[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: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 23:13:17 +0000 (UTC)
Well, it's taken me a couple of evenings to produce that font, maybe 6 hours in
total. If you have the hi-res scans for the lower-case characters, then I could
pull them into the existing font. The difficulty will be "filling in the gaps"
should we try to produce a full upper and lower case typeface. Feel free to
produce the scan and I'll try to pull it together when I get some free time.
Iain.
From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, 5 November 2014, 21:02
Subject: [projectaon] Re: Can You Help...Create A Font?
Hey, Iain
On 05/11/2014 19:09, Iain Smith wrote:
> You ask a lot, don't you? ;)
If I ask this much of others, imagine how much I must annoy myself in
trying to do impossible things!
> I've fixed the problem with the space showing a Y in Inkscape (not sure
> exactly what happened), Widened the space and renamed the whole thing to
> LoneWolf3.
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7SUHgd4eWMVYWJORjVNUG0zeWc/view?usp=sharing
>
> Hope that's of use to you.
Brilliant! :-)
<http://www.projectaon.org/staff/simon/Maps/LW03%20Map%20%28Alt%29%20%28New%20Labels%29%202.png>
Feast your eyes on that! I'd call that done--and better than the
original, even!
How easy and time consuming is it to knock out a font given a hi-res
scan? I don't like presuming on people--especially when you've created
such an excellent facsimile on Gary Chalk's handwriting for the Book 3
map! I'm just thinking that the maps for 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 would
benefit from something similar.
Here's the thing: Book 1 is very similar to Book 3, only it also
contains some lower-case characters (and a hyphen and an apostrophe).
The lower case chars could be culled from a Book 1 scan and added to the
Lone Wolf 3 font?
Books 4, 5, 6 seem to be similar in style but narrower, and the odd
letter is different (G has a more pronounced tail in 5 and 6)
Book 7 is completely different.
Book 8 is completely different.
Book 6 also has a very limited second font (only 13 characters) for the
shields.
One character needs adjusting in a freely-downloaded font to match more
closely the font used in a couple of the Freeway Warrior maps.
That's a lot of work, and I don't want to burden anyone. Especially
after you've produced such a great font already! The maps for Books 1-8
can be viewed in the online editions if anyone wants to see the basic
glyph shapes.
But I am absolutely chuffed to bits with how good the Book 3 map looks
now! Must add an entry to the Credits page of Book 3 for the font. :-)
--
Simon Osborne
Project Aon
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