> On Apr 28, 2016, at 10:37 AM, schoe...@kw.igs.net wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:19:43 +0100, Rod Smallwood wrote
>> But they built it out of circles and straight lines and that's what I do.
>
> That's superficially, but not exactly, true. Even the 'o' is not a perfect
> circle, and you can't get close to replicating the 's' or the digits that way.
>
> I took a stab at replicating the 'classic dec' font about a decade ago,
> following
> scanned DEC manuals wherever possible. I built up most of the basic ASCII set
> in
> the outline form before suspending the project. (I suspect the solid form can
> mostly be derived from paths through the middle of the outline strokes.) It
> did
> get used a few years ago by our Jason T for some VCF Midwest graphics -
> https://picasaweb.google.com/102190732096693814506/VCFMW50OfficialGraphics#551251
> 2730455260610
Neat. I did the same many years ago, using CorelDraw as a very poor man's font
maker, but it was just good enough to create the basic outlines. I call the
font "Handbook" and I've sent out TTF files of it at times. I can do so again
if anyone wants it. It has no kerning in it (no support for that in
CorelDraw). I could probably add those with a better font editor.
The samples you pointed to don't take into account that there are two versions
of f and t and r -- one for end of word that has the long curl in your design,
and one for mid-word that has a shorter curl.
paul
