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 can even make countours from images , and with a bit > of hack from MetaFont too. > > -- > luigi > > Don't forget about other sources of inspiration. Frederic Goudy for instance made illicite rubbings in Louvre and studied Roman inscriptions on columns and other monuments, as many others did :)
Best of luck! Piotr -- http://okle.pl
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