The tg Font Collaboration Thread

[Gare]

I also have an idea for a future project, I have this nice wall paper in my kitchen that has images of spice bottles and the names of an assortment of spices

Hi Frances—

If were are to obey copyright laws (hint: we are), we can't use your wallpaper—nice as it might be—as a resource. All textile patterns—at least in the US and I suspect Canada, too—were created by graphic designs, and the pattern art belongs to the mill or other company that produced the wallpaper, gift wrap, clothing pattern, and so on. That's why you'll never see exactly the same design on a dress by different distributors.

I'm not campaigning to use the Linotype specimen book, or the other three Barbara procured, but the bottom line is they are Public Domain. All designs we trace over have to be PD, or we need permission from the creator.

Sorry to be a wet blanket, Frances! I occasionally riff on a pattern I see online, but if I think I'm coming too close, I don't show the art in public.

I think the very first step in the next typeface needs to be copyright permissions. I'd be nice to do a group font from scratch, but me, I couldn't volunteer that amount of time, and our gang here appear to enjoy the challence of accurate tracing of source material.

-g

[mwenz]

Here is #12885K from my page.

Take care, Mike

[mwenz]

17506L

Take care, Mike

[wizard509]

OK finally here are all my glifs. I saved the hardest for last. It's the top middle one I took a few liberties with it because I thought the line work was too delicate and didn't show well so I beefed it up just a little.

glifs.xar

[mwenz]

10005H

Take care, Mike

[mwenz]

10070K

Take care, Mike

[Soquili]

A correction to one of my glyphs.

[Gare]

Got it, Bill, thanks.

I'm spending the wee hours putting the next version of the font together, not a final, but you all will be able to play with a fairly complete typeface shortly, probably today.

We wouldn't be learning if I didn't mention 2 faults I'm running into.

First, it's very inventive to use Pressure Profiles—I do this all the time to then convert the line to a shape. But it adds unnecessary nodes, that's just the nature of Xara's Pressure Profiles, and I asked last year that another look is taken at this feature.



The other thing is that when you flip a copy to complete a gylph, you have to make sure the inner sides touch and probable overlap before you Add Shapes.

I'm seeing some microscopic gaps at the center of gylphs. I've repaired them, but please do use Xara's fantastic zoom capability to nail these guys.

This is one of the most professional collection of gylphs, intricate and valuable, and I want people to use this font and marvel at the craftsmanship.

My Best,

Gary

[Gare]

I put version 2 together of the font, worked the code pages, Bill, and I've attached the vfb project file along with a TTF and an OTF version of the font.

Try it out: I've done custom spacing and kerning so you can, for example, type 777, and the gylph becomes a border. Let me know what's wrong (I think there's a dupe in there), and let's get however many more to make it a complete typeface. I've also tried to organize the glyphs in some sort of similarity: Art Deco, Victorian, no classification.




Here's what's left to go, 15 I think:



-g-

[angelize]

Hi guys, is it just me or is it getting a bit confusing discussing two different projects in the same thread? Perhaps we should finish the burgeon stamps font in this thread and if Larry and Christine want to begin on the Morning Glory or was it roundhouse? Perhaps Larry, you or I could move the posts pertaining to that project into a new thread? Opinions?

I have one more glyph to do in my set so I hope to have them posted later this afternoon