History Behind The TG version of "Yanone Kaffesatz": Koffee TG!

[urednik]

Thanks guys. I contacted the author. Well the author has obviously not yet created that glyph, however it should not be hard to make one, since we already have the letter "C", and the letter "Č" just misses a kind of a circumflex that is already used in his (provided) letters "Š" and "Ž". So it seems to be a matter of copy and paste. My Typelight font editor seems not to have that limitation as you mentioned, however if I get the authors permission, would any of you be so kind to do this for me? Regular, bold and italics (6x copy paste as I understand??? .

[Gare]

Hi Urenik—

If you have the permission of the font creator, and can post a screen capture of what you'd like the character to look like, a visual example, and post the font as a zipped up attachment, I can add it to the typeface. Bold, italic, and so on.

My Best,

Gary

[urednik]

Well he autoreplied that he is gone out of computer reach for 3 weeks now ...
GreAAAT!.
Gare, thanks, how about a testdrive? I will not publish it public until he answers. He seems like a decent German young guy, who has not had enough time to make the font complete
If we do not make it public then we are not working against copyright anyway.
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Gsry thanks in advance. And I sure will report his answer shortly.

As said above the letter č is always the same as letter "c" + a circumflex that can be copied from the letter "š" which is in the font.

[Gare]

What I'll do is see if this is possible.

Given my success, I'll wait until you get the author's permission before I post the font, and in that act, sort of release it to the world.



My Best,

Gary

[Gare]

Okay: I've created the characters within a FontLab (*.vfb) file. Technically, this took a little time, but I have absolutely no idea how to call up the Unicode registers for:

Lowercase Latin letter c with caron U+010D
Uppercase Latin letter C with caron U+010C





This is where they have to go, so Bill or Mike: can you assist?

The glyphs are currently in 001E and 001F in Unicode view.

TIA,

Gary

[Big Frank]

As said above the letter č is always the same as letter "c" + a circumflex that can be copied from the letter "š" which is in the font.

^ is a circumflex, ˇ is called a caron (don't want to be anal, but...)

[Gare]

I knew what I thought he meant, Frank.

Or did I?



See my previous post. I copied the caron component itself from the s caron characters.

-g

...and what's wrong with being anal?

[Big Frank]

Yanone is also missing r-caron and R-caron, so I added them as well, plus the unicode mappings, and tested in Xara




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nothing wrong with being anal on occasion i guess but all the time would be pretty intensely insufferable

[Gare]

Big Frank—

I just practiced being anal a moment ago.

I removed your finished truetype font as an attachment because no one has permission from the creator of the typeface to modify and distribute it.

I have your file and will be happy to post it for you the moment urednik and/or Yanone posts approval to edit and redistribute the typeface.

This has very little to do with TalkGraphics' policy, except that it conforms to good web practice for respecting creator copyrights.

The only reason I posted the VFB file, which is not a typeface file but instead a resource, a project file (you can't load and use it in Windows)—was for anyone with a good font editor to find the character slots for the new glyphs.

I'm not picking on you Frank, or admonishing you. I'm just being a Moderator, being just a little anal in the CYA sense, and the only time you might not want your backside watched is in the shower.

-g

[urednik]

Oh that looks great! Thanks.
Caron (thanks there) is present in the ttf file in the 1250 latin 2 set, but it is not a created glyph yet. It has the numbers 010C and 010D for lowercase.
Do we really need to create a unicode set?
Perhaps this should do, shouldn't it? (perhaps I talks absolute nonsense, but it seems like a nice try to me