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Custom Font Creation

If you have a font editor like FontCreator and want to make your own fonts for Pocket Digital Clock, please take note of the following guidelines:

• Font Family Name must be PDC
• Font Weight: Bold (Must be specified in the font settings and not naming.)
• Font Design: Bold 
• PANOSE Values: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 (Zero for all fields)
• Font-family Class: No classification.
  
• Required glyphs: 0-9, COLON(:), PERIOD(.) and SPECIAL
  • 0-9 are the time digits.
  • COLON(:) and PERIOD(.) represent the time separator between the hour and minute digits. Some European countries use the PERIOD(.) for time separator instead.
  • SPECIAL is a glyph used for the transparent LED effect as seen in the PDC Default font. It is usually the same as the number 8 glyph, otherwise, leave blank if not in use.
• Gylph mapping (Microsoft Unicode BMP only):
  • 0-9: U+2FE0 to U+2FE9
  • COLON(:): U+2FEA
  • PERIOD(.): U+2FEB
  • SPECIAL: U+2FEC
• Dimension of the gylphs are based on the Tahoma font
• Glyph width:
  • 0-9 and SPECIAL: 1118 (including white spaces before and after glyph)
  • COLON(:) and PERIOD(.): 724 (including white spaces)
  • Horizontal white space before or after glyph: 120 avg.
• Glyph height:
  • 1557 max.
  • Bottom boundings: -31
  • Top boundings: 1526
• Custom font file to be saved as PDC.ttf
• Install your custom font as mentioned in the Custom Font Installation page

You can also download the Custom Fonts for reference.

Happy font making ;-)