Rockwell - adding Latin glyphs

[iheartwine]

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I've got Rockwell font on my PC, but despite information I found it doesn't contain Latin glyphs - how could I add them manually? (draw in Illustrator etc.? which software use to add those chars?)

thanks in advance!

[hrant]

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What do you mean by "Latin" here?

hhp

[Thomas Phinney]

Yes, this is confusing to us because the Latin writing system is the one used for English, French, German, Polish, etcetera. Rockwell is generally a Latin typeface in that sense.

If you mean "special characters needed for scholarly Latin" or something, for the Latin *language* per se, that is another matter. You'd need a font editing program to do it, and possibly the permission of the copyright holder on the font itself.

The short version is that modifying fonts is a bunch of work, and doing it properly without messing something up is not trivial in terms of expertise. If you're still at the point where you don't know about dedicated font editing software, you have a noticeable amount of learning that would be required, as in days not just hours. Weeks or more worth of learning if truly new characters are needed and not just minor modifications to existing ones.

So you might be best off getting a font that already has the support you need, unless you have a broader or more general interest in type design and font development.

Regards,

T

[Nick Shinn]

As the OP is Polish, I suspect that a lack of CE characters (e.g. with ogonek) is the issue.