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We’ll do this by typing the letters into the right hand column called ‘Source Glyph Names’.ī) If your ligature is made up of more than 1 source glyph, separate them with a ‘space’. Next, we’ll need to associate our ligature glyphs with their default source glyphs. The subtable name will be added to the subtable column on the left. To add the corresponding ligature substitution subtable go ahead and,Ī) Click ‘OK’ to accept the default name, or change it. The next step in this tutorial will guide you through the process of naming and completing this subtable.

The ‘Lookup Name’ will now be auto populated and a ‘liga’ will be added to the feature column.Ī) You can either keep the default ‘Lookup Name’ or change it.Ī) Go ahead and untick ‘Store ligature data in AFM files’,Ī new dialogue box will pop up asking you to name this subtable. To create a ligature substitution lookup table, make sure you’re still in the ‘Glyph Info’ dialogue box from the previous step.Ī) Now select ‘Ligatures’ in the left hand column, thenĪ) select ‘Ligature Substitution’ from the drop down list at the top, next to the word ‘Type:’.ī) Now click on the little button next to to add a new line, which should also trigger a drop down list. Once you’ve named your new encoding slot, we’ll move on to creating a ligature substitution lookup table. Note it is standard practice for ligatures to have an underscore ( _ ) separating glyphs, although Fontforge seems to recognize either an underscore (f_i) or, no underscore (fi) for the output fi.Ī) or this tutorial, we’ll be using an underscore ( _ ).įor a detailed explanation of the Glyph Info dialogue box visit Fontforge’s userguide. On the next screen, make sure ‘Unicode’ is selected in the left hand column then,Ī) In the box next to ‘Glyph Name’, manually type in the name of your glyph. Now we need to name our new encoding slot.Ĭlick on the new encoding slot glyph cell, The new encoding slot will be added to the end and right at the bottom of ‘Font View’.

Using fontforge windows 10#

This tutorial is shown on a Windows 10 computer with Fontforge version 03142020.įor this tutorial we’ll be adding a new encoding slot for the ‘tt’ ligature, however you can also,Ī) use one of the Private Use Area (PUA) Unicode slots which start at E000, orī) use one of the Unicode slots for ligatures at FB00, orĪ) Click on ‘Encoding>Add Encoding Slots’ī) Insert the number of encoding slots to add.

Using fontforge free#

It’s a free font for personal and commercial use with an open source license. The font used in this tutorial is called Belmist.

Using fontforge download#

You can download Fontforge for Windows, Mac, or Linux from here.

To finish off, I’ll provide tips in case your ligature lookup table may not be working.

Next we’ll type ‘tt’ in “Metrics View’ to check whether our ligature table works.

Then we’ll add a single substitution lookup table, using ‘Glyph Info’.

Next we’ll add a new encoding slot so that we can create and build the ‘tt’ ligature.

We’ll start with a brief definitions section.

Using fontforge how to#

This tutorial will show you how to create ligature tables in Fontforge, via ‘Glyph Info’. It's not causing trouble for Alberto so we decide to do the thing I was supposed to be doing using his machine instead.How to Create Ligature Tables in Fontforge

Everything finally works but I have no idea why this SVG is calling trouble.

I modify some bits of the SVG path until it works:.

I start deleting and re-adding svgs until I find the broken one its this:.

I switch to the node engine in the grunt config and it all magically works but the bounding boxes are all way out of the generated icon font.

This is quite a common problem and nobody seems to know what's causing it: sapegin/grunt-webfont#135.

Then try to simplify this SVG in Sketch, Illustrator, etc. To find “bad” icon try to remove SVGs one by one until error disappears. Try to use “node” engine instead of “fontforge”.

Probably one of your SVGs is too complicated for fontforge. Warning: Something went wrong when running fontforge.

Using fontforge install#

I go back to regular brew install fontforge.

It takes me a while to figure this out and switch to a more easy-going network

The FT network blocks the git:// protocol.

I decide to compile from source using these instructions:.

I wonder if it is not set up properly as i didn't install it with the GUI, maybe that's important (?!).

I decide this must be because I've installed the wrong version of fontforge (like in tep 3).

I do brew install fontforge which appears to work.

The webfonts task (which uses fontforge) fails with (something like) fontforge is not installed please ensure you have all dependencies installed.

I install font forge from HEAD using this link:.

Fontforge just opens and then immediately crashes again as documented in this bug: fontforge/fontforge#2497.

Instlalled other dependencies outlined in.

Installed fontforge using the instructions on.