How to re-export/modify Inter to set some alternate characters as default?

[yusuphgammut]

Hey, first of all congratulations and thanks for v4 of Inter, its just awesome!

I'd like to know if there is a (preferably quick) way to re-export or modify Inter so that it has some alternate characters as default characters. Let's say I want to re-export Inter (both roman and italic) to generate variable, OTF, TTF, and WOFF2 files that have the alternate uppercase "I", lowercase "L", lowercase "U", and open numbers "6" and "9" as default. How can I do that?

I'm starting to explore the Glyphs app so I don't know if it is possible via the Glyphs interface in the font properties dialog window, or maybe a python script. I'd appreciate any ideas.

[iKL3W]

Hi ! Same question here! So many configurations and it's hard to want to stick to the default version without trying other configurations. On Microsoft Word you can change some "stylistic sets" but it's just a bunch of 20 unnamed configurations that change a parameter (e. g. "l", "0") and it's quite limiting. Could there be an update to change this behaviour at least in Word? or would there be a way to download the fonts with the parameters we want? or a way to change our default settings when the font is downloaded (btw I'm on Mac)?

Also, great job on the new version, I love it even more ! Thanks.

[Pogimon3]

You can use Opentype Feature Freezer for doing this.
Get the feature names from here: https://rsms.me/inter/#features

[iKL3W]

can we use it with multiple fonts (weights) at once? Because 8 weights for 3 fonts is quite a long task.

[yusuphgammut]

Thanks @Pogimon3 . I'll give it a try and I'll let you know.

[Pogimon3]

You can use it on the variable version of the font file. It will generate a variable version with the features frozen. You can then use a python script to generate different weights from (should be straightforward)

[iKL3W]

The commands for installing the font is to open "Inter.ttc", "InterVariable.ttf" and "InterVariable-Italic.ttf" but Opentype Feature Freezer doesn't seem to work for "Inter.ttc":

INFO: [RemapByOTL] Running with options: Namespace(features='ss01,ss03,cv06,cv08,cv05', info=False, inpath='/Users/username/Downloads/Inter-4.0/Inter.ttc', lang=None, names=True, outpath=None, replacenames='', report=False, script=None, suffix=False, usesuffix='', verbose=True, zapnames=False)
WARNING: [_openFontTTX] TTX cannot open /Users/username/Downloads/Inter-4.0/Inter.ttc: specify a font number between 0 and 35 (inclusive)
WARNING: Errors during processing.
INFO: [RemapByOTL] Running with options: Namespace(features='ss01,ss03,cv06,cv08,cv05', info=False, inpath='/Users/username/Downloads/Inter-4.0/Inter.ttc', lang=None, names=True, outpath=None, replacenames='', report=False, script=None, suffix=False, usesuffix='', verbose=True, zapnames=False)
WARNING: [_openFontTTX] TTX cannot open /Users/username/Downloads/Inter-4.0/Inter.ttc: specify a font number between 0 and 35 (inclusive)
WARNING: Errors during processing.

Is there a fix for that error, or do we go through with it without changing this one file?

Thanks for your response.

[Pogimon3]

TTC is a relatively new format. Don’t think Opentype Feature Freezer supports is yet. You’ll have to freeze features for the inter variable ttf file and the inter display ttf files separately