From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9ab217670907081200s5ae2ef2ape0241a49d71e9fa3@mail.gmail.com> References: <9ab217670907081200s5ae2ef2ape0241a49d71e9fa3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:11:00 -0400 Message-ID: <2781f020907081211r208f269dkc5a9df6b279cea5b@mail.gmail.com> From: Joseph Stewart To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Fonts Topicbox-Message-UUID: 16cdbf2e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I can't help at all, but the first sentence made me shoot soda out my nose laughing. -joe On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > I have very little idea about these fuckers. I know there are > baselines and ideas about m's and n's and kerning and whatnot. > > But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about > 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize > that I have zero idea of how fonts are designed and packaged. Does > anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info > on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting). > > --dho > >