SVG files for glyphs intended to work with Intel Clear Sans.
Intel Clear Sans is my body copy font of choice for most things ePub but it is lacking small-caps variant.
My intention is to create small-caps variants for the Regular and Bold weights with both the Upright and Italic variants.
There also are some picture glyphs I often use with CSS and ::before with hyperlinks to give a visual indication about the link. I will be adding those too where the existing picture glyphs in Intel Sans do not suit my needs.
The asterik character will be lowered and possibly borrowed from Fira Sans so that it is centered nicely between two lower-case small-caps letters.
Only the SVG files will be here, ready for import into FontForge. I will not be hosting font files.
This will take a while to complete. Many glyphs need side-bearing and other metric adjustments. Especially with Italic and BoldItalic.
Remember to auto-hint and kern if importing these into a font.
Descriptions of the glyphs I am creating are below. These are being created for my own personal needs but they may be of benefit to others.
This glyph is actually borrowed from Fira Sans but lowered so that it is vertically centered in small-cap height.
It exists for typing the words Un*x or *nix in small-caps.
Right now only 3 glyphs in this range have been created, 23 more to go (possibly more if I ever need small-caps ligatures or variants like Ñ)
Small-Caps created from the Clear Sans upper case. Each glyph was redrawn, it is not just a scale/resize. The small-caps height is just a tad taller than the x-height. Strokes are proportionally a tad thicker and glyphs are proportionally a tad wider than the upper case letters when scaled to the same height.
Intel Clear Sans already has a few of these (in addition to the Latin 1 vulgar fractions U+00BC-U+00BE) but it seems to only have the vulgar fractions that are part of WGL4. I will be creating glyphs for the vulgar fractions that it is missing as I use them (e.g. U+2153 and U+2154 for a third and two thirds respectively).
In ePub I use this glyph as a visual indication to the user for hyperlinks the use can use to skip past a block of content they may not immediately want to consume. The glyph was drawn by me to small-caps height so that it looks good in body copy, with most fonts it is designed for A/V interface control and it looks out of place in body copy.
This is the Clear Sans glyph but centered to the Caps Height (actual caps, not small caps). Italic variants may need horizontal adjustment.
In ePub when the user prefers bold over italics, I use this glyph with CSS and h3::before to allow h3 headings to be visually distinguished from other bold text of similar height.
This glyph really needs it's own Unicode codepoint.
The manual wheelchair glyph is frequently abused as a glyph in association with accessibility (a11y) probably as a result of the appropriate use of the glyph with handicapped parking and wheelchair accessible restrooms.
Accessibility goes beyond physical mobility issues and when addressing accessible content I do not want to use a glyph that focuses on the disability but I would rather use a glyph that focuses on the humanity of those who have barriers to content access, whether they are physical disabilities or not.
The glyph is my own creation but is heavily based on a glyph that is widely used with the accessibility community. I do not understand why it does not have its own Unicode codepoint.
I use this glyph in ePub to indicate when a section deals with content accessibility issues.
The same glyph is used for Regular, Italic, Bold, and BoldItalic. It is designed to have same vertical metrics as an upper case O so that it aligns nicely with both headings and body copy.
Clear Sans does not have this glyph. My version is much like the globe with meridians you see in other fonts, but the center has a wifi symbol.
In ePub when a hyperlink requires an Internet connection and a browser, I use this glyph the let the user know so that the user does not follow the link if they do not have a current Internet connection or wish to have a browser launch.
The same glyph is used for Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic.
Clear Sans does not have this glyph. My version will not be a 'spiral' shell but will be heavily based on this shell:
https://pixabay.com/vectors/seashell-shell-ocean-beach-sea-1531572/
In ePub when I have a link to shell utilities, I will use this glyph as a visual indication to the user that the link is to shell utilities that I maintain.
Clear Sans does not have this glyph. My version uses a book with a question mark on the cover. My use probably should have a different Unicode codepoint but one does not exist (that I could find) for my use, so I used 1F4D3 so that those reading my ePub books with publisher fonts disabled will still get a glyph that is not too far off the mark.
In ePub when an acronym or term is used that is not central to understanding the section but which the user may want defined, I will sometimes define it in the glossary and link to it. I use this glyph as a visual indication with the link so that the user knows it is a link within the document to the definition.
The book outline is my own but I have seen the same concept used elsewhere and I liked it. The question mark is from Clear Sans Bold and Clear Sans Bold Italic.
I am planning to redraw this glyph to make the stroke for the book outline a tad thicker, which will reduce the vertical space for the question mark so I will probably remove the bottom dot.
The glyph height is from baseline to caps height so it looks good in body copy.
Clear Sans does not have this glyph. My version (not yet created) will be much like my version of U+1F4D3 but will have an ePub logo on it.
I will use it to indicate a link is to an ePub book.