Arial, as with all fonts created after the year 1989, is named for a character in the subaquatic Disney film, The Little Mermaid. Although Arial is the most notorious of post 1989 typefaces, Arista (dedicated to the mermaid protagonist's sister) and Sebastián (which shares its name with the film's dubiously Carribean decapod) are also worthy of note.
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Note: The TTF to be created will be approximately 6.5K in size and will feature A, B, D, O, P, Q, R, a, b, d, e, g, o, p, q, 4, 6, 8, 9, 0, %, $, & and @ only. Note #2: Of course, not all devices will have Arial available. Your best bet is to put fonts similar to Arial lower down in the stack.
In our font hacking workflow we shall be routinely converting glyphs into paths and back again, so it helps to have a "sandbox" file to drop coordinate data into. The easiest way to set up this file is to create a new Inkscape document, draw a basic shape like a circle or square on the canvas and save it. Open this file up in your text editor and you should see a single path element with various attributes:
There is a reason for this and, according to at least one source, it is the ancient Periclean Greeks and their attitudes towards coordinate systems that are to blame. Finger pointing aside, the reality is that standard SVG vectors are drawn, like most image formats, from the top left, while SVG fonts are drawn from the bottom left.
Those familiar with Font Squirrel's superb webfont generator will already be comfortable turning this font into a kit. However, we're going to want to base64 encode our font, which we shall be trimming down to a subset as proposed earlier. Remember: we're not going to be using a hacked Arial Bold but a new font based on Arial Bold, with Arial Bold left intact.
Arguably, the most fun is to be had making only the subtlest of changes. Popular fonts have familiar, well-established personalities so even the slightest subversion could have a potentially dramatic effect on their reception. Take James Grieshaber's photo of misprinted signage at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, below. The slightly misplaced counters have instilled an accidental exuberance into a previously po-faced geometric sans:
I've always found more creative satisfaction in deconstructing things as opposed to constructing them; more mileage in reconfiguring than configuring. I think the reason is that starting from scratch feels like starting from within and simply purging my private, isolated ideas into the world always felt a bit pointless. This is probably why I'm drawn to Dadaist photomontage and why I've spent countless hours of my life obsessively sourcing and sequencing audio samples. I enjoy being able to turn mere consumables (adverts, songs, fonts, images) into my own cultural objects. I get a kick out of transforming diktat into dialogue, engaging with what's already out there and forcing it to engage with me.
If you share my inclinations, perhaps you'd care to outline your font hacking ideas in the comments. Alternatively, you can reach me on Twitter (@heydonworks). Even if your subversions don't yield production-suitable typography, I hope you'll gain a better appreciation of some of the most iconic and pervasive shapes known to the worlds of design and culture.
All patched fonts have Powerline symbols, extra powerline symbols and many icons to choose from. Build your own status line, add icons to filetypes, make visual grepping easier. You are only limited by your imagination.
As you can see with this writing font from Cricut (font is called Adalaide and is the one at the bottom of the image), it is just one line. But, with the one at the top (Betty B, one of our fonts here at Makers Gonna Learn), you can see that there are two lines forming the letters.
This is called a compound path and that is how other fonts are brought into Cricut Design Space. Cricut even has some non-writing fonts that are like this as well. The compound path where there are 2 lines instead of just 1 is the key difference between a writing font and a regular font.
I am often asked where I find my fonts. To be honest, I find 95% of the fonts I use on Teachers Pay Teachers. Many font designers on TpT have fonts you can download for free. Below are some great font designers with links to their TpT stores. To give you variety, I have listed established font designers and some of the newer, up and coming designers. If you know a fabulous font designer that I left off the list, please leave a comment in the comments section so all my readers can also discover that designer.
Samsung's Galaxy Store has fonts that you can install. The problem is, many of them aren't free, averaging around $1.79 per font. But Galaxy users on One UI 2.0, aka Android 10, have another option. Using a series of APKs, you can have access to 73 different fonts for free. And best of all, it doesn't require root, just time and a good file browser.
Instead, just open Samsung's pre-installed My Files app or any file browser with ZIP extraction capabilities. Open the file in the browser and choose "Extract." Once extracted, a folder titled "monofonts" will appear in Download.
Exit the file browser, and open the #mono_ app you just installed. Here, you will see a list of all 73 different custom fonts you can install. Select an APK and sideload the font. You can install as many as you want if you are unsure how each looks.
thanks for the tips....curious to know how to add other fonts to the monofonts app? I have a few other ttf files but am stumped on how to get the ones i added to monofonts to work. are they supposed to be turned into an apk first? thanks
While typography itself is a complex and nuanced subject, there are few great tools and shortcuts that I've found to be really helpful when learning to pair fonts and choose better combinations for your UI designs.
There are a couple of ways you can add new fonts to a Google Docs document. One method exists inside the application, although it is slightly hidden away. The other method involves adding new fonts by using third-party apps.
I know this is SUCH a hard thing to do! As teachers, we love using all the colors and fonts. But, when you hone in on one specific brand, you will start to be known for those colors and fonts and that style. I want your TPT store to be so cohesive that when a customer is searching for a resource, they see your product cover, recognize your brand, and become a repeat buyer because they know your work quality is high!
While I have written about my thoughts about montype fonts some time ago, I was still looking for some nice font to be used within Visual Studio Code as well as Terminal (macOS as well as Windows Terminal). Said that, Microsoft just released a new font (actually they open-sourced it). called Cascadia Font at GitHub.
Powerline fonts are special patched fonts that contain additional characters that can be used in the terminal. VS Code's terminal renders some of the Powerline symbols without needing to configure a font, but if more glyphs are desired, configure a Powerline font with the font family setting. Powerline fonts typically end in " for Powerline", the following setting is an example of how to configure a DejaVu Sans Mono that has been patched:
The typesetting application TeX and its companion font software, Metafont, traditionally renders characters using its own methods. Some file extensions used for fonts from these two programs are *pk, *gf, mf and vf. Modern versions can also use TrueType and OpenType fonts.
You should give pacman the ability to manage your fonts, which is done by creating an Arch package. These can also be shared with the community in the AUR. The packages to install fonts are particularly similar; see Font packaging guidelines.
For the Xserver to load fonts directly (as opposed to the use of a font server), the directory for your newly added font must be added with a FontPath entry. This entry is located in the Files section of your Xorg configuration file (e.g. /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/xorg.conf). See #Older applications for more detail.
If you are seeing errors similar to this and/or seeing blocks instead of characters in your application then you need to add fonts and update the font cache. This example uses the ttf-liberation fonts to illustrate the solution (after successful installation of the package) and runs as root to enable them system-wide.
Almost all Unicode fonts contain the Greek character set (polytonic included). Some additional font packages, which might not contain the complete Unicode set but utilize high quality Greek (and Latin, of course) typefaces are:
Kaomoji are sometimes referred to as "Japanese emoticons" and are composed of characters from various character sets, including CJK and Indic fonts. For example, the following set of packages covers most of existing kaomoji: gnu-free-fonts, ttf-arphic-uming, and ttf-indic-otf.
Fontconfig lets every user configure the order they want via $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf.If you want a particular Chinese font to be selected after your favorite Serif font, your file would look like this:
There are several font aliases which represent other fonts in order that applications may use similar fonts. The most common aliases are: serif for a font of the serif type (e.g. DejaVu Serif); sans-serif for a font of the sans-serif type (e.g. DejaVu Sans); and monospace for a monospaced font (e.g. DejaVu Sans Mono). However, the fonts which these aliases represent may vary and the relationship is often not shown in font management tools, such as those found in KDE and other desktop environments.
Applications and browsers select and display fonts depending upon fontconfig preferences and available font glyph for Unicode text. To list installed fonts for a particular language, issue a command fc-list :lang="two letter language code". For instance, to list installed Arabic fonts or fonts supporting Arabic glyph: 2ff7e9595c
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