The larger line-height of OTF always seemed intended to me: 'The large x-height + wide aperture + low contrast design combined with PostScript hinting/hint replacement programs and a TrueType instruction set make it highly legible at commonly used source code text'. I prefer the larger OTF over TTF. Unfortunately no Windows available for a side-by-side comparison with Linux. Both TTF and OTF baskets contain a big bunch of adorable kittens (and by that, I mean letters, numbers, and punctuation). With both types of kitten-basket, you can pull out a set of kittens, line.
Hi Sara, you may be using a font that was designed by another foundry – some Magpie fonts have swashes but they don’t connect between the words. If you’re working with one of my fonts and would like to have swashes before/after the words, you can just type in a space before and after the word. This tells your program “Hey, I want a swashed letter here.” If you are using a font by another designer, you may want to contact them directly to see how they’ve coded their Opentype features. Each designer does things a little differently. П™‚.Kimia Sadeghi says. Thanks for this great tutorial!
That’s just Microsoft for you; making counter-intuitive decisions. I was using Word as one does, but noticed that kerning was disabled. I’ve been learning about this stuff recently; I’m making my first font and beginning to learn the craft, (FontForge for the win!) and things like that bother me, now. Testing it with Georgia made me think it wasn’t working, but it turns out it was just the typeface.
I hope it’s just my version! The font here seems to have kerning; is it Georgia?.Rob says. Hi there,I am using “adelicia” font from creative market, and I am using Word for Mac 2011. I followed your directions exactly, and the swatches DID work, but only for a little while.now, I can see the stylistic set variations in the preview window, but it no longer carries over to my document. I’ve tried everything I could think of–adding a space before/after my words, disabling all of my autocorrect functions, restarting my computer, checking to see if it would show up in print preview, and even trying a different computerbut to no avail. Can you think of anything else I should try? I would appreciate your input!Thank you!.Jess says.
A few things. #1 — Your font color on this page is so light grey it hurts. A little more contrast would go a long way.
#2 — Just seeing a month marker (and no year) almost made me immediately leave the page as it is infuriating to search data that may be 10 years or older, and thus irrelevant in terms of upgrades with computers. Luckily I use Office 2010 and that was my only clue this article may be applicable. #3 — You give no information about how to actually install OTF fonts, where the main folder is full of TTF. So.Jess says. Hi Jeff, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
You are correct: this post explains how to use, not install, Opentype fonts in Microsoft Word 2010. There are better, newer tutorials out there for newer, better versions of Word, and for installing fonts on the multitude of Windows & Mac OS versions.
That said, this article was part of a blog that is no longer online, though I’ve left this page up out of courtesy for folks who may be Googling how to hack Opentype support in legacy software. If you’re in need of additional support I’d recommend checking out the Word troubleshooting page over at Microsoft HQ.Jess says.