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Hello

I'm looking to create a new font, or maybe just tweak an existing one. Are there any good os x utilities (preferably freeware or shareware) to create or edit fonts?

My main reason for this is I'm looking for an Irish Gaelic font, and the only one I could find cost like 35 pounds or something from a guy in Ireland, I think it's mainly for scholarly publication. I just want it because my girlfriend spells her name with a dot above the b (making it an 'aspirated' consonant or something), instead of having an 'h' follow it as is typical nowadays. So if anyone could point me toward an appropriate font that would be helpful too.

thanks

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[Phoenix1701]

You already have the font you need: Lucida Grande. (Certain others on your system may also work, however, if you want a serif variation.) Here's an example of a Gaelic word spelled in the old style:

ḃfuil

That probably will look wrong on Windows (surprise surprise), but if you're using Mac OS X you should see a b with a dot above it. I got this by using Mac OS X's built in character palette, available by turning it on under (of all places) International → Input Menu in System Preferences. Then just find the character (its Unicode value is 0x1E03, if that helps any) and double-click it to insert it into the current (Cocoa) application. TextEdit works well for this; Photoshop and Microsoft Word do not. Lucida Grande appears to be the only font on my system that includes that character, but you might be able to find others online... just search for "Unicode fonts".

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Originally posted by Phoenix1701:
You already have the font you need: Lucida Grande. (Certain others on your system may also work, however, if you want a serif variation.) Here's an example of a Gaelic word spelled in the old style:

ḃfuil

That probably will look wrong on Windows (surprise surprise), but if you're using Mac OS X you should see a b with a dot above it. I got this by using Mac OS X's built in character palette, available by turning it on under (of all places) International → Input Menu in System Preferences. Then just find the character (its Unicode value is 0x1E03, if that helps any) and double-click it to insert it into the current (Cocoa) application. TextEdit works well for this; Photoshop and Microsoft Word do not. Lucida Grande appears to be the only font on my system that includes that character, but you might be able to find others online... just search for "Unicode fonts".

Hey, that's great! Thank you!