From the course: Learning Type Design
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What glyphs are needed?
- [Instructor] A font can contain any number of glyphs, thousands or just one. The glyphs you include will depend on who's going to use it. Is your font strictly for personal use? Or do you plan to sell it, or give it away to others? If it's just for you, you can include only the glyphs you need. But if you plan to sell it or give it away to others, you should include at least the basic character set. But what is a basic character set? Glyphs are grouped into different kinds. Alphanumerics, including both letter and numbers, and two standard ligatures, the F-I and F-L. Standard punctuation, including brackets and dashes. Accents and accent characters. And symbols, including reference marks and math glyphs. It can be confusing to keep track of all these glyphs. Luckily, there's an organization called the Unicode Consortium that collects and assigns codes for every glyph on the planet. Unicode organizes glyphs into sets according to their purpose. For instance, there's a Unicode set for…
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