Font Development Best Practices

Technical guidance regarding font development and production

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  2. 1 Introduction
  3. 1.1 Referencing Guidelines
  4. 1.2 Style Guidelines
  5. 1.3 Background Knowledge
  6. 2 Source Formats
  7. 2.2 UFO
  8. 3 Font Metadata
  9. 3.1 Font Naming
  10. 3.2 Versioning
  11. 3.3 Design Metrics
  12. 3.4 Line Metrics
  13. 3.6 Unicode Ranges
  14. 4 Glyph Metadata
  15. 4.1 Characters and Glyphs
  16. 4.2 Encoding glyphs below U+0020 SPACE
  17. 4.3 Glyph Naming
  18. 4.4 Adobe Glyph List
  19. 4.6 Encoding
  20. 5 Glyph Construction
  21. 5.4 Composite Glyphs
  22. 5.4.8 Composite Tools
  23. 6 Shaping and Rendering
  24. 6.3 OpenType
  25. 6.5 User Interface (UI) Strings
  26. 7 Optimization
  27. 8 Testing
  28. 8.8.2 Using Browsers for no-install font testing
  29. 9 Production and Distribution
  30. 9.9 Copyright and Licensing
  31. 10 Environments
  32. 11 Tools
  33. 11.5 Python-based Tools
  34. 12 Script Specific