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Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio (shkspr.mobi)

I've built a new font! Thoughts and feedback on my approach very welcome.

edent, 9 months ago

The answer is... I don't know :-) Maybe both? What do you think would be best?

edent, 10 months ago

Thanks :-) It was a couple of days work. Mostly teaching myself stuff that I'd forgotten. I blogged about it so others can follow the process if they want.

edent, 10 months ago

Cheers! I'm hoping to add some more letters and tidy up the rest when I have more time.

edent, 10 months ago

Cheers. The code was cobbled together by me from various random tutorials and things I had laying around.

edent, 10 months ago

Both! Unicode has some support for as-is ligatures. For example fi is U+FB01.

Modern fonts can also use self-defined ligatures. That's how fonts like https://www.sansbullshitsans.com/

So my plan is (eventually) to add in ligatures where Unicode has defined them - and automatically replace typed text with self-defined ligatures where it doesn't.

edent, 10 months ago

Oh! That is very clever. Thank you.

edent, 10 months ago

Nah, that's just me not adjusting the positioning of the apostrophe. Lots of clean-up to do :-)

edent, 10 months ago

Thanks! I'm chuffed with how they turned out.

edent, 10 months ago

Done! Thanks :-)

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