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Show threadedentJul 30, 2023
Done! Thanks :-)
edentJul 30, 2023

Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio

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

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/shakespeare-serif-a-new-font-based-on-the-first-folio/

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 worth seeing if anyone else has tried this before. I found David Pustansky's First Folio Font. There's not much info about it, other than it's based on the 1623 folio. It's a nice font, but missing …

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Show threadedentJul 29, 2023
Thanks! I'm chuffed with how they turned out.
Show threadedentJul 29, 2023
I have a (very low) fixed tariff with them, but I'll move to agile when it ends.
Show threadedentJul 29, 2023
Nah, that's just me not adjusting the positioning of the apostrophe. Lots of clean-up to do :-)
Show threadedentJul 29, 2023
Oh! That is very clever. Thank you.
Show threadedentJul 29, 2023

Both! Unicode has some support for as-is ligatures. For example fi 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.

Sans Bullshit Sans — Leveraging the synergy of ligatures

A font that'll get rid of all the bullshit.

Show threadedentJul 29, 2023
Cheers. The code was cobbled together by me from various random tutorials and things I had laying around.
Show threadedentJul 29, 2023
Cheers! I'm hoping to add some more letters and tidy up the rest when I have more time.
Show threadedentJul 29, 2023
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.