Experience with OpenType Font Production
Sivan Toledo, Zvika Rosenberg · 2003
The article describes the production of about 200 Hebrew OpenType fonts with advanced typographiclayoutfeatures. TheproductionprojectwasconductedforMasterFont,alargecommercial font foundry in Israel, which produces and sells over 1400 Hebrew fonts. The production project had two main objectives: to convert Hebrew fonts with complex diacritic support from an older format to OpenType, and to streamline the font production process at the foundry. The article describes font technology background, the objectives and constraints of the project, the tools that are available, and the final conversion and production process. The article also describes our conclusions from the project, and in particular our conclusions concerning font production processes and tools, and the OpenType format.