I can’t wait to get to my FontLab and try all these :)

Have a nice day!

Try this site, Adobe’s OpenType Feature File Specification:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko/topic_feature_file_syntax.html

And look for “Contextual substitution”, with which you can controls the substitution of repeating glyphs.

The (simplified) code that controls the replacement of the 3 available versions of the letter “a” looks something like this:

feature calt {

# if “a” is followed by “a” replace the second occurrence by “a.alt001”
sub a a’ by a.alt001;

# and if “a.alt001” is followed by “a”, replace it by “a.alt002”
sub a.alt001 a’ by a.alt002;

} calt;

I can add ligatures and swashes and all that pretty simple features now but I would like to learn this kind of programming I saw in this video as well.

Could anyone suggest something? Book? A site?

Thanks in advance!

:^)

Both these fonts rock. The video is a nice touch. People need to know how much work goes into creating type. In my colleague’s Typography class, creating a functional font family is the final. I’m going to recommend he link to this video. Thanks for all you do, man.