Issue assigning Private Use Area Unicode (E001–E005) to color glyphs

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Hello Fontself team,

I’m creating a color font with 5 decorative glyphs that I want to use as “space alternatives.” I’m trying to assign them to the Private Use Area (PUA) codes E001–E005, but I run into a problem:

  • When I enter E001 in the Unicode field, Fontself seems to treat the glyph as a ligature instead of assigning the correct Unicode.

  • I’ve tried typing it without the “U+” prefix and also tried leaving it in the glyph name, but the software still doesn’t recognize it as a standard PUA character.

Could you please advise the correct way to assign PUA codes to color glyphs in Fontself Maker for Illustrator?

Thank you very much for your help!

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In Fontself, all the glyphs that are imported without any character information are already assigned with a unique PUA code (highlighted as the orange box below glyphs). So by default you don’t need to do anything to export a font with PUA glyphs, just don’t assign any character or number to it (using the Batch button)

There is also a side panel at the bottom left with an option to display exact Unicode values instead of the characters:

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