Hi,
I have this little stroke that comes out of my ascenders.
Ideally I would like this to apply if certain other glyphs precede it.
Is there anyway to use something like a connector or a entry stroke anchor rather than creating alt glyphs as I have also quite a few stylistic alternatives.
Working on my first font and thinking I’m missing a design feature when it comes to this bit.
Many Thanks,
Jennifer
Is it always the exact same thing? Would it make sense to move it to a separate glyph called connector (and perhaps suffixed variants for special combinations, like connector.o.n), and use an OT feature for swapping it in whenever necessary?
Hi Rainer,
Thanks for responding.
So since posting I’m amending my alt variations of my ascenders to remove the little stroke to the left.
And building into calt to use the isol glyphs instead of the alt ascenders where a ascender follows.
It’s working well for the glyphs I’ve changed.
For future knowledge is there a option of creating a connector glyph that docks using a anchor and build calt with instructions to use in x situation? Just thinking of future cursive scripts ?
Thanks a million,
Jen
You will typically need a few different connectors.
Unless you can reduce the amount of connections. Have a look at Victoria Rushton’s Typographics talk:
Thanks so much Rainer, will check it out.
