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From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] Fonts
Date: Wed,  8 Jul 2009 15:00:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ab217670907081200s5ae2ef2ape0241a49d71e9fa3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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



             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-08 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-08 19:00 Devon H. O'Dell [this message]
2009-07-08 19:11 ` Joseph Stewart
2009-07-08 19:11   ` Joseph Stewart
2009-07-08 19:49 ` J. R. Mauro
2009-07-08 19:49 ` Bakul Shah
2009-07-08 20:05 ` Josh Wood
2009-07-08 20:14   ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 20:15   ` J. R. Mauro
2009-07-08 20:44     ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 21:44       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-08 21:51         ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 22:21           ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-09  2:21           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-09  3:17             ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-09  5:25               ` Russ Cox
2009-07-09 10:10                 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 21:01                 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-15 21:34                   ` Russ Cox
2009-07-09 10:02               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-08 20:50     ` John Floren
2009-07-08 21:42       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-08 21:47         ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 21:49           ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-08 20:23 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-09 15:43 Chad Brown
2009-07-09 15:55 ` Federico G. Benavento
2002-01-07 19:04 forsyth
2002-01-07 18:41 Russ Cox
2002-01-07 20:16 ` Fariborz Tavakkolian
2002-01-07  9:38 skipt

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