A student and I are working on a project that will involve using the browser-based manipulation and distortion of typefaces using SVG. We're interested in finding a very "simple" and liberally licensed typeface. We've worked with Symbola before which has a nice and full set of glyphs, but the paths of Symbola are very complex, having been created with some sort of package, exported to TTF prior to our conversion to SVG. As with many things like the familiar HTML5 logo, the geometry underlying the glyphs has not been designed with an eye to "geometric accessibility" [1] . The "5", in the logo, for example, consists of four separate polygons temporally displayed in the code in a completely non-intuitive order,* which would totally defy the ability of someone trying to understand the geometry of a picture haptically or tactiley.
What we would like is something that has a minimal number of points in its SVG path (for example a sans-serif H would have 12 points in its outline, and a serif version might have 16). Anyone who has tried to hand edit or script typical files found at http://openclipart.org/ (typically made in Inkscape and filled with irrelevant gradients and filters, empty paths and path vertices repeated a dozen times consecutively and exported without optimization) knows what I mean. The SVG code should be as clean (as if it were hand-written by someone with knowledge of high school level coordinate geometry)! Any tips would be appreciated. [1] http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/GeometricAccessibility.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- 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: [email protected] [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/
