I’ve successfully created a few icon fonts for my websites and the Inkscape FontForge approach as outlined in this how-to is pretty solid, and if you’re used to using software such as Inkscape, it’s also pretty easy too. Here’s the steps I take: Preparation (using Inkscape in this example) Open the Inkscape document that holds … Read more
JetBrains Mono NL is the no-ligature version of JetBrains Mono font. In some editors you may have difficulty disabling font ligatures (although some popular editors like Sublime Text, VS Code do have the option). If you don’t want font ligature, you can simply use the NL version.
By default, JavaFX 8 uses modena.css to set the LCD anti aliasing, which doesn’t seem to smooth out fonts in some cases. When the font size is larger than 80 px, the AA technique switches to grey scale AA (for performance reasons). So, to achieve smooth edges at any size, grey scale AA should be … Read more
It is probably just a unicode character. In my terminal, this works: $ echo -e “Hello, \xF0\x9F\x8D\xBA” Hello, 🍺
FontSquirrel’s Webfont generator makes it very easy to reduce a font’s filesize. Upload your font Choose Expert… Choose which glyphs to include Press Download Your Kit I was able to take a 263kb font down to 34kb.
In SwiftUI, at this point we can not change the navigationBarTitle font directly, but you can change navigationBar appearance like this, struct YourView: View { init() { //Use this if NavigationBarTitle is with Large Font UINavigationBar.appearance().largeTitleTextAttributes = [.font : UIFont(name: “Georgia-Bold”, size: 20)!] //Use this if NavigationBarTitle is with displayMode = .inline //UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [.font … Read more
A bit of a hack but works (doing the other direction is left as an exercise to the reader). extension UIFont { class func preferredFont(from font: Font) -> UIFont { let uiFont: UIFont switch font { case .largeTitle: uiFont = UIFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle: .largeTitle) case .title: uiFont = UIFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle: .title1) case .title2: uiFont = UIFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle: .title2) case … Read more
TTF font files has the following MIME type: font/ttf. Before February 2017: TTF does not have a MIME type assigned. You’ll have to use the more general application/octet-stream, which is used to indicate binary data with no assigned MIME type.
Until now this option is not available. The current version is Tesseract 5.
Assuming that Windows doesn’t really know how to deal with TTC files (which I honestly find strange), you can “split” the combined fonts in an easy way if you use fontforge. The steps are: Download the file. Unzip it (e.g., unzip “STHeiti Medium.ttc.zip”). Load Fontforge. Open it with Fontforge (e.g., File > Open). Fontforge will … Read more