Notes_ToDo.md

The To-Do List

in order of priority

To Do:

• Brush up on my Japanese font terminology.
• Enlarge の slightly. (Not strictly necessary.)
• Enlarge う just slightly. (Lengthen, to be more precise.) (Actually, don't.)
• The top stroke of the hiragana こ has a misaligned brush return. This should essentially be similar to an uroko (うろこ), typographically speaking, but is not currently. Fix it.
  • Take a second look. Adjust again if necessary.
  • Write up a brief explanation of how an understanding of calligraphic influence and the calligraphic origins are import in understanding letter design, using this as an example.
• Rotate dakuten (濁点 = ゙) slightly. It currently feels very vertical.
• The lead-in strokes and flicks on some glyphs are small. Redesign. (Getting there!)
  • Check all glyphs for consistency of those components. Compare and even out.
• Adjust hiragana shapes and modify glyphs.
  • Resize some glyphs (right now they are slightly uneven – は looks big compared to あ, for instance)
• Link all horizontal glyphs to vertical.
• Create Katakana.
• Include U+1b000 (𛀀) and U+1b001 (𛀁) archaic kana glyphs, as well as the archaic form of お(於)(OpenType).
• Make extra punctuation (and add fullwidth quote marks).
• Link all new horizontal glyphs to vertical.
• The Python test file shows an error somewhere – the vertical spacing of glyphs is uneven. Find out why and fix.
• Add へのへのもへじ face as an OpenType feature ligature.

Once all full-size glyphs have been created:

• Make small kana.
• Make modified dakuten (濁点 = ゙) glyphs for ease of reading at small sizes.
• Make halfwidth glyphs.
• Create 小 verstion (all glyphs slightly scaled down).
  • Then carefully copy kana to the AlbaPrintMincho fonts to make photopolymer-suitable version.
  • Increase contrast on AlbaPrintMincho (predominantly by thinning hairlines)?

Finalising

• See the guide: http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Making_Sure_Your_Font_Works_Validation.html

Uncertainties:

Should the 点 on the ン be bigger?

To Not Do

• Don't use glyps u10FFDE to u10FFED for vertical glyphs.

Notes

Glyphs so far that need manual direction editing.

々すむロ u10FFEF

Positions

Horizontal setting small kana glyphs should be horizontally centred but moved down by 100. 84.5 - 85% size (84.5% and then broaden).

Shortcuts:

When finishing editing the font

Ctrl-A Ctrl-Shift-_ Ctrl-Shift-D

To remove overlap

Ctrl-Shift-O

How To Git

A reminder for myself of how to Git. git add . (or git add -A) git commit git push