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A single OpenType font file is limited to 65,535 glyphs. Nothing stops your font from being implemented as a series of .otf files (besides what people think of
by poizan42 4y ago
A single OpenType font file is limited to 65,535 glyphs. Nothing stops your font from being implemented as a series of .otf files (besides what people think of as a "font" when it comes to usage on computers).
But yes, time constraints are the limiting factor. I don't think anyone is going to dedicate their entire life to making a single font.
- lifthrasiir 4y agoWhile you are right that one logical font can consist of multiple font files (or possibly a OpenType collection), this constraint does affect most typical fonts, and in particular wide-coverage CJK fonts already hit this limit. Fonts supporting only one of Chinese, Japanese and Korean don't need that many glyphs, and probably even two of them will be okay, but fonts with all three sets of glyphs won't. It is therefore common to provide three versions of fonts, all differently named.