FontLab - Ligatures HD

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Uploaded by on Apr 9, 2009

I'm showing you how to make ligatures inside FontLab.

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  • thank you for the tutorial, very helpful!

    And... don't despise Comic Sans.. it's not its fault that people don't use it properly :/

  • @marianayi13 Still ;)

  • why comic sans...D:

  • @lolloluis It's not Comic Sans. I made this font myself, based on elements from my own handwriting. I'm deeply offended by you comment, as I despise Comic Sans.

  • Quick question if you dont mind, How could I apply this feature to substitute out differently designed glyphs, im creating a typeface and i dont know opentype and im trying to switch out characters to other ones Ive designed for a script typeface.

  • Hey. I think what you're referring to is the so-called "alternates" - different variations of a certain glyph, that changes according to which glyphs you write next to it. I still don't know how to create alternates, but I will investigate this for a future tutorial :)

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  • @damiaandufaux I did solve it. It all depends on the software. I used to test my font with my old Freehand and that's why for it does not handle OTF well. Softwares like Adobe CS3,4 or 5: InDesign and Illustrator have Opentype options. If you have any of these softwares, look up in their font menu, your will find a few options. I found a blog called Typophile that was usefull when I was making my font, ask all kinds of questions and font fans are kindly enough to make time to answer. Good luck!

  • @turoturom got the same problem can you please tell me if you find it out

  • I am missing something, I do all you say, then I generate font as OTF and install the font BUT I don't get the ligatures I programed following your tutorial. Is there anything else I need to do before I generate the font?

  • thanks!

  • excellent ...thank you...

  • excellent tutorials!! Wish you did more :) I have a question regarding this tutorial: How do you 'program' the symbol for 'j_m_n' since it is not in your basic set of characters.

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