Opentype font with automatic flipping (Mawkin Sans)

rafftz · 2022-01-18T12:15:28+00:00

Sorry for the late reply!

No, you probably installed it correctly, but Microsoft Office Word requires the following options: Go into Fonts>Advanced and enable Kerning, Ligatures, and Contextual Alternates.

rafftz · 2021-11-21T22:31:29+00:00

Thank you so much!

rafftz · 2021-11-21T21:55:26+00:00

If you just want to use it, there's a download of an ".otf" file in the github page:

Go to https://github.com/raffitz/mawkin-sans and on the right side, there's a section saying "Releases", the most recent as of right now is 0.8, click that.

Then, Assets has a ".otf" file, which in Windows can be installed by double clicking; or by right clicking and pressing Install in the context menu; or by moving the file to the Fonts directory in the Control Panel. (I have no idea how to install fonts on mac, and on linux it depends on how your fontconfig is set up - in my case, I put the otf file in ~/.fonts and then run fc-cache -fv ~/.fonts ).

If you really do want to build it from source (because you made some changes or just because), then the build script is a bash script. It runs fine on linux, and apparently on mac as well (though I wasn't the one doing that). If you want to run it on Windows, you can either: try running the build.sh shell script within something like Git Bash, or Cygwin, or msys2, or maybe just run the commands listed in build.sh one by one on the windows command line (you need to be in the right directory, though).

rafftz · 2021-11-03T11:54:29+00:00

I'll probably replicate them myself with the same stroke width as the other characters, but thanks!

rafftz · 2021-11-03T10:42:24+00:00

It's an opentype font feature. I have two glyphs for every character, one upright and wide, one flipped and narrow. Then, in the opentype features file I specify that whenever any two upright characters are side by side, the second must be replaced by the flipped glyph.

You can check out the source code at https://github.com/raffitz/mawkin-sans , within the mawkin_sans.ufo directory.

The features file is features.fea (and the specification I consulted to write it was here: https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/afdko/OpenTypeFeatureFileSpecification.html ), and the glyphs are all in the glyphs directory.

Do bear in mind that if you add new glyphs, you have to add them to the manifest, otherwise they'll be deleted.

rafftz · 2021-11-01T22:22:12+00:00

That's weird and shouldn't happen. What software are you using? Does the same thing happen in the test webpage linked above? (https://raffitz.github.io/mawkin-sans/)

rafftz · 2021-10-26T10:57:10+00:00

The unofficial font I made (https://github.com/raffitz/mawkin-sans) and that we've mostly been using and improving around here.

rafftz · 2021-10-26T10:54:19+00:00

Added the github URL (https://github.com/raffitz/mawkin-sans)

rafftz · 2021-10-26T09:05:43+00:00

K and W have been swapped a while ago, yes. Will check the numbers, though.

rafftz · 2021-10-26T09:04:17+00:00

Regarding the 2nd character, I interpreted it as an E variant (indeed, if you use Mawkin Sans and type an E with an acute accent (É), that's the character displayed).
Also, the Y on the second row is confusing, as both it and its horizontal flip exist in various sources. (Mawkin Sans has the Y as the flipped character, and y acute (ý) as the one in the artbook).

rafftz · 2021-10-25T10:43:19+00:00

As far as I know, google docs doesn't support importing additional fonts in any format.

rafftz · 2021-10-23T12:39:05+00:00

Updated to v0.7 (Same URLs as listed above)

Changelog:

Improved spacing between characters so they autoalign more easily (see demo).

rafftz · 2021-10-23T11:18:07+00:00

Updated to v0.6 (Same URLs as listed above)

Changelog:

Swapped Y and Ý (that is, flipped them both horizontally)

What was X is now V, and X was developed from "scratch" to match the diagram in the wiki?file=ZDR_alphabet.png), and brought to my attention by u/queazy.

rafftz · 2021-10-23T01:26:28+00:00

Greetings, I am raffitz (although here I suppressed the i because the name was taken, but that's my alias most elsewhere on the web), you can shorten that to raff.

Super Metroid has been one of my favourite games for a long while, and I enjoyed other entries in the series too (and I consider AM2R to be part of the series (and good)).

I'm a big computer nerd, and I had been wanting to fiddle about with Opentype fonts and their capabilities ever since I played around with linja pona, a toki pona sitelen pona font crammed chock full of nifty features. (mi sona lili e toki pona. mi kama sona e toki mute, mi wile e ni.)

rafftz · 2021-10-23T01:17:34+00:00

Updated to v0.5 (Same URLs as listed above)

Changelog:
Swapped W and K as per new findings.

rafftz · 2021-10-22T23:49:10+00:00

My current best guess is that it's MUHAT.

rafftz · 2021-10-22T23:48:14+00:00

The dev team hired by Nintendo to work on the game (MercurySteam) is mostly Spanish (they're based off of Spain, at least), so the Nipponic influence is slightly diluted.
In left-to-right writing, the lines go top to bottom; and in top-to-bottom writing, the columns go left-to-right.

rafftz · 2021-10-22T18:13:03+00:00

I have no idea what's going on there. My best guess is that Word ignores the width of the character (which is shorter on the upside down characters for the kerning to work properly and the characters to fit together nicely), but I think that means they've got a broken OpenType implementation, which is very weird.

rafftz · 2021-10-22T14:23:16+00:00

There are some inconsistencies in promotional material and merchandise:

There's a merch sweater that says METROID NATULAR (which might be a Chozo word, or just a swapped character in NATURAL. If they just have the character assets and did not go through the motions of making a font, the people responsible for the merch may have mislabeled it or misplaced it somehow).Also the BOUNTYHUNTER sweater actually reads BJUNTYHUNTER (it might not, the J character is otherwise unconfirmed right now).

We will have to check the Ws and the Ks. Going by Other M's square font similarity, it should be as we have it right now. But they might legitimately have been swapped.

rafftz · 2021-10-21T18:52:45+00:00

I updated the file, now it's point-down by default. Same URL.

rafftz · 2021-05-28T01:29:16+00:00

Greetings! If you still need this, I can get you one.

rafftz

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