I still don’t understand the capabilities of using special characters to have a realistic sense of what the font can be. This is a special purpose and the users will know that it is limited font. The purpose of the font though is to design phonetic worksheets, and show examples of phonetic analysis. I imagine it is true that the more the font has normal lower-case and upper-case characters then the less the user will have to switch back and forth among fonts. Thank you Bhikkhu for taking the time to reply. I am very grateful to anyone of you who will be kind enough to assist me. Tomorrow I will read the instruction guide and start playing with it. I have installed FontCreator but have not yet used it. I’m open to it but a Unicode font without software to use it may be better. I am not sure about the keyboard driver-software. I’m targeting teachers and parents to help their children read and spell with more “phonetic awareness” (as they would say in phonics).īhikkuh, I like the idea of using the Bitstream Vera font from which to modify into this font set. Teachers who use this font would have to understand the 44 sounds really well. To distribute a highly specialized font like this would be meaningless without directions of how it is used and can be a teaching tool for reading and phonics. I’m thinking of writing a book on the subject and having the font accompany the book. I’d want to be the copyright owner and decide how to distribute it. I’d love to make this font myself but may want to hire someone. That’s it in a nut-shell though I could be missing something off-hand. The two double oo’s with breve and macron can be on a dead key with easy access for the right pinky finger. The top row of keys in the keyboard could be used for the single dot, double dot and circumflex vowels. The following consonants would need a slash through them: wtpsdfghklzcbnm Students would need to have access to an h with a slash through it to represent that it is silent in some words. For example the word ghost has a silent h. Here are most of the special diacritical marks that this font would need:Ĭonsonants would be lower case in their normal keys but their shift-upper case would be their lower case form with a slash through it to represent a silent letter. The 5 vowels would have the breve as the lower case character and the macron as the shift-upper case character (but the shift-upper case characters would really be lower case vowels with their mark). It would not need punctuation marks or numbers because it will be designed to be used for phonetic exercises and not for normal writing purposes. This font would not use any upper case letters only lower case. They do a good job but teachers need to get their hands on a font that makes it easy to type those markings. Dictionary Pronunciation Keys are an example of trying to represent the 44 sounds. Some of the 44 sounds used to speak English require diacritical marks to be written as sounds for teaching purposes, and no one font has all those marks (for English). A font with diacritical marks would help express this. Basically this font set would be an English Phonetic font.įor example, the letters ea represent 3 sounds short e in head, long e in each and long a in steak. This is not taught in public schools that well and is a part of phonics. What I want is a font that will make it easy for teachers to prepare lessons that teach to students the 44 sounds in our language and the 70 letter combinations we use to spell those sounds. I just came back today to see if I had any luck. Using will show you how your text will look in all of the fonts installed on your machine in a really effective browser page layout.Thank you for replying. Oh, Google fonts provide hundreds of free fonts or check out is really useful too including some nice search & display capabilities. Watch out for sharp pokey points - on steel they can become razor sharp. One handy trick is to convert the text to paths and then change the stroke width to the kerf size (about 0.055") and you’ll see what the cut-out will look like. Papyrus comes to mind Any font with extremely fine detail flourishes or stroke portions can lose those details when the plasma’s kerf is accounted for.īlocky fonts, stenciled ones for folks who don’t want to manually add bridges are very safe.ĭecorative fonts need to be scaled up to be effective and care in just how many swoopy flourishes are part of the letters needs to be watched. There are some that just won’t work well though.
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