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,
> 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
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
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 so
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:16 PM, William Adams wrote:
> 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
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 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 beatif
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,
> > 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 y
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 u
> > 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
describ
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:20 AM, 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.
>
immo,
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.
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 fon
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 curr
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Taco Hoekwater 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 describe hi
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 rea
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
actu
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