Pitfalls of Creating and Implementing Multi-script Fonts
Joshua Hadley - Agfa Monotype Corporation
Intended Audience: |
Managers, Software Engineers, Marketers, Content Developers, Font Designers, Graphic Designers |
Session Level: |
Intermediate |
As the number of defined code points in The Unicode Standard grows, there is
a corresponding desire to have fonts that can display the characters.
However, there are many unforeseen consequences of packing numerous
characters from different scripts -- many of which have widely varying
properties and behaviors -- into a single font file. I'll examine some of
the more common and vexing issues we've encountered in building large
multi-script fonts, as well as share some observations of how customers have
implemented them. I'll also show some examples and suggest some practical
workarounds.
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