Creating Glyphs

For a dictionary project we used lots of phonetic glyphs. The most of them can be made from an ordinary font just by transforming (rotating, mirroring) a glyph or attach an accent to it. There is also the “ezh” character, and unfortunately the Minion fonts used didn’t have it, but the similar “yogh”. Michael Everson has an interresting article about yogh vs. ezh here. So I combined “z” and “yogh” to produce the real “ezh”. BTW, the TIPA-Fonts have only a glyph named “yogh”, but it looks like “ezh” anyway.

Tags: ezh, fontforge, Glyph, IPA, Minion, phonetics, TIPA, yogh