From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:00:04 -0400 Message-ID: <9ab217670907081200s5ae2ef2ape0241a49d71e9fa3@mail.gmail.com> From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Fonts Topicbox-Message-UUID: 165b4e94-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I have very little idea about these fuckers. I know there are baselines and ideas about m's and n's and kerning and whatnot. But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize that I have zero idea of how fonts are designed and packaged. Does anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting). --dho