Your quotes, dashes, bars and slashes will only need to match the caps. You may also want to reconsider the design of your parentheses, brackets and curly braces. An all-caps font usually will not need old-style figures, and the lining figures will probably not need any height compensation and can stretch to the full cap height. And consider removing some features that may not make sense anymore when there are no lowercase letters, like the case and cpsp feature. Features and glyph setĭo not forget to update the automatic and manual OpenType features in File > Font Info > Features (Cmd-I). And the proper relationships between lowercase and uppercase are preserved. ![]() Then proceed to File > Font Info > Features, and click the Update button, so Glyphs can insert a locl feature that swaps i with idotaccent if the language is set to Turkish, Azeri, Crimean Tartar, etc. In other words, in an all-caps font, i and idotless should be an uppercase I without a dot, and idotaccent an uppercase İ with a dot. Choose Glyph > Add Glyphs… (Cmd-Shift-G) and past this recipe in the dialog that follows: I=i In order to support both Turk and non-Turk languages (at least in OpenType- and language-aware applications like Adobe apps), we need to keep the following three lowercase i glyphs around: i, idotless and idotaccent. A dilemma.īut fear not, there is a viable workaround. If it is Idotaccent, it is incompatible with all non-Turk languages using the Latin script. The logical problem is now: Which uppercase glyph should receive the Unicode value for the lowercase (dotted) i? If your answer is I, then your font is incompatible with Turk languages. Turk languages, including Turkish, Azeri and Tartar, relate the lowercase (dotless) ı to the uppercase (dotless) I, and the lowercase (dotted) i to the uppercase (dotted) İ, whereas non-Turk languages, including French, English, Spanish and German, relate the lowercase (dotted) i to the uppercase (dotless) I. The relationship between uppercase and lowercase is not the same for all languages though. See, where it says Unicode, it shows more than one entry. Choose Glyph > Remove Glyph (Cmd-Delete).Select all glyphs ( Edit > Select All, Cmd-A).In Font View (Cmd-Opt-1), go to the left sidebar and select Categories > Letter > Lowercase.You can even have Glyphs assign them automatically in one go: Luckily you can assign not only one, but several Unicode values to a glyph. ![]() The glyphs with a Unicode value can be typed (that is, if you have the appropriate keyboard layout), or copied and pasted as text. ![]() Read more about Unicode in this tutorial.Ī glyph in your font is either accessed by its Unicode value, or, typically the glyphs with a dot suffix, through an OpenType substitution feature, which substitutes a glyph carrying a Unicode value with a glyph that has no Unicode value associated with it. The most important codes, the codes in the so-called ‘Basic Multilingual Plane’ (BMP) have four digits and can be represented with 4 hexadecimal digits, from U+0000 to U+FFFF, in total 65,536 code points, containing the characters for all modern writing systems. In case you were wondering what the U+ means: it is the marker for a Unicode hexadecimal code.
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