fonts for scholars, academics, students
this is awesome.
fonts - greek, latin, semitic, hieroglyphs, and more!
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fonts - greek, latin, semitic, hieroglyphs, and more!
First say to yourself what you would be; then do what you need to do. ~Epictetus
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Some cool stuff there - even things unavailable from my favourite ancient font site:
http://www.geocities.com/timessquare/al ... fonts1.htm
http://www.geocities.com/timessquare/al ... fonts1.htm
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That is amazing. Has anyone here ever created a font? Is it hard? I wouldn't mind making a font of my sloppy handwriting so that I can send it to everyone dear to me!
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Making fonts isn't so much hard as *time consuming*!
Each letter, number, punctuation mark - and every version of it (uppercase, lowercase - sometimes even bold and italic) is a separate graphic you have to draw. And if you're creating fonts for other scripts, you have the fun of deciding on the character map...
Each letter, number, punctuation mark - and every version of it (uppercase, lowercase - sometimes even bold and italic) is a separate graphic you have to draw. And if you're creating fonts for other scripts, you have the fun of deciding on the character map...
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So they're scanned first, right? I should give that a try - it sounds like fun, but I bet they hard part is making the font look good. I have seen some fonts that just don't layout all that well. Even SPIonic has some problems with the spacings of accents and aspiration marks.Raya wrote:Making fonts isn't so much hard as *time consuming*!
Each letter, number, punctuation mark - and every version of it (uppercase, lowercase - sometimes even bold and italic) is a separate graphic you have to draw. And if you're creating fonts for other scripts, you have the fun of deciding on the character map...
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You *could* scan in each character first, but so far I find you get better results by drawing them as vector graphics. Or I suppose you can compromise by scanning in and then tweaking... but I think you're still left with one of the major troubles with font appearance, and that is when you scale fonts up and down. By using vector graphics, you're pretty much guaranteed for it to be smooth at all sizes.
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