Hi James I guess there are a lot of SIL or other open source fonts out there which fit fg license and probably also your needs. You can choose one you prefer or which comes close to what you need, monospaced or not, and I can make the ttf for you, when it is not there already. I know this tools, can modify with special glyphs or whatever. Could take some time, nice editing of fonts is not a quick task. I would recommend to start with a open source font already there.
Anyway a long time ago I proposed once in this list to replace the fonts used within flightgear with better and in open source license available fonts, like many other projects. Because this is my "business" I would really help to find the right fonts from a designers perspective. Cheers, Yves Am 12.01.2013 um 19:28 schrieb James Turner <zakal...@mac.com>: > I'm having fun creating a CDU instrument using the canvas! > > But I've encountered an issue that is most easily be solved, by creating a > custom TrueType font - I want to replace the lowercase letters with 'small' > upper-case letters, but keep the fixed width of the larger size. (Anyone > who's played with a Honeywell / Smiths CDU can guess what I'm up to here….). > > There's a few other issues (relating to our lack of Unicode support) I could > also solve with some font hackery, especially some custom symbols. > > So - does anyone have any practical experience with manipulating TTF fonts? > Please don't reply with lists of the tools available - I've already found > those via Google - I'm wondering if anyone has any practical experience of > actually doing this! > > My starting point for now would be one of the fixed-width Liberation TTF > fonts checked into fgdata, so there's no licensing issue. In the distant > future I might consider finding a more CDU-alike font to edit, but I suspect > there won't be many with a compatible license. > > Regards, > James > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912 > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
