The tg Font Collaboration Thread

[Christine Farrelly]

here's mine - hope they are OK.

Christine

TGFont_4.xar

[Gare]

Hi Christine—

That's a lot of work, and generally it looks great and usable. There are one or two problems I can correct for you when I put the shapes into FontLab and into our group typeface.

You had a couple of nodes that support extreme changes in direction and an additional control point needs to go next to it. When the fulcrum of a curve is too far away from its origin, programs that read vector files (eg. Xara, modeling programs, typeface engines), there's often a problem rendering them to screen and for printing. Ideally, control points are evenly spaced along a character's outline, and used only when there is an abrupt change in the path.

That said, these are wonderful, thank you, the group thanks you...and I will try to put together a "proof of concept" version of this font over the weekend.

We should take it slowly so Frances can participate when she gets back.



My Best,

Gary

[wizard509]

Not to worry Gare, I haven't finished mine yet. I'm going as hurryingly as I can.

[Gare]

The approach is not to hurry, pal!

We'll get there, with everyone's help and patience, and I already have project #2 waiting in the wings, more fun, more group participation.

Slow 'n' easy, Larry!

I'll be here, promise, not going anywhere.

-g-