Designing a font for Ryka, an abugida script with heavy use of ligatures
When I had fleshed out the writing system of my Ryka language, like probably any other conlanger out there, I wanted to create a font for it so that I could actually type texts in my language’s script. While designing the glyphs themselves was an artistic challenge on its own (and the result is far from perfect), the real hassle began when I was trying to install and use my font. So here’s the story of how I managed to…