On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Paul Winkler wrote:
> But I'm looking to fiddle with handwriting (mine and others') ...
Cool!
> > ASCII figlet fonts are easy to make. There's a document that comes with the
> > figlet package which tells you how to roll your own.
>
> Figlets???
Fonts rendered with ASCII characters:
__ _ _ _
/ _(_) __ _| | ___| |_ ___
| |_| |/ _` | |/ _ \ __/ __|
| _| | (_| | | __/ |_\__ \
|_| |_|\__, |_|\___|\__|___/
|___/
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
| |_| |--.-----.----.-----| .-----..---.-| | || |--|__.-----.--| .-----.
| _| | -__| _| -__||_|__ --|| _ | | || <| | | _ |__ --|
|____|__|__|_____|__| |_____| |_____||___._|__|__||__|__|__|__|__|_____|_____|
___ __ __ ___ __
.-----.' _|| |_| |--.-----.-----.-----..' _.-----.-----| |_.-----.
| _ | _|| _| | -__|__ --| -__|| _| _ | | _|__ --|
|_____|__| |____|__|__|_____|_____|_____||__| |_____|__|__|____|_____|
Like console fonts, these are neat but aren't what you're looking for.
> However, if you hand-draw your fonts as I plan to, you can make 'em as
> big as you want, and then you have less of a problem. (Assuming I can
> figure out how to resize the vector image after conversion...)
What program are you going to use to draw the vector image with?
> Moving on: Evelyn Mitchell wrote with these two suggestions (I'm not
> sure if the list got it, or just me:)
> >
> > Gnu Font Utilities:
Interesting.
Some good PS Type 3 fonts here:
<http://www.ankiewicz.com/language/language.html>
I wonder how she did them... the PS fractals on that page (also cool) were
probably written in PS in a text editor...
