Re: On creating my own fonts

[William Adams <will.adams@frycomm.com>]

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 that they have the same number of nodes and for  
the instances where I'm missing sizes I have to fill in what's  
missing, adjusting the outlines to make them all proportional.

Arguably this is the wrong path --- I should just be worrying about  
the extreme sizes and interpolating the balance --- the problem is I  
don't have access to a compleat character set at even a single size,  
let alone the twain of the extremes.

I've been considering re-starting the whole thing using Metatype1 and  
using what I've drawn as check points, but haven't found the time yet.

And I still need to do the italic, the bold and the bold-italic....

William

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William Adams
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Fry Communications
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