Change Font Family, Rename Font

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2013-08
  • Axonn

    How can I change a font's Family? I have 4 fonts belonging to the same family and I wish to separate them.

    Also, I would also want to rename the Font itself.

    A simple file name change is NOT enough.

    I'm looking for a free tool to do this, but came out empty handed after Googling a bit. All Font "studios" demand money.

    I should specify that I need to do this in the Operating System itself, so I need to modify the TTF/OTF/actual font file.

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  • Area 51

    Any special reason for changing the font details? (just curious...)

    anyway i found this little tool: http://fontforge.org/ (Which is cross platform and open source!)

    hope it helps :)


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  • Thomas L Holaday

    I prefer serif to sans serif fonts for body text, and I want distinct ell, one, capital eye, vertical, zero, and capital oh characters (l, 1 ,I, |, 0, O).

    Distinct parentheses, curly braces, and angle brackets ({<>}) are a bonus.

    The display will always be conventional middle-end 1280 x 1024 monitors.

    Commercial solutions are acceptable.

    Suggestions on how to search for such fonts are welcome.

    Any problem-domain-specific vocabulary would be useful. Is there a name for fonts that have distinct glyphs?


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  • 8088

    Would recommend heartily one of my favorite font - Adobe Garamond Pro. :) Lovely, absolutely lovely booktype font that is bound to inspire old-school confidence in anyone.

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  • dlamblin

    There must be hundreds of fonts that fit your requirements, selecting just one is down to your personal preferences.

    Just listing from the ones I have installed:

    1. Baskersville
    2. Chaparral Pro
    3. Cochin (l and 1 are pretty close...)
    4. DejaVu Serif
    5. Didot
    6. Georgia (super distinct, digits are smaller)
    7. Hoefler Text (same distinction)
    8. LYNN (l and 1 are close again)
    9. Minion Pro
    10. Palatino (pretty wide but legible)
    11. Times and Times New Roman (l and 1 are the closest yet... so probably not good)
    12. Adobe Caslon Pro
    13. Adobe Garamond Pro

    Of these I'd only rule out Times and Times New Roman.

    There's a chance that looking at myfont.com's serif section with the sample text "1Il| ()<>{} nm uvw UVW S5 gq9 oO0" set to fit to width could help you. But after a while they all look the same. You could go with the super distinct OCR-A type font if you didn't want something pretty.