Proposal for a new group typeface intiative

[Gare]

@Bill—

That's handsome artwork, those ornamental caps, for sure, Bill.
My only reservation might be: I can't get a good look, but that appears to be stippling within the characters. If so, that would be wicked hard and time-intensive to reproduce as vectors, no?

I think it's great to provide the graphics community with ornamental caps as clipart. I suggest both XAR and PDF, because PDF is marginally easier to import into Xara, Illustrator, CorelDRAW, and possibly Inkscape, haven't checked.

I'd like to suggest a sort of balance as we move forward with group projects.

When something is way complicated, like one of the gylphs from the Burgeon set that has 4,000 control points, a reproduction is more appropriately created as a vector file.

When the gylphs are reasonably simple, I suggest going the typeface distribution route is preferred, because a typeface can be shared across platforms, and because a collection of glyphs can't be separated accidentally.

And there's no rule that the stuff we are allowed to trace has to be curve-for-curve. Here's an example of two variations on the Bradley ornamental caps I posted.



My Best,

Gary