#the file being passed around is the same ancient slightly corrupted one. i've seen similar happen w/en fonts lol | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

rubberbandballqueen · 9 months

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back on my taiwanese road font nonsense, i finally downloaded the Alleged Font (金梅粗黑體.TTF) and

discovered that the file metadata firstly claims it was last modified in 1995, which is older than i expected, but then

i opened it up in my font editor and discovered it does not use unicode to encode its glyphs (modern web standard to my knowledge), but instead the hong kong extension of big5 (old method of encoding cn/jp that allowed for quick switching btwn the different writing variants), thereby meaning that the glyphs are SORTED DIFFERENTLY than how i'm used to (dictionary order)

when checking the font information in the font editor, it apparently has no font name saved in its metadata

and also it was also created at the dawn of time i guess

#i found an open-source font that's Quite Similar but doesn't have Quite enough Character (as in personality)#it has all the glyphs for not only traditional cn but also a jp version at every weight to account for differences in their Stylistic Ideal #also i think the 金梅 font file might be a little corrupted but like with every font that's been online since the dawn of the internet #the file being passed around is the same ancient slightly corrupted one. i've seen similar happen w/en fonts lol #anyway it is Past My Bedtime!! nightnight #the worm speaks #but before i go-- *gets sniped w/a tranquilizer dart before i start picking at the minor flaws in the open source Similar Font*

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