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Design Complexity Feature Type

The design complexity feature type (kDesignComplexityType) controls the overall appearance of a font. It can be used to allow a single font to contain plain glyphs, italic glyphs, calligraphic chancery glyphs, and so forth. For a font that supports the design complexity feature type, design levels are numbered, and you can select any available level by number or by such selectors as those shown in Table B-8. This is a noncontextual, exclusive feature type. Figure B-5 shows four levels of design complexity for a font.


Figure B-5  Four levels of design complexity

Four levels of design complexity

Table B-8  Selectors for the design complexity feature

Feature selector

Description

kDesignLevel1Selector

Specifies the basic glyph set. This should be available for any font that utilizes this feature type. This is the default setting.

kDesignLevel2Selector

Specifies an alternate glyph set, more complex than level 1.

kDesignLevel3Selector

Specifies an alternate glyph set, more complex than level 2.

kDesignLevel4Selector

Specifies an alternate glyph set, more complex than level 3.

kDesignLevel5Selector

Specifies an alternate glyph set, more complex than level 4.



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Last updated: 2007-07-10

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