TG font collaboration #2 Roundhead

**Soquili** · 22 April 2012, 06:48 PM

No harm done Fred. I did not notice it for awhile, it all blends together.

**angelize** · 23 April 2012, 01:50 AM

Ok Bill has asked for 59 more glyphs so we need volunteers to create them!

I have broken them up into 5 groups of ten and one group of nine so as each volunteer steps up I'll assign your glyphs!

With a bit more work we can have this font ready to follow on the heels of the Burgeon font!

**Fred C** · 23 April 2012, 02:48 AM

Ready to help, what can I do?

**Christine Farrelly** · 23 April 2012, 04:16 AM

I'll do some.

Christine

**angelize** · 23 April 2012, 06:27 AM

Thanks Fred and Christine and I'll do a set too so that leaves 4 sets.

Fred here are yours:

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Christine here are yours:

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Remember these images are just to show you what glyphs you need to create not for tracing

**Purrfeck** · 23 April 2012, 09:57 AM

Originally Posted by angelize

My thoughts on Michelle's glyphs: I think the thicker glyphs might work better with the font, like the second euro sign, the first ampersand and the pound sterling sign, but I would like to hear other's opinions on this. Also you have a duplicate ampersand in your .xar file Michelle you have two of the curly one I'd like to see the thicker one if we could.

Hi Frances, I have re-done some of the fonts and thickened them up etc., and reduced the fonts to the main ones in this second batch of fonts. When you can, see what you think now.

As for the glyphs that are left, do you need any assistance with these if so, what is required?

**Gare** · 23 April 2012, 11:14 AM

WOAH!

The accented characters can be added to the typeface by building a combo of already used characters and just the accent marks.

It's early and I forget what this is called, but ask Adam about this. It keeps the file size down when you reference a character instead of using the same one again and again. I think it's called a composite when you reference a character and add something to it.

Saves the group work, too!

-g-

**Fred C** · 23 April 2012, 01:39 PM

Good Mornin' Gare,

Yes, found it, 'composite' or precomposed; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precomposed_character
Let's see what Adam says.

**Soquili** · 23 April 2012, 01:46 PM

It is called Compositing and that is what I planned to do but obviously I neglected to mention that in my previous post.

The font is looking pretty good. Gary will be taking a look at the .vfb file and making some nips and tucks where needed.

Here is a sample image of how things are going so far.