Hello, everyone who publishes online comics in SVG format might be interested in this. My comic lettering font, Tomson Talks, is now available from the Open Font Library at http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/skotan/310
It is licensed under the SIL Open Font License. There are a lot of freely available comic fonts on the web, but I couldn't find any which are firstly also free for commercial use, and secondly under a license which clearly allows me to convert them to SVG fonts and include them by reference (of which I'm not sure whether or not it can be considered to be legally the same as embedding the font), so, since font design is fun, I decided to make my own comic font. When using the same font in multiple documents storing it in an external file and referencing it would reduce bandwidth use; even more so for user agents which don't even support SVG fonts. I could be wrong now, but I think Opera and Batik Squiggle are the only user agents currently supporting externally referenced SVG fonts. However, that's not a reason not to use this feature. Let's give other developers a reason to add support. Editing the outlines and the kerning was all done with SVG+Javascript based tools. I have yet to find another solution which would allow me to use the full range of path segments available in SVG. I mostly used elliptic arcs for line endings and quadratic bezier curves for almost straight lines, allowing for more compact outline representations than if I had to trace the whole outlines with cubic bezier curves. Note that some double consonants (like double T) are implemented as extra glyphs, and that the few accented characters which are included are not derived from their unaccented counterparts. All to make the font look less regular, more like hand lettered. Regards Frank ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
