#CHANGE FONT NAME FONTFORGE INSTALL#
Install the font, and preview in Libreoffice Writer.
(There are many other errors that will be raised but I never cared to understand those, just know that you can ignore them as well.) You can forget about these errors and generate anyway. The first size (1000) is a convention, while the other two are linked to another error you will get : "Non Integral coordinates." In order to save space and reduce file sizes, it is common to round all coordinates to integers, hence the standard 10 sizes being powers of two. If you checked validate before saving You will get an error "Non standard Em-Size", standard sizes are 1000, 10. This could break your font in inexplicable ways, so at least keep in mind that these options exist and should be set properly. These are the default settings (more or less), but you may change them by mistake without noticing as I know I did a few times. Options should be set to Hints+FlexHints+TrueTypeHints+Opentype+PSGlyphNames+LookupNames. as "Font#1.ttf" in TrueType OR "Font#1.otf" in Opentype (CFF). Select the empty glyph and Metrics|SetWidth to 100.ĭo File|Generate Fonts. The last thing to do is create the glyph for "space" (Hexadecimal number 0x20). If you had precise positioning going on, this might break it. Simply click the letter you want to edit on the screen.Īn automated way of doing this is to select multiple letters, and choose Metrics|Set both bearings set both bearings to 20. You can type the name of other letters in the text box to preview them together and choose the ideal spacing. Open each glyph and manually drag the two vertical bars close to the letter like this. If this happens to you, closing and reopening FontForge should fix this. Tip: There seems to be a bug where, upon copying something inside of FontForge, it sometimes becomes impossible to paste anything from Inkscape afterwards. Tip: If you had done precise positioning in Inkscape and don't want to lose it, copy the letter AND a small rectangle like this before copy pasting it, then delete the rectangle from FontForge and voilà!Ĭopy all the letters into FontForge : picture. PS: If the holes in the letters do not appear in fontforge, check that your paths are not opened (thick stroke in fontforge's editor), then try to run Element|Correct Direction. You can select all the points and drag the letter back onto the baseline. It will appear in the top left hand corner like this. Try copying a glyph from Inkscape and pasting it in an empty cell in FontForge. Em Size is the sum of the two, you can read more about em-sizes here. This is what Ascent and Descent corresponds to : picture.
In FontForge go to Element|Font Info.|General. Heads-up for the next step: If you experience issues with copy-paste on Windows, refer to this post. Select them and do: right-click|Fill and stroke|Stroke Paint->click the cross. The last thing to do before importing the glyphs is to remove their stroke. Other ways of handling holes in letters are explored in this answer. In this picture the holes in the letters are made using shapes drawn with a white fill color they are sitting on top of the black shapes we just drew, and their outlines can similarly be seen in the picture before that. Once the shapes of your letters are closed, color them by adding a Fill color (flat color). Here's where I put the points for these specific shapes: Imgur. Using the Draw Bezier (Shift+F6) tool in mode Bezier Path, draw some simple letters. To change the color to a light transparent one, Fill and stroke|Fill change it's opacity and use the color wheel. You can remove it's border by right-click Fill and stroke|Stroke Paint and click the cross.
#CHANGE FONT NAME FONTFORGE HOW TO#
Read this guide on how to pan and zoom in Inkscape.ĭraw a Rectangle (F4) in the background like this to serve as a baseline (the pink rectangle). Open File|Document properties|Grids and create a new rectangular grid with SpacingX=25, SpacingY=25 In the box Custom size set Units=px, Width=500, Height=500. Open Inkscape to create a new document and save it in the same folder as the. and save the file in a directory (such as ". Part#1 - Simple Alphabet In this tutorial, we create simple font, and introduce core concepts of both Inkscape and FontForge.ĭouble click Fontname to select it and type "Font#1" (all the names should change) then validate OKĭo File|Save as.
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