SGC Illustrations¶
Affinity Designer¶
Nearly all of the illustrations/graphics for SGC courses have been created by Ezra in Affinity Designer.
Affinity does not currently support pretty much any "scripty" language, including:
- Hindi
- Tamil
- Thai? (more officially supported as of v2 beta 2.1. See also.)
So for languages that Aff. Designer doesn't support, Ezra exports a blank image (vector .emf format) with no words and then use it as a base layer in Microsoft Publisher which does a much better job of handling fonts/scripts in exotic languages. See the table below for a list of which languages need to be done in Publisher.
Fonts¶
The generic Noto Sans font supports ~800 languages, but the more specialized scripts have their own versions of Noto Sans. All of these fonts--the exact version that Ezra has installed on his system can be found here.
| App | Lang | Font Name |
|---|---|---|
| Pub | Arabic | Noto Naskh Arabic |
| Aff | Georgian | Noto Sans Georgian |
| Pub | Hindi | Noto Sans |
| Pub | Bengali | Noto Sans Bengali |
| Pub | Nepali | Noto Sans |
| Pub | Punjabi | Noto Sans Gurmukhi |
| Aff | Simp Chin | Noto Sans CJK SC |
| Aff | Trad Chin | Noto Sans CJK TC |
| Pub | Tamil | Noto Sans Tamil |
| Pub | Telugu | Noto Sans Telugu |
| Pub | Thai | Noto Sans Thai Looped |
| Pub | Urdu | Markazi Text & Noto Nastaliq Urdu |