[projectaon] Re: Can You Help...Create A Font?
- From: "Iain Smith" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "iainsmith@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: "projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 13:27:37 +0000 (UTC)
Well, the sample certainly shows promise, so I'll keep at it.
1) Thicken the lower line on the D.
2) Create a Q (based upon O and K?) and X (not sure the best approach).
3) Add existing numbers (worth trying to generate 3, 4, 6, 8, 9?)
4) Increase the character spacing (by how much?)
5) Fix baseline and general tidy-up.
I'll get back to you.
From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, 4 November 2014, 12:07
Subject: [projectaon] Re: Can You Help...Create A Font?
On 03/11/2014 23:37, Iain Smith wrote:
> Anyway, back on topic :)
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>
> I've found some time to at least make an initial attempt at a font from
> Simon's scans.
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> I've uploaded it to my Google account, since I can't remember my Project
> Aon login details and I'm not sure if attachments would work here.
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7SUHgd4eWMVeGtWb3kxdkZKa00/view?usp=sharing
>
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> Basically, all the uppercase characters except Q and X are there. but
> I'm not sure if the results are worth pursuing. They don't look too bad
> when large, but aren't very clear when the size is reduced. If people
> think it's worth pressing on, I will need to try and create a Q and X
> from the existing glyphs, plus pull in other things such as digits (the
> maps only contain 0, 1, 2, 5 and 7, so the others would need to be
> hand-crafted). The vertical alignment also needs fixing.
I knocked up a version of LW3 using this font.
<http://www.projectaon.org/staff/simon/Maps/LW03%20Map%20%28Alt%29%20%28New%20Labels%29%202.png>
I might say that the D needs a slightly thicker line; and maybe the
letters need slightly more padding between them (I've tried adding this
manually, which I think helps), but it's much better than Comic Sans! :-)
The handwritten quality to the font adds to the quality of the map,
IMHO. Obviously the numerals are currently still in Comic Sans, and the
label "THE ICY WASTES OF KALTE" is in fonts that are pretty damn close
to the original map anyway, so they'll be OK as is.
Thoughts?
--
Simon Osborne
Project Aon
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