product, and integral.
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All of these span the full height of the character cell, since that way
they'll work equally badly with subscripts and superscripts.
2017-11-21 11:21:35 +00:00
Ben Harris
75e04065fb
A tolerable perthousand sign.
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I've made so many bad attempts at this character that this feels like
a win. Also, it's an annoyingly common character in character sets
I'd like to cover.
2017-11-06 00:50:16 +00:00
Ben Harris
a0feec7f38
Improve nib shape for Bedstead Chiseltip.
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It's now an integer approximation to the original 20° 100×50 rectangle
that I first used.
2017-08-18 22:46:41 +01:00
Ben Harris
ebceeb0166
Set underline width for stroked fonts.
2017-08-18 22:46:18 +01:00
Ben Harris
6270d56611
Set the "H" flag on all glyphs in SFD files.
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This turns out to be all it takes to get FontForge to autohint fonts
on generation. FontForge's autohinter isn't perfect, but it's pretty
good and certainly better than anything else I've got.
2017-08-12 10:11:28 +01:00
Ben Harris
b83df76033
strokefont: Better font name handling
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This gets the PostScript names right. TTF names are more difficult.
2017-08-12 10:05:52 +01:00
Ben Harris
f7290084a3
strokefont: Set StdHW and StdVW appropriately to pen.
2017-08-12 09:41:01 +01:00
Ben Harris
9a93b07e13
Makefile machinery for stroked fonts.
2017-08-12 09:36:43 +01:00
Ben Harris
f43c450449
strokefont: More object-oriented approach.
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Now we have one class for each broad class of stroked font. I think
this will be easier to manage.
2017-08-12 09:25:56 +01:00
Ben Harris
2c5fc3b5bc
Beginnings of a script to stroke fonts.
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The plan is that bedstead.c will produce a single-path font and then
this script will stroke it in various ways, adapting the font metadata
appropriately.
2017-08-12 00:04:22 +01:00
Ben Harris
63b418811a
A scattering of additional characters from Latin Extended-A.
2017-08-09 23:25:04 +01:00
Ben Harris
7864d4d1c8
Clip character names to boxes in glyph complement.
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Ideally, I'd do something more elegant with over-long glyph names, but
at least keeping them in the boxes doesn't look terrible.
2017-08-09 22:23:48 +01:00