WD-XL Lubrifont

OpenType Features

WD-XL Lubrifont has set up multiple OpenType features, let’s have a look!

ss01

First thing first: Fix this ugly X. (it’s optional!)

X

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X

liga

Now let’s play some ligatures: Chinese dash usually takes up the width of two characters and shown as connected, but normally dashes need to leave a gap at the left and right to prevent messing with other words (such as one, 一).
So what should we do? Here’s a suggestion: use ligatures. You need to open it in the settings.

——	>	——
———	>	———

Have you found the easter egg too?

ss18

Next up: most Chinese punctuations usually take up the space of one character width and placed at centered, but Western punctuations have proportional width (to glyph width), and thus this had affected some of the punctuations. In this font, we would like to try a new approach: putting Western punctuations in ss18 and turning on this feature in software to automatically swap out the punctuations in problem. This feature contains the ellipsis, interpunct (U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT), quotation marks, and diacritic marks.

(‘A·檬纱…’)

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(‘A·檬纱…’)

ss19/ss20

Even different regions of Chinese users place their punctuations in different places. For Simplified Chinese, most punctuations are placed at the bottom left corner, while most Traditional Chinese regions place the punctuations at the center. Thus, we have assigned ss19 and ss20 to provide ease of choice to change the punctuations as the user sees fit.
ss19: Punctuations for Simplified Chinese (cornered form).
ss20: Punctuations for Traditional Chinese (centered form).

嗨！你，好；吗？

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嗨！你，好；吗？

These option will change the punctuations that are affected in ss18 too, namely interpunct and ellipsis. For ss20 (Traditional Chinese punctuation), spacing modifier tones for bopomofo are modified to match the size of bopomofo too.

ㄓㄨˋ ㄧㄣˉ

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ㄓㄨˋ ㄧㄣˉ

ccmp/dlig

OK, let’s get serious. Hanyu pinyin, Taiwan Minnanyu Luomazi Pinyin Fang'an (or Tâi-lô) and Pe̍h-ōe-jī uses accented characters, between these Tâi-lô and Pe̍h-ōe-jī used characters that are unencoded, and thus requiring glyph compositing, ccmp to compose these glyphs. This function is on by default in most softwares, users will not need to care of these.

a̍	Ô͘	m̋	n̄	ú	È	Ň	ĭ
Ĕ	u̍	ê	ő	Ī	Ḿ	Ù	Ǎ
ǒ	ĕ	i̍	ô͘	Ő	ū	ń	m̀
ǘ	Ň	Ề	Ǖ	Ŝ	ü	ẑ	ŋ

The last row of sample is for hanyu pinyin, while the others are for Pe̍h-ōe-jī/Tâi-lô. Notice something’s wrong?

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Actually, ŋ is not in ccmp. ŋ is the shorthand form of ng ^[Source] in hanyu pinyin, thus it isn’t like the others that are a letter with a diacritical marks. However, we could not add ng into ligatures or else it will affect other languages. Thus, this font has set the shorthand ng/NG in discretionary ligatures to ease the users with simple access, while unaffecting other languages (such as suffix -ing in English). ẑ, ĉ, ŝ are also the shorthand form of zh, ch, sh respectively, and due to the same reasons they are set in dlig. This functionality requires manual setting.

TÍNG Zhǎngdà

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TÍNG Zhǎngdà

smpl/trad

Originally a fun side project font, some functionalities are tested on this font too. We will be introducing Simplified/Traditional character conversions, letting the font to convert one-to-one characters automatically (such as 語-语), while options will be provided to users for one-to-many characters. smpl (Simplified forms) will convert Traditional characters to Simplified characters, while trad (Traditional forms) will convert Simplified characters to Traditional characters.
This feature is not available in most softwares. You may try this functionality in browser at the next section.

locl

In version 2.000, we have introduced a single TrueType collection font (TTC) that merges both SC and TC version of the font into a single font file. This has drastically reduced the file size and provides the ability to change the localization of characters to fit both Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. By setting the language of the text, the characters will change to the localized form automatically.

SC	TC
給别開青面， 致敬勇敢體。	給别開青面， 致敬勇敢體。

This feature available in some softwares (mainly softwares that provide language tagging) and should be on by default. You may try this functionality in browser at the next section.

aalt

Lastly, to ease the user experience, all the above features (excluding liga and dlig) will be put in access all alternates, aalt, thus softwares may provide selection for characters in aalt.