Make your font work in Windows
19 May 2022
Have you also been trying to fix Windows with your font? Welcome to the club.
- Vertical Metrics:
- winAscent, winDescent cause clipping
- use TTFAutohint Windows Compatibility bit
- charset Win 1252, and all typeable characters you expect on the enduser keyboards, otherwise risk fallback font substitution
- prefer TTF over CFF
- embedding requires TTF
- performance is much better
- style linking (Naming tutorial):
- RIBBI family: only R will show in menu, BBI accessible via B and I buttons
- Style names for RIBBI: Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic, do not be creative
- this is the logic of Word menus, deal with it: accept that you cannot change Word into InDesign with some magical hack in your font
- OT features and kerning:
- none of this in PowerPoint
- Word: educate your users to turn it on Ctrl-D (Cmd-D on the Mac)
- Word hack:
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feature, but not recommended - for kerning to work, there should be at least one other GPOS feature in the font (mark or mkmk will do)