Soquili Font: ready to proceed!!!

[Rik]

Here's the rest of mine.
The others are in Post #32.

[angelize]

Hi everyone. I already posted the first frame and finally here are frames 2 and 3. I hope I didn't hold you up Gary. Family matters kept me away from the computer over the weekend.

[Gare]

@ Frances—

Okay, I've wanted to say this for days:

"Hold your horses!"



Seriously, I'm still finessing many of the horses to become glyphs, so even if you submit the rest over the weekend, I still won't be all set to make the font.

Plus there's paperwork.

-g

[wizard509]

I have gone over, and over, and over this so guess I'll post my work and hope for the best.

Soquili-07-13.xar


I, Larry E. Leiker, as a contributor to the project undertaken by a group in the TalkGraphics.com Fonts and Typography Forum, to create the following font, Soquili TG, grant a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sub-license, and distribute [the] Contributions I made to the work and such derivative works.

I understand that this is a license agreement only; it does not transfer copyright ownership and does not change my rights to use the artwork I contributed for any other purpose.

Larry E. Leiker, Saint Peters, MO., USA

[Gare]

Larry, I just snagged your work and opened it, and it's fine, man, just as good as everyone else's splendid efforts.

Now I really need to finesse the drawings so they're not so literal in your tracing. Mostly because my model was a little crude on the mane and the tail, unavoidable to make the animation work as quickly as I got it working.

I want each drawing to be able to stand on its own as a glyph and nice artwork, and it only requires a little editing because everyone did exactly as we were asked: trace accurately over my inaccurate JPEGs.

It'll make sense after I compile and cook the font.

Larry, you and everyone did great, and I hope Bill is looking down at us and laughing.

My Best,

Gary

[wizard509]

Thanks for the encouragement Gare, I just wasn't sure.

[Gare]

I’d like to ask for a consensus here, but first, I’d like to explain why members toiled away tracing horse silhouettes and yet Bouton hasn’t come up with a tribute font for Bill Taylor yet.

The answer is: it’s not very good, not a fitting tribute to our dear departed friend. The concept I thought was a good one, to make 26 glyphs of a horse galloping, that if typed in sequence in an animation program (such as Xara), would result in a galloping animation.

I worked on the font from everyone’s generous work, but gave up after realizing this isn’t what we want to do to remember Bill. Trust me, it’s just not a great font.

May I please offer some sort of alternative plan? Does the typeface have to be Cherokee in theme? Would it not be enough tribute to create a handsome picture font, name it “Soquili” and deem that as appropriate?

I’d love to engage all in a discussion here. I’m available to compile a font, and I’ve even begun three or four originals I’d be good with just donating/remembering Bill by, no strings, just love.

PM if need be, and apologies if anyone felt jerked around.

I’m a volunteer, too.

My Very Best,

Gary