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486 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Isolated > medial substitutions in FontForge
I've been working on a font for a fictional language (Ta'agra from Skyrim) and I'm having issues getting the substitutions to work. It's supposed to be written similarly to Arabic where each letter ...
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How do I make sure the unicode box drawing characters work properly in my font?
Unicode has a set of characters for drawing simple graphics. Here is an example from Wikipedia:
┌─┬┐ ╔═╦╗ ╓─╥╖ ╒═╤╕
│ ││ ║ ║║ ║ ║║ │ ││
├─┼┤ ╠═╬╣ ╟─╫╢ ╞═╪╡
└─┴┘ ╚═╩╝ ╙─╨╜ ╘═╧╛
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How do I make the letters seem as a part of the entire type set?
Tldr; Help me identify elements/qualities in "I" that makes it seem belonged to this set
Greetings
I am a design enthusiast, and to understand typefaces, I started 36 days of type.
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How to batch convert multiple Inkscape SVG to plain svg and converts all objects/layers to paths?
I'm making some illustrations for a dissertation in Inkscape and I like this software.
However, when inserting those illustrations to Word files, there appear some weird artifacts like:
disappeared ...
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Create metric-compatible font
How can I create a font that is metric-compatible with a commercial font?
I don't need actual glyphs, just rectangles that will preserve the document layout.
What properties are important?
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What is the math governing the shape of Inkscape's spiro paths?
I have begun experimenting with Inkscape's "spiro" mode for curves. Since I usually end up writing Python to create art that Inkscape just doesn't have the tools to accomplish, I'm curious what the ...
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Export svg without anti-aliasing in Inkscape 1.0 by command line
Inkscape 1.0 has the choice to export svg to png without anti-aliasing by GUI:
I want to export svg to png from the command line without anti-aliasing, but I'm not able. I've read the Inkscape man ...
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Inkscape not showing svg that displays correctly in browser
This svg from wikimedia, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/OOjs_UI_icon_language-ltr.svg, is visible in web-browers, but shows nothing in Inkscape 0.91r13725
<svg xmlns="http://...
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All superscript (and subscript) font
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I am creating an app with React Native which needs to be able to display super/subscript. For some reason, there is no way of doing this on Android because the View cannot be nested in the ...
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Comparison chart for glyphs that work in MS Word, Illustrator, InDesign+
I want to buy some fonts and ran across an excellent comparison chart for the advance glyphs and ligatures available in the various programs such as Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and so on.
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Looking for svg editing software that supports the animate function
I am currently doing some simple svg files by hand. They contain simple graphics. Think of a circle representing a planet and a smaller circle passing in front of it representing a moon. I use the ...
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Problem converting pdf to eps - grey hue (using Pixelmator and Inkscape)
I am not a graphic designer at all, but a science grad student.
I need to submit figures to a journal in .eps format, they do not accept .pdf.
When I try to convert my .pdf files to .esp, different ...
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How can I change every instance of sans-serif to a different font in Inkscape?
This question asks about bulk changing a font in Inkscape: How to change font of all the text in an SVG image at once using inkscape?
That works, but only on text with a font selected. Text with the ...
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Hebrew typeface that appears to be a Latin typeface at first glance
The famous font Sefard is a “faux Hebrew” Latin font: It looks like Hebrew script at first glance on account of incorporating typical Hebrew typographic elements, but actually it is a Latin-script ...
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Font with a particular style for the letter "x"
I'd like to find a font in which the letter "x" looks like the unicode character U+1D4CD: MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL X, that is,
𝓍
in the style which you would write by hand with two curved ...
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