TG font collaboration #2 Roundhead

[Soquili]

Christine has a complete set of numbers, lower case, and upper case glyphs.

[Fred C]

Here's my lowercase and numbers. I will send a newer version of my Caps (nodes reduced/optimized) as soom as I can, hopefully this evening.

Regards to all,

[Soquili]

Frances, Larry, and Rik, please decide which set of glyphs from each contributer are to be used for the various segments of the font.

Everyone has provided great drawings.

[Fred C]

...and here the Caps. There are some alternate glyphs; we'll need to decide if/how to use them.

[Christine Farrelly]

Bill, I am quite happy for Fred's glyphs to be used, we interpreted them differently but Fred's will make a smaller font file, fewer nodes.

Christine

[angelize]

Ok first I have a few real world items to take care of, so I'm not sure how much time I'll have for forum stuff for the next couple of days. So either you will have to wait for me or if someone will volunteer to check the .xar files we have so far and look for consistency would be much appreciated.

And Fred, did you do over all of the glyphs Christine did?

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.

The fancy alternative glyphs I did I think would be nice as extras, and I haven't had time to look at Larry's file.

[Soquili]

Thank you Christine, I would like for glyphs from everyone to be included.

Alternate glyphs are easily added using Open Type Font features but currently Xara applications do not support their use. We can add them by replacing some little used glyphs.

TalkGraphics is an international forum with members that use umlaut, tilde, grave, cedilla, etc so I would like to include the highlighted glyphs shown in the attached image.

[Gare]

You can support the unusually placed gylphs in a keyfinder document, exactly as was done for Burgeon.

And in the keyfinder, you might want to include the extended character key combos.

Example: Very few people need to use Æ in desktop publishing. So slug your extra character into this slot in FontLab, and then in the keyfinder PDF, mention the combo is Alt+0196.

-g-

[Soquili]

Thanks Gary good advice.

[Fred C]

...And Fred, did you do over all of the glyphs Christine did?

Yes, everything was from scratch; I did not use any of Christine's versions.

I just noticed that I named the .xar file for the caps (post #64) 'Roundtop', when it should have been 'Roundhead'.