Custom Fonts
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Custom Fonts
Does anyone have a resource or any idea on how to create your own font with unique characters?
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His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
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Re: Custom Fonts
There was some piece of software named Fontforge. Try googling fontforge tutorials - but I don't guarantee the software's still around there nor it's still free :s
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Re: Custom Fonts
After I posted I kind of had a durr moment and googled it like I should have in the first place.
A better question is: does anyone have any experience with creating custom fonts. There's a wealth of information out there. Unfortunately, I have no what's garbage or not.
A better question is: does anyone have any experience with creating custom fonts. There's a wealth of information out there. Unfortunately, I have no what's garbage or not.
His Incomparable Highness,
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
Re: Custom Fonts
I have a little experience, having created a custom font for my conlang, Proto-Sylphic.
As for Latin fonts, though, I ain't got none.
As for Latin fonts, though, I ain't got none.
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Re: Custom Fonts
It's not a Latin Alphabet font, if that helps. I've made a number of modernizing changes to the Ogham alphabet to make it compatible with the English language and wanted to use it in the PDFs and letterheads I produce for Uantir. Since I have made changes, I cannot use any existing Ogham fonts that are out there.
His Incomparable Highness,
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
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Re: Custom Fonts
One of the MicroWiki nations has made a pretty nifty script for their language, which looks like an actual font rather than copy-pasted scribbles, so they might be able to point you in the right direction
Re: Custom Fonts
I don't understand. How is a script different than a font?
His Incomparable Highness,
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
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Re: Custom Fonts
Examples of scripts (writing systems):
Latin
Cyrillic
Arabic
Examples of fonts (typefaces):
Times New Roman
Verdana
Century Gothic
Latin
Cyrillic
Arabic
Examples of fonts (typefaces):
Times New Roman
Verdana
Century Gothic
Re: Custom Fonts
Oh. So I guess I'm trying to make a new script then. I didn't realize there was a distinction.
His Incomparable Highness,
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
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... and you need to create a font to use it easily. Craitman just wanted to show another situation of the same type. What you might do now is to contact the creators of the script to tell you how they created font for their script.
Pavel' Abramovic:, the President of Interland
IRL just a random guy from Poland. Still learning English.
IRL just a random guy from Poland. Still learning English.
Re: Custom Fonts
Hmm. I just acquired FontCreator 5.5 and that's working for me. It beats making vectors in Photoshop. The only problem I find is that when I make the characters the same size as a font like, say, Arial it's impossible to read at anything less than 20 pt. I'll fiddle with it the next few days.
His Incomparable Highness,
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
Re: Custom Fonts
So creating a script is not, as I expected, a task for 'a couple days.' As much as I may have fallen off the earth, I've been tinkering with this off an on more than anything else.
This is still a prototype, there are things I don't like and such, but I want to get people's opinions before I bring up my problems and see what solutions that community has to suggest.
Note: This font is about 5 points smaller than we're used to, and I haven't gotten around to changing that. To make it about the same size (and legibility) of 11 point Arial it needs to be about 16 point. That requires an entire rebuild, so I want to work all the kinks out before I enlarge it.
...and .ttf is not a valid attachment file type, so I had to zip it despite it in no way needing to be zipped.
This is still a prototype, there are things I don't like and such, but I want to get people's opinions before I bring up my problems and see what solutions that community has to suggest.
Note: This font is about 5 points smaller than we're used to, and I haven't gotten around to changing that. To make it about the same size (and legibility) of 11 point Arial it needs to be about 16 point. That requires an entire rebuild, so I want to work all the kinks out before I enlarge it.
...and .ttf is not a valid attachment file type, so I had to zip it despite it in no way needing to be zipped.
- Attachments
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- Uantiri Ogham - Copy.zip
- The prototype script for a modernized Uantiri version of ancient Ogham.
- (8.77 KiB) Downloaded 249 times
His Incomparable Highness,
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
Re: Custom Fonts
So am I seeing it right in that it's a series of lines representing various letters?
Just want to make sure it's loading properly.
Just want to make sure it's loading properly.
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If it's looking like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham_script , yup, it's what it's supposed to be.
Pavel' Abramovic:, the President of Interland
IRL just a random guy from Poland. Still learning English.
IRL just a random guy from Poland. Still learning English.
Re: Custom Fonts
Yes it is a series of hatch marks that represent letters based off an archaic alphabet used in the ancient UK. From what researchers can tell it was never really used for more than placemarkers and is terribly ill equipped to accommodate modern language. Mostly I'm looking for anyone to notice obvious mistakes, gaps, or whatever my brain is editing out due to having looked at it too long. Praise is cool too.
My major problems:
1-Keeping the individual letter's hatchmarks close enough that you don't confuse two 2 hatch characters next to each other for a four hatch character makes it illegible.
2-Widening the gap between letters makes it harder to tell where spaces are without making spaces absurd in their length.
3-Double spacing leaves a lonely dash since the space key symbol has to be a center line to preserve the center line between words. I don't like it, but have no idea how to fix it.
My Potential Fixes
1 & 2-Create an anachronistic notch, bump, break, or symbol of somesort after every letter to help distinguishing them easier. As with every addition or change, I want to preserve the original as much as possible...granted legibility is still a necessity.
3-Remove the continual line and just have normal spacing, making the script look less like the unique continual line Ogham and more like Hindi where every word's letters are all connected with a line, but not entire sentences / lines.
Suggestions and comments welcome and encouraged.
My major problems:
1-Keeping the individual letter's hatchmarks close enough that you don't confuse two 2 hatch characters next to each other for a four hatch character makes it illegible.
2-Widening the gap between letters makes it harder to tell where spaces are without making spaces absurd in their length.
3-Double spacing leaves a lonely dash since the space key symbol has to be a center line to preserve the center line between words. I don't like it, but have no idea how to fix it.
My Potential Fixes
1 & 2-Create an anachronistic notch, bump, break, or symbol of somesort after every letter to help distinguishing them easier. As with every addition or change, I want to preserve the original as much as possible...granted legibility is still a necessity.
3-Remove the continual line and just have normal spacing, making the script look less like the unique continual line Ogham and more like Hindi where every word's letters are all connected with a line, but not entire sentences / lines.
Suggestions and comments welcome and encouraged.
His Incomparable Highness,
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir
His Matchless Grace,
His Majestic Honor,
His Eminent Splendor,
His Chivalrous Eminence,
The Rook
Lord Protector of Uantir