TG font collaboration #2 Roundhead

I didn't want to seem as though I'm dissing Frances' idea without putting up something that's a possibility.
These two are from the Linotype Specimen book, they are an incomplete set, and I volunteer (unless someone else wants to, also) to design the missing characters. There are enough glyphs here to give an artist the "design sense" of the fonts.

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Thoughts?

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Here's my take on the borders.

The first of those fonts looks interesting not sure about the second one.

Christine

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Originally Posted by Gare

These two are from the Linotype Specimen book, they are an incomplete set, and I volunteer (unless someone else wants to, also) to design the missing characters. There are enough glyphs here to give an artist the "design sense" of the fonts.

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I would be interested in helping. Anything in particular you need me to do or just have at it,

I think it would get us closer to our goal if you took a look at one or both of the specimens and tried to figure out what some of the missing characters should look like, Larry.

Or else that's work I'd have to do by myself, and I'm not even a Moderator on this forum!

Tell you what: perhaps I should take the Burgeon typefaces through to the completion, and then let the real Moderators on this forum initiate a second typeface. What do you say to that? I'm open and I love working with type, but I also have the Xone to tend to, you know?

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These are the missing letters as far as I can see - but I am a bit confused by the fact that there appears to be 2 different typoes of capital E.

JKNQUVWXYZ bdfhjkpqtuvyz

I am happy to do any of them.

Christine

OK Gare, I'll work on the examples you posted and design the missing characters. Will you or Bill then turn them into a font?

I'd say the two of you—Larry, Christine—decide who is going to do which so there's no waste of effort.

@Larry: The goal, yes, would to be to make a typeface from all the characters.

@ Christine, I'd do both characters. We (Bill and I) could assign a slot for an alternative character.

Here's a Xara file with all the characters the book made available. Now, for example, we're missing a "z". Play the archeologist, and see if the "s" provides clues as to what the "z" should look like, and so on.

Outa time today! Be back tomorrow!

Gary

I opened your file to look at it and managed to blow up XDP7!. I was looking at each layer by clicking the "S" and XDP7 died when I clicked on the Isometric grid layer. The programme sent the error to Xara.
By the way I did like the borders.

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Here's my take on the borders.

The first of those fonts looks interesting not sure about the second one.

Christine

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I'm not sure which file crashed Xara for you, Grace. If it's the above Pages from Linotype...Xar. But I did open in and unhide the layers and stuff without snuffing the program.

If you want a clean copy of this with no layers, download the one I attached several posts ago.

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Christine's file blows up XDP if one clicks on the Isometric layer, changing its viewable status, trying to lock or unlock it. Download the attachment shown in the post directly above yours.

I copied the elements to a new file and it doesn't explode XDP anymore.

Take care, Mike