I have to support Japanese glyphs (some of them of course), Cyrillic and Latin ones. I have designed the Latin glyphs to better much the style of the game but I am not able to design the other family glyphs.
I would like to use a font editor to put all the glyphs I need in a unique font for Defold. I have tried FontForge but it doesn’t run well on my Mac.
Could someone please suggest me a reliable font editor to mix glyphs?
You can try running windows in a virtual machine.
Or, you can try using Wine to run your tool.
I use https://glyphsapp.com/ on macOS which is fantastic (but pricey). There is a ‘mini’ version which is a lot cheaper that might meet your needs.
And Indeed Glyphs is beautiful on my Mac! Loving it! I may buy the mini version… But I don’t understand how to copy glyphs from one font to another. @bryanrieger do you know how to do that? Thanks!
If you make a new font you can copy/paste glyphs from an existing font into a new font, which will add it as a new glyph (ie: A.001, etc.) You can also copy/paste the geometry from a glyph into a placeholder glyph (ie. A, B, C, etc) in the new font which saves creating and managing a new glyph. One problem you’re likely to run into is that the font metrics will vary between fonts so you’ll need to adjust these to find a balance that works for your combined font.
@bryanrieger Thanks so much for your help!
But I cannot copy TO an existing font? The mini-version does not show the Japanese category, this could make hard to copy FROM the font with the Japanese glyphs to a new font. I was indeed trying to copy from my latin font to the Japanese font just substituting the Latin glyphs…
I can copy from one font to another using the full version of Glyphs, but I’m not sure about Mini.
FontForge is a great tool for font manipulation. I use it to strip unnecessary glyphs from fonts to reduce the resulting font resource file size in a Defold game. Most importantly, I automatized that via a built-in scripting language.
I recommend you to try FontForge again but to use it mostly from the command line. Check out this example of font merging - https://superuser.com/a/1594984
@aglitchman Thank you for your help!
Indeed I have tried to follow the example at the link you sent me. But FontForge keeps crashing on my Mac. It is extremely slow and its interface is mostly broken. I haven’t tried it by command line but I am not an expert of using tools via command line…
@Pkeod Thanks for the suggestion. I used Glyphs (wonderful on Mac!) and I copied all latin extended glyphs by hand (!) from my font to the font with japanese and cyrillic. It took me some hours but it is done! 