They can then use the design fea-tures embedded into these struc-ture elements (stem width, behavior of curved parts, contrast between thick and thin shape parts, and so on) to design the font's remaining characters., Today's industrial font description standards such as Adobe Type 1 or TrueType represent typographic characters by their shape outlines, because of the simplicity of digitiz-ing the contours of well-designed, large-size master characters., How-ever, outline characters only implic-itly incorporate the designer'sĬhinese characters have a complex and hierarchical graphical structureĬarrying both semantic and phonetic information. To create a new typeface family, type designers gen-erally start by designing a few key characters, such as o, h, p, and v, incorporating the most important structure elements such as vertical stems, round parts, diagonal bars, arches, and serifs (see Figure 1).

Supervised by Javier Sola from Open Institute.Design tradition, the rules related to visual appearance, and the design ideas of a skilled character designer., The typographic design process is structured and sys-tematic: letterforms are visually related in weight, con-trast, space, alignment, and style. Open Khmer School typeface is a collaboration between Xavier Dupré and Sovichet Tep. Please find the Changelog.md file in this repository. We are now converting all source files into Glyphs format, and enhancing the path outlines and master compatibility for future interpolations.Ĭurrently, all masters in the source files are yet compatible. This typeface was originally designed in FontLab 5 and engineered in Glyphs. In order to solve this, we have come to using Latin character set, and writing OpenType features to imitate the Unicode ways (ligature, subconsonant, etc.), except the pref and pres features.

As a ligature usually exists between a consonant and a post-base vowel (U+17B6, U+17C4, or U+17C5), selecting the vowel in any word processing program is very tricky (as the syllable will be selected, not a character).

In this project, we need more flexibility for highlighting characters in a syllable, especially in ligature forms. As its name implies, it is for making tracing paths.īesides the Normal and Dotted variants, which are in Unicode, Highlight is created in the legacy way using Latin character set. Open Khmer School comes with three variants: Normal (Unicode)ĭotted variant is very important in this project. The height and width of this typeface is higher and wider than the Open Khmer Text (in development.) Styles Open Khmer School is one of the Khmer typefaces initiated by Open Insitute, with the support from RTI (Research Triangle Institute), for producing handwriting books for children.

Khmer dotted font