not_cake Cmptrmn 1.5
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WIP as a polished sans-serif font. Cmptrmn is the short of computer mono, but in textspeak style
Staff pick!!!!!
Finished Blocks:
Latin (Basic, Latin1, A, B)Modifier and Diacritics (basic)
Greek, Cyrillic & ArmenianHebrew
Added PUA for alternative glyphs, handwritten alternatives, Bulgarian and Serbian Cyrillic variants and a variant of the Armenian “ho” in uppercase. Armenian “et” has been redesigned.
Finished basic Unifon and Shidinn (PUA) Pre-existing glyphs are not in the PUA because they are already covered in Latin (or Greek & Cyrillic)
Redrawn Armenian ho, added Georgian basic and Vietnamese additions
Added Lisu & Missing letters from Xdi8
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ABCDEFGHIJKLMOPQRSTUVWXYZ1Ǝ46ꓭӨabcdεefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzıəɜөʎ
AΔΛBȻDEFGHIKLMNOPRSTЂUVWYƵ
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Is it me or does Ը kind of resemble Հ (Bolorgir style)?
The Armenian* capitalised Հ, ho does not resemble Ը
It is based on the Segoe UI or SF Armenian style
Recently I realised that the "R-without-straight-line" variant was an anomaly that is, created in the late 20th century after the rise of Unicode, because typographers were struggling to make the traditional zigzag to look geometric or uniform.
Nevertheless, this usage is strongly disputed and criticised by “typographical nerds” or purists saying it is a bit like an act of “assimilation” to “Latinise” Armenian characters. Due to this reason, the recent Armenian glyphs have been correct to look less like Latin, and following the Segoe UI / SF Armenian suit, following either the “Erkat'agir” or “Shghagir” variant. You can also go to the encyclopedia entry in Wikipedia for more information about the design of the glyph at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_(Armenian) .
Similarly, it is strongly discouraged to use f for "ք" or r for "ր".
For accented characters, I decided that the ring in the letter Å should not be attached onto the top of the letter A because it can lead to inconsistency with the letter Ů, whose ring is never attached. Also it can lead to reading problems to people with disabilities, especially dyslexic people.
There is a formula where for two-pixel height diacritics, like an acute, tilde, grave, circumflex (aka caret), ring etc should take 0.5 y pixel for a capital letter or a lowercase letter with an ascendent, but 1 y pixel for general lowercase letters.
test of diacritics, note that this rule is not applicable to the diaeresis or the macron etc because it takes ONE y pixel only.
To summarise, in modern Armenian fonts, using the R-without-vertical stroke is increasingly seen as a major design faux-pas.
the R-without-vertical? isn't it the Հ-without-vertical?
@marcotoa You appear to have misinterpreted my comment. I did not say that Հ (Ho) resembled Ը (Et), I said that Ը (Et) resembled Հ (Ho) because of the part at the bottom right going downwards.
Bit of a side note: Latest version of FontForge (as of writing this comment) still copies “f” to “ք” when doing Build Composite Glyphs or Build Duplicate Glyphs. It doesn't even look anything like “f”.
How about do I need to redesign the “et” or that’s fine enough.
Is it a good idea for me to design the et character to remove the bottom descender hook or not
This is what I should’ve interpreted
Am I right?
well if it wasn't the first attempt then definitely it must be right this attempt
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this is increasing incredibly fast
hey, tesh (found at the end of "which") is typed as 2 chars in your example, but it's single char in IPA, right?
@SquareOctent That's an affricate, which is usually written with a tie bar, but it can be omitted as long as it doesn't create ambiguity. Affricates were historically written as ligatures, but that was dropped in 1989.
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