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silnrsi / font-charis

Fonts for languages and writing systems that use the Latin and Cyrillic scripts
https://software.sil.org/charis/
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Need larger IPA diacritics #10

Closed sharoncorrell closed 1 year ago

sharoncorrell commented 2 years ago

We are using Charis for ScriptSource, and running into a problem in the phoneme/grapheme system. Some of the IPA diacritics are so small that they are really hard to read. It's an obstacle specifically to one of our teams who would like to use the RTR feature for some of their data, but the "right tack below" is almost indistinguishable from similar symbols.

Would there be any way for some of the diacritics to enlarged? Or could somebody build me a one-off font just for ScriptSource with the modifications? (I'd be willing to do the changes, but the build process is beyond me. Or is there a way to make changes somehow without having to rebuild?)

Specifically: 0318 - left tack below 0319 - right tack below 0320 - under-bar 031F - plus sign below 0329 - vertical bar below

Also: 0325 - ring 030A - ring 0303 - tilde 0330 - tilde below

OR - does anybody know of a font with bigger diacritics?

jvgaultney commented 2 years ago

Be sure you're using the latest version of Charis, as the hinting is improved and small shapes will likely be clearer. Those diacritics (except ring) are proportionally larger in Gentium - again use the latest version.

Making a special version of Charis for ScriptSource is possible but it locks us into a cycle of producing a unique version every time we update the fonts. It would be better to add a larger diacritics feature for these (and maybe other diacs) although that would take a while to design and produce (due to many other issues in the queue).

Ping me when you get in the office and we can chat about the options.