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Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio
  • Thanks! I'm chuffed with how they turned out.

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  • I have a (very low) fixed tariff with them, but I'll move to agile when it ends.

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  • Nah, that's just me not adjusting the positioning of the apostrophe. Lots of clean-up to do :-)

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  • Oh! That is very clever. Thank you.

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  • Both! Unicode has some support for as-is ligatures. For example is U+FB01.

    Modern fonts can also use self-defined ligatures. That's how fonts like https://www.sansbullshitsans.com/

    So my plan is (eventually) to add in ligatures where Unicode has defined them - and automatically replace typed text with self-defined ligatures where it doesn't.

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  • Cheers. The code was cobbled together by me from various random tutorials and things I had laying around.

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  • Cheers! I'm hoping to add some more letters and tidy up the rest when I have more time.

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  • Thanks :-) It was a couple of days work. Mostly teaching myself stuff that I'd forgotten. I blogged about it so others can follow the process if they want.

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  • shkspr.mobi Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio

    Disclaimer! Work In Progress! See source code. I recently read this wonderful blog post about using 17th Century Dutch fonts on the web. And, because I'm an idiot, I decided to try and build something similar using Shakespeare's first folio as a template. Now, before setting off on a journey, it is ...

    I've built a new font! Thoughts and feedback on my approach very welcome.

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  • We're getting a bigger solar battery installed next week! So lots of tidying up the porch, making sure we have tea and biscuits on hand, and researching whether we can move to a dynamic electricity tariff.

    And hoping next week is sunnier so we can fill the damned thing!

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