The answer is... I don't know :-) Maybe both? What do you think would be best?
Done! Thanks :-)
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 ...
![Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/53b082fe-9f9e-43c4-a2f5-a34d0d99bcf2.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
I've built a new font! Thoughts and feedback on my approach very welcome.
Thanks! I'm chuffed with how they turned out.
Nah, that's just me not adjusting the positioning of the apostrophe. Lots of clean-up to do :-)
Oh! That is very clever. Thank you.
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.
Cheers. The code was cobbled together by me from various random tutorials and things I had laying around.
Cheers! I'm hoping to add some more letters and tidy up the rest when I have more time.
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.
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 ...
![Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio](https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/0117b8d4-633f-47eb-a350-5070e3937462.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
I've built a new font! Thoughts and feedback on my approach very welcome.
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