246 Glyphs and counting.

At this point I think I broke my own personal FS record of most glyphs in a font. I don't know how far I will continue to extend the language support, since more glyphs all adding up to the already miserable task of kerning within FS itself. But I'm most certainly not finished yet.
:D

UPDATE:

The characters in the basic Latin block, numerals and punctuation are fully kerned, as well as the majority of important characters in the extended Latin block. But some still need a slight adjustment. (this will be happening in the following days.

I will probably add another small number of characters that are still missing. But it is reaching the end of development by now. I hope you like it.

Cheers

Some ligatures and accents at work.

@ q375324:

I load the font into FontLab which features a tool called "Quick Test As".

This opens the character set into a basic text formatting tool that is also selectable. Allowing me to copy a certain/or the full glyphset to the clipboard. This is pasted into a secondairy tool online to generate all "two-character" combinations from the selected characters. The output data from this again gets copied into another tool that deletes all line breaks generated in the previous step. The output data from this step gets copied once more into a 3rd online tool which removes all whitespace.

These 3 steps now should have generated a continuous line of character combinations.

This gets copied into notepad in order for me to isolate every combination string for a certain character. Which I do by adding back in a line break after each last character in the specific sequence. (Usually I put the underscore at the end of a string since its stands out the most. Which ofcourse had to be done in the very first step simply by making sure underscore is the last character in the selection. Anyway, this simply is making it more easy to see the next location for a line break in a continuous string of text)

once I have each combination string seporated by a line break my template for kerning is ready to be copied into FS's kerning tool.

u can find these online tools here:

Combination Generator

Remove Line Breaks

Remove All Whitespace

Reading this at first u might think that it is a whole lot of work just to get ready to kern, But its actually pretty straight forward and fairly quickly done.

Cheers

I'm aware that it is much easier to skip kerning within FS and go straight to work in FontLab. but I simply want my fonts here @ FS to be decent as well. So for this reason I choose to do it the hard way, which is within FS itself.

@ Aeolien: First of all thank you so much for your kind words. I must say that for this particular font It did feel like I picked all the ripe fruits from those previous small grid fonts I have been making recently. It clearly shows how much of a versatile and powerful tool Fontstruct really is, regardless of the grid dimension.

Those recent small grid designs were mostly heavily aimed at achieving seamless transitions in stroke width and getting the best possible curvatures, close to a true Bezier, while still maintaining simplicity in the basic letterforms. Sometimes this only made up for a pretty boring final result, but these were so very educative for me that I'm very glad I did them nonetheless! :)

[UPDATE 12-12-2022]

• Numerous refining adjustments were made to various individual characters.

• Extra characters added (Language support for 77 languages)

Now 93 languages are supported!

Thanks mate, that is one of the main design goals.