Adding some IPA characters

[Kelvin Song]

Hi, I've added a bunch of IPA letters to the Liberation Serif font.
Here's a picture of them:
[image: Inline image 1]
IPA letters are more than just mirror versions of regular latin letters, so
I tried to make them "real", following the serif rules, etc. For example
the /ɹ/ letter has only one serif on top, and the crossbar on /ə/ is at the
same height as the one on /e/.  I've only done the Regular weight, but if
you're interested I can do italic, bold, etc.

The TTF and SFD source are attached. It's very rough—the letter outlines
aren't fused (to make editing easier), and there might be some
clockwise/counterclockwise errors. The letters displayed fine in Inkscape
though.

—Love, Kelvin.

On 23 July 2013 07:52, Kelvin Song <kelvinsong10(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi, I've added a bunch of IPA letters to the Liberation Serif
> font.
>  
That's great.


>  Here's a picture of them:
>  [image: Inline image 1]
>  IPA letters are more than just mirror versions of regular latin letters,
>  so I tried to make them "real", following the serif rules, etc. For example
>  the /ɹ/ letter has only one serif on top, and the crossbar on /ə/ is at the
>  same height as the one on /e/.  I've only done the Regular weight, but if
>  you're interested I can do italic, bold, etc.
>  
Yeah.
Since Liberation serif family providing 4 weights we should apply changes
in other weights as well. Do providing me Italic, Bold and Bold Italic is
required.


>  The TTF and SFD source are attached. It's very rough—the letter outlines
>  aren't fused (to make editing easier), and there might be some
>  clockwise/counterclockwise errors. The letters displayed fine in Inkscape
>  though.
>  
I will remove error if there any before merging.
In between for this work you can refer to Liberation fonts version 2.00.1
it has IPA characters available but we cant add it to Liberation 1.07.2
because of license incompatibilities.


Or may be try using Liberation 2.00.1 instead...
https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/

I hope so you are aware regarding Liberation fonts license. And you are
ready to submit your work under
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:LiberationFontLicense?rd=Licensi...
this license?

Best Regards,
Pravin Satpute

[Denis Jacquerye]

Hi,

Cool work Kelvin.

There are some fixes that would make the glyphs better:
1. The following have unmerged outlines, removing overlap would be better
uni0255, uni0256, uni025A, uni025D, uni025F, uni0260, uni0268, uni026B,
uni02C6, uni026E, uni0275,
uni0284, uni0287, uni0289, uni028F, uni0290, uni0291, uni0292, uni0293,
uni029B, uni02A1, uni02A2,
uni02A3, uni02A4, uni02A5, uni02A6, uni02A7, uni02A8, uni02AA, uni02AB,
uni02AC
2. The following have missing extreme points
uni025B, uni025C, uni025D, uni025E, uni0284, uni0297, uni029A
# Actually those 2 first issues are easy to detect if you validate your
font in FontForge.

3. uni0263 should have top serifs like v, it is too much like the Greek
gamma otherwise.
4. The following have descenders in first half of ligature when they should
not
uni026E, uni02A4
5. The loop of uni0286, uni029D shouldn't have a serif
6. The bottom two extreme points of uni028A should not be interpolatable
(in FontForge: Point > Can't be interpolated)

Cheers,


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:10 AM, pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com
<pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:

>  On 23 July 2013 07:52, Kelvin Song <kelvinsong10(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > Hi, I've added a bunch of IPA letters to the Liberation Serif font.
> >
>
>  That's great.
>
>
> >  Here's a picture of them:
> > [image: Inline image 1]
> > IPA letters are more than just mirror versions of regular latin letters,
> > so I tried to make them "real", following the serif rules, etc. For
> example
> > the /ɹ/ letter has only one serif on top, and the crossbar on /ə/ is at the
> > same height as the one on /e/.  I've only done the Regular weight, but if
> > you're interested I can do italic, bold, etc.
> >
>
>  Yeah.
>  Since Liberation serif family providing 4 weights we should apply changes
>  in other weights as well. Do providing me Italic, Bold and Bold Italic is
>  required.
>
>
> >
> > The TTF and SFD source are attached. It's very rough—the letter outlines
> > aren't fused (to make editing easier), and there might be some
> > clockwise/counterclockwise errors. The letters displayed fine in Inkscape
> > though.
> >
>
>  I will remove error if there any before merging.
>  In between for this work you can refer to Liberation fonts version 2.00.1
>  it has IPA characters available but we cant add it to Liberation 1.07.2
>  because of license incompatibilities.
>
>
>  Or may be try using Liberation 2.00.1 instead...
>  https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/
>
>  I hope so you are aware regarding Liberation fonts license. And you are
>  ready to submit your work under
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:LiberationFontLicense?rd=Licensi...
>  this license?
>
>  Best Regards,
>  Pravin Satpute
>
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