Trial Fonts

If you would like to offer trial fonts to your prospective clients, you can use the subsetting function of Corretto to create a copy of your fonts with a reduced character set, and Trial added to the family name.

In the YAML file, we first define an entry under the charsets key with the unique ID demo and a list of Unicode values in hexadecimal notation:

Next, we want to limit the OpenType layout features to those active by default (like kerning, common ligatures, and mark positioning), and we also want to showcase our Stylistic Set feature. For this, we define a feature set with the unique ID minimal:

featuresets:
    - id: minimal
      features:
          base: default
          add:
              - ss01

Then, under the subsets key, we add an entry referencing our feature set and charset IDs. We also tell Corretto that the fonts’ family names should be suffixed with “Trial”, and that the modified fonts should be saved in the directory “MyFamily Trial”. The directory will be created if necessary. The out_dir directory path is relative to the export destination.

subsets:
    - charset: demo
      family:
          suffix: Trial
      featureset: minimal
      out_dir: MyFamily Trial

Download the full YAML file: trial.correttosubsetter.yaml