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To share the workload I need some volunteers to trace the lower case as well as design the missing characters, and, others to do the same with the numbers. I was also thinking about adding all the other characters seen on the keyboard, is that a good idea, or is that nu-necessary additional work and better left to those that create the font itself? If someone would like to help me with the upper case letters, that would be most appreciated.
I have a larger JPEG, better resolution, just made it, sorry Larry!
If we can push this back about a week in terms of assigning stuff, I'm pretty good at faithfully reconstructing missing characters and can volunteer after I get April's Xara Xone done.
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Larry: Does this font not already exist?!
Rik, if you can find it, you can keep it.
As far as I know, the font specimen was published in 1904, it's P.D., so we're free to create a typeface based on the specimen sheet.
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I only ask the question because I thought I had seen something similar.
Morning Glory
That's it, Rik. Nick Curtis and I had given a few of his typefaces away with the Xtreme Official Guide, and he's a very talented "Retro" artist. I'm not sure about the source he quotes, but it's within years of Linotype's entry.
Larry, I think we gotta call this off, unless you think we collectively can do better than Nick. We're entitled to recreate Morning Glory because it's public domain, but I see little sense, especially sine Nick created the characters we ourselves are missing.
Rik, thanks for the tip. What are any thoughts on this one: Chaucer?
If you like the look, I can make a high res copy with more characters.
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My Best,
Gary
OK Gare, if it exists and Nick has already done the missing characters then there is no sense to do it again. So I'll see if Christine needs any help.
OK this particular font is called off. Thank you to all who might have helped out.
Gare: That is an interesting font however I am not a fan of that type of curly cue font, and I in particular do not find them very useful.
My thoughts are that we should see the Bergeon font through to completion first and then look at the Round head font. I think if we get too many projects going at once we are going to create confusion and I am sure that Gary and Bill will want time to do the actual work of creating the fonts. And if I'm not mistaken Gary is also probably busy with the April Xara Xone about now too!
I have been searching for the Morning Glory font but have not been able to find it. Anyone know what the version is called or where to find it? I am starting to wonder if that project should not have been canceled.
Larry, we need to kill the Morning Glory project because Nick Curtis created a very nice version based on the very same catalog specimen years ago. It's so nice I bought it on Fonts.com for eight bucks.
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I have searched and searched finally found Nick Curtis fonts but not one that looks like this (Morning Glory).
Scroll up to post #6 in this thread Rik posted a link to it on myFonts.com :)
@Larry—
Trust it.
It's $8 and I don't see any way our group could render the font better.
Here's an example based on what I bought at >>>MyFonts.com<<<:
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By the way, these goofy sentences are called pangrams. They're designed to use every character at least once, a nifty and funny way to create a specimen for typefaces.
Thanks Gare and Frances. Thanks to Frances I did finally get to the font in question. I didn't realize Rik's post contained a link. I had spent some time searching and couldn't turn up anything. I looked for Nick Curtis, Nick Curtis fonts, thin fonts,anything I could think of, and, always came up empty.
Wow.
Larry, how do you conduct searches?
For this fonts forum, we really should be prepared to refer people to Myfonts.com, and tell them to use MyFonts' search box!
Doing that relieve me of $8 from PayPal almost instantly.
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