Cool idea! I don’t believe there are many METATYPE1 fonts drawn with
any degree of parameterization (meta-ness)—are there any besides the
GUST Antykwa fonts (Toruńska Półtawskiego)?
Of course: the Latin Modern fonts are, inheriting from Computer
Modern, as is the whole Gyre family. For
Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
Cool idea! I don’t believe there are many METATYPE1 fonts drawn with
any degree of parameterization (meta-ness)—are there any besides the
GUST Antykwa fonts (Toruńska Półtawskiego)?
Of course: the Latin Modern fonts are, inheriting from Computer
Modern, as is
On Jun 19, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:43:44AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
4.) Be prepared to invest a lot of time ...
Tell me about it, I started three years ago and I'm nowhere close to
my
original goal :)
I've got over a decade (closing in on a
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:16 PM, William Adams will.ad...@frycomm.comwrote:
On Jun 19, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:43:44AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
4.) Be prepared to invest a lot of time ...
Tell me about it, I started three years ago and I'm
On Jun 25, 2009, at 10:25 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
uh why is it so difficult ?
I mean, I understand that can be hard.. but so hard ?
I've been drawing every instance of every character I can find at
every size --- then for the instances I have all of the sizes I have
to regularize them
luigi scarso wrote:
uh why is it so difficult ?
I mean, I understand that can be hard.. but so hard ?
From all I’ve learned by lurking on Typophile.com, yes; the $20–40 per
weight-style most fonts sell for is quite reasonable given the work
required to produce it.
William Adams wrote:
I've
1) draw by hand some glyphs, so you have an objective piece of paper of what
you want
2) search on Internet for a font that looks like what you (think) to want
3) starting from this font, make some modifications of glyphs that you
have drawn
with fontforge or metapost
With fontforge, you
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 02:15:32AM +, Maurício wrote:
Using those options, can I do everything I want with
fonts?
You can do virtually every thing, I use FontForge mainly for Arabic
fonts.
Can I ask you what you use to create arabic fonts? They always
have a beatifull
I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts.
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
also really cool are
http://unifiedfontobject.org/http://www.robofab.com/http://letterror.com/
I now understand I can:
* Use fontforge ascii file or unified font object to
describe
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 07:07:19PM +, Maurício wrote:
I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts.
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
also really cool are
http://unifiedfontobject.org/http://www.robofab.com/http://letterror.com/
I now understand I can:
Using those options, can I do everything I want with
fonts?
You can do virtually every thing, I use FontForge mainly for Arabic
fonts.
Can I ask you what you use to create arabic fonts? They always
have a beatifull caligraphic style, are they usually done with
tools like metafont or you
Maurício wrote:
I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If
possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to
at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools
to describe hinting, kerning and ligatures.
My current knowledge is this. I read
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote:
Maurício wrote:
I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If
possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to
at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools
to
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 03:20, Maurício wrote:
I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If
possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to
at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools
to describe hinting, kerning and ligatures.
My current
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:43:44AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
4.) Be prepared to invest a lot of time ...
Tell me about it, I started three years ago and I'm nowhere close to my
original goal :)
Regards,
Khaled
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:20:43PM -0300, Maurício wrote:
I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If
possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to
at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools
to describe hinting, kerning and ligatures.
I
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Maurício briqueabra...@yahoo.com wrote:
I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If
possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to
at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools
to describe hinting, kerning
I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If
possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to
at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools
to describe hinting, kerning and ligatures.
My current knowledge is this. I read that OpenType fonts are
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