Customized Icon Font / Ligatures Feature and additional Font Infos

[FlorianPircher]

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Symbol font keyboard equivalency and not displaying

Hi I created a set of symbols. Followed your tutorial Creating an Icon Webfont. I removed all the glyphs and started a new set named uniE001 to uniE032. They all went into the Private Use. I am not sure what the keyboard equivalency is to the actual symbol. In other words, how do I know which is the key to hit to display the symbols. I exported them into the Adobe library font, but are not able to see them. I can see the name of the font with a little string of symbols next to it on the …

How to access Private Use Area glyphs via keyboard?

Hey everybody, the answer to this may be simple but I couldn’t find a solution elsewhere. If anybody will be able to help I’d really appreciate it! I’m currently creating a symbol font. As the symbols don’t match any existing characters I’m putting them in the Private Use Area, starting with E000. This however makes it a bit annoying to access the glyphs later on (e.g. in InDesign via Glyphs window). I’d rather have them accessible via keyboard, e.g. type ‘a’ to get one of the symbols. …

Ligatures and Alternates Private Use Codes

I’ve created standard ligatures, stylistic alternates, and a few icon glyphs in my font, and by default each of those glyphs do not have unicode values (just names, e.g. T_T.liga and A.ss01), I’m wondering if it’s best practice to add Private Use Area unicode values to each of these glyphs (the ligatures and alternates) or if I should just leave them blank/unencoded? My understanding is that Open-type savvy programs, with the features turned on, will make those glyphs active/accessible even if …