Use SIL's Fallback Font

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Use SIL's Fallback Font #28

Closed davelab6 closed 9 years ago

davelab6 commented 10 years ago

A user told me,

I loaded my font into www.impallari.com/testing/, but unfortunately it was very difficult to view in isolation as the “default” font was still representing the missing glyphs that I have not worked on yet.

Using a non-system fallback font, like http://scripts.sil.org/UnicodeBMPFallbackFont

impallari commented 10 years ago

This is already implemented in the GitHub version of the Testing page. There is an option in the Open Type panel that let's you choose the fallback font, and you can choose between the one from SIL and another from ADOBE. It's not yet implemented in the Impallari hosted version. I will implement it in the hosted version, but only for specific tabs (like the one that shows the missing glyphs), but in a different way, and using a custom font created specifically for the occasion.

impallari commented 10 years ago

By "implementing it in a different way using a custom font created specifically for the occasion" I mean that:

Using the SIL font will present the user with boxes full of numbers. This is useful for the font-nerds that knows about Unicode, but not useful for the average user.
Using the Adobe version will just ignore the missing glyphs and show a /space instead, also not useful for this purpose.

What I want is a font that shows the missing glyph inside a box, but rendered as it should be. This will make obvious both things:

The presence of missing glyphs (instead of Adobe no-tofu font)
and which ones they are (showing the correct glyph representation instead of showing a number).

davelab6 commented 10 years ago

I think there shouldn't be a difference between the Github and Impallari-hosted version. You can use www.drone.io to automatically deploy the Github version to your server on each commit :)

I think having a GNU FreeFont or Noto based custom one sounds great, but I'd like to keep the option in the panel of switching between the 3 :)

weiweihuanghuang commented 10 years ago

screen shot 2014-08-20 at 3 20 36 pm I don't see the fallback option in the GitHub version?

adrientetar commented 10 years ago

I would like to see this added to impallari.com, right now it's hard to work when there are external glyphs across those of my font, esp. but not limited to the world scripts tab.

impallari commented 9 years ago

Closed here, but continues in https://github.com/impallari/Font-Testing-Page/issues/41