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Abstract

Pitfalls of Multi-script Font Design

Joshua Hadley - Agfa Monotype Corporation

Intended Audience: Managers, Marketers, Software Engineers, Font Designers, Content Developers, Graphic Designers
Session Level: Beginner, Intermediate

As the number of defined code points in The Unicode Standard grows, there is a corresponding desire to have fonts that can display the characters. However, there are many unforeseen consequences of packing numerous characters from different scripts -- many of which have widely varying properties and behaviors -- into a single font file. We'll examine some of the more common and vexing issues we've encountered in building large multi-script fonts, as well as share some observations of how customers have implemented them. We'll also show some examples and suggest some practical workarounds.

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