Adding OpenType Features in FontLab VI, Part 4: Alternates

In the last post I wrote about features that were relatively minor for Protest (fractions, ordinals, diacritics for caps, and ligatures). Here’s what I’m covering in this post in the feature order for Protest™ (in bold): script language specific forms (locl) fractions (frac, numr, dnom) ordinals (ordn) all caps (case) various alternates (calt, salt, ss01, ss02, ss…) ligatures (liga, dlig) manual alternate access (aalt) What [...]

2018-11-27T13:08:36-08:00November 27th, 2018|Categories: How, Type|Tags: , , , , , , , , |
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Adding Alternates in FontLab VI

In my last post I documented what I did to add diacritics to my Protest font in FontLab VI. This post is about adding alternates to Protest. And there are a lot of alternates. However, having already added glyphs to FontLab VI, and having already added diacritics, the process is fairly straightforward. Preparatory Work In another blog post I mentioned that I'd been drawing and [...]

2018-10-18T12:24:02-08:00October 18th, 2018|Categories: How, Type|Tags: , , , , , , , , |
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