Standard practice for unicase font.

YOTS16 Mar 2008

I'm building a unicase display font with only uppercase letters and I wanted to know what is the standard practice for key inputs? For example should I create it so that when you press SHIFT + A you get the cap A or set it so even if you just press "a" you get the cap "A"?

Stephen Coles16 Mar 2008#

If there is only one style of cap (no alternates) it's preferred that both the lowercase and uppercase slots are filled, even if the glyph is the same.

YOTS16 Mar 2008#

Aawesome thanks. Here is another question. I'm using TypeTool, should I put the characters in both the lowercase and uppercase slots or is there a way to remap the lowercase keystroke to be identical to the uppercase?

YOTS16 Mar 2008#

Nevermind with the second question. I figured out how to easily copy and paste the glyphs between slots. Thanks again.

Stephen Coles16 Mar 2008#

BTW, Unicase usually refers to a typeface that has a single case but uses some upper- and some lowercase forms.

YOTS16 Mar 2008#

Thanks for the correction. That's pretty confusing cause to me uni means one. Is there a name for a font that only contains one case?

dezcom16 Mar 2008#

Titling

ChrisL

Nick Shinn16 Mar 2008#

Monocase.

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