It's all good, Bill, thanks!
So work off Bill's template and I've deleted mine.
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It's all good, Bill, thanks!
So work off Bill's template and I've deleted mine.
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In case you where wondering where I got to, I had to pack up and move. I'm very tired!
By what I've read, it sounds like we are modifying the TG font. If you want me to go over the work I have done, please let me know. :)
Michele please download the template and put the glyphs you designed for the roundhead font into the template. Make sure your glyphs match the guidelines. The upright portions should be the same width as the sample glyphs in the template. The bowls of any lowercase letters should match those within the template. Ascenders should be the correct height, descenders should be the same as the one on the g.
When you have the matching the template please post your .xar file in this thread.
Is the Roundhead font project dead? Is anyone working on standardizing the glyphs?
I will be away for a week beginning tomorrow morning.
I am working on it.
Thanks Larry. I was getting worried that no one had made a post recently.
For the record:
Bill needs to compile the font again, this time with gylphs you have corrected to meet the various widths in the template we posted, so the font looks consistent.
Right now, it looks not-so-good.
Please download the template and carefully adjust stem widths and diagonals so this looks like a typeface and not a ransom note.
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Hi Bill, Gare, all,
I'm not sure what portion of my offerings made it into the package. What do you need from me?
Is the correct template the one in Bill's post #240?
Some comments on Bill's red redesigns (also post #240) and Gary's post #239...It looks like Bill has eliminated the overshoot and Gary has resized the G without any overshoot. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ty...Line_Terms.svg) Seems those changes mess with the character of the original font. The original also had a bit of look of a "ransom note". Is our goal to remove the quirkiness and clean it to perfection? :confused:
Hi Fred—
This is my take and not necessarily that of The Management:
We should collectively strive for a consistency between characters, especially the verticals.
RoundHead, when used, produces sentence that don't look either right or quirky, because the stems have to be of absolutely the same width when these stems parts reappear as parts of other characters.
You know, ultimately, Bill is the Captain of this ship, and he says he;ll be away for a while. It might be better to push the Pause button on this font until his leadership returns.
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I have a question. I have done the punctuation over 3 or 4 times and at this point I'm still not sure how the brackets should be aligned nor the width. Any feedback would be appreciated. I have tried to do what I thought should be right but it doesn't seem to fit the mold, so at this point I'm stuck.
Just to let you all know I am working on my glyphs, but I'll be a day or two before I get them posted.
Fred the red letters in the template are only suggestions as I stated in the thread that contains the template.
Larry the square brackets should be the same have the same stem width as a capital letter and the same height. In the template file you will find a right hand parenthises as an example.
The attached .zip file contains a png of Gary's original image of the Roundhead sample sheet page. I have used an application that uses an s-spline algorithm to enlarge the image and sharpen the outlines. I hope this may help everyone.
Thanks Bill, I did note the example parenthesis example. It looks like it was on the base line and in my mind at least they should be somewhat longer then the capital height and descender, and centered which makes them not fit the template. So please someone tell me I'm wrong. I hope I'm making sense.
Bill here are the glyphs that I have been fixing. I hope these measure up! :)
OK here is the punctuation. I hope it is OK. If there is anything I missed let me know.
Attachment 89605
To complete this project we still need the upper and lower case glyphs to conform to the template. Anyone up to the job?
@Bill—
I think we'd all like some closure on this font, so we can use the bloody thing instead of trying to build it!
Send what you have to me via PM, and I will dedicate this afternoon to completing the rework so the characters have consistent stems and heights and ya-da-dah.
My Best,
Gary
Thanks Gary. Do you want the old upper and lower case files that have not been updated to comply with the template or just the files that Michele and Larry have updated?
How about both?
I got this new 500MB hard drive with lots of room! ;)
SCSI and everything...
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My times have changed a lot over the years. My first PC compatable only had a 10MB hard drive and had to be partitioned in to two 5MB sections. :D
I sent a zip file to your personal email.
You win. The first PC I sat down at was a friend's father's, a physician, who bought a 40MB, which I think cost more than $500, just so he didn't have to load a floppy to play Zork.
And Zork still runs on my machine as long as I have a DOS emulation software loaded.
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My first XT had a 10 meg drive. I was in heaven when I upgraded to the then largest drive I could get, a 20 meg drive. When I upgraded the MB to an AT, it was nirvana. Drives were expensive, but RAM was about $125 or so a meg iirc. Geez, that was a while ago.
Mike
Getting back on topic, if there is anything else you need Gary just give us a shout! :) Thank you for doing this .
I think I'm good, thanks, Frances.
I spent my free time today importing the original Xara glyphs, and thanks to Bill, the sizes were consistent.
I'm currently practicing "eyeballing" for consistency and if anything seems off, I go into the glyph in FontLab, not Xara, and make corrections. I have some global guides set up, Bill, in FL, and I'll have the caps lookin' good tomorrow. This will take a few days, but when I'm done, I feel—having designed and sold and given away about two dozen fonts—that this guy will be good to go in due time.
Notes to all: the verticals aren't consistent, not always and when you draw a straight line, use guides because some of the verticals were at .5 degrees or so.
My Best,
Gary
Did I miss it. Or is this font not ready yet?
The Roundhead font has been worked on behind the scenes and I just need some supporting documents now so I can package it up
We need a pdf guide to show all the glyphs and how they are mapped to the Keyboard (like the one with the Burgeon Ornaments) If any one is willing to volunteer for this it would be much appreciated.
If you have worked on this font at all please review this thread and be sure you have posted a release.
Frances the change log is attached.
Ok everyone first Thanks to Bill for doing the Change log. And thanks to everyone who has participated on this.
I have decided to do a pdf specimen sheet/glyph guide from scratch for this font. RoundHead has many more glyphs than the burgeon ornaments and most of them are standard but there are a few extra features so I'm going to prepare this Pdf to show off the font, and provide the keystrokes to insert the extra glyphs.
Congratulations folks on the birth of a beautiful typeface.
RoundHead TG is now officially launched and available for download.
Well i still haven't been able to find unless i went through different phase regarding downloading RoundHead TG thanks for font,Please i need suggestion where should we use this font like any specific niche.
Hello logodesign, welcome to Talkgraphics :)
You can click the link in Barbara's post or this one: RoundHead TG and they will take you to the thread in the free fonts Gallery where there are links to download the font and an acompanying PDF glyph guide.
For some inspiration for uses of the font have a look at the font Play we have going and you are most welcome to join in :)