Fonts for LyX

Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org
Sun Apr 2 18:12:13 UTC 2023


On Sun, Apr 02, 2023 at 10:37:33AM +0200, Eckhard Höffner wrote:
> Fontforge, in some special cases also inkscape. Inkscape has some
> advantaages. The first curves of the O, D, B, P, d, p or o have all been the
> same, sometimes scaled or flipped. The ampersand (et) uses a flipped 3, the
> ß is based on f+s.  The f is close to the old long s (which was used for
> example also in english printing at least until the 18th century).
> 
> But I'm actually looking for hints like: the superscripts are to bold, the
> accent grave is to far on the left side, I need bold italics small caps, the
> spacing of italic capitals (used in the headers of the standard article
> class)  must be corrected and so on.
> 
> 
> Am 01.04.23 um 20:46 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
> > What tools do you use to develop the font?

Thanks for sharing those details!

Scott
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