Gary perhaps these Capitals could become additions to the Designs Gallery > Clipart > letters collection?
Gary perhaps these Capitals could become additions to the Designs Gallery > Clipart > letters collection?
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Or how about a TG Collaborative Clip art Collection that could be published in the clip art gallery? Perhaps we could have as well as a .xar format (that can easily be added to the designs gallery) .pdf or .svg formats too? Thoughts?
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Sounds good to me.
Christine
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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.
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Gary
It all sounds good to me.
Larry a.k.a wizard509
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The typefaces looks really good!
Is it better to trace or redraw for such a project?
I guess a combination of both would work best...
Interesting elements to color and render also!
Marc
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@Gary - the stipling is an artifact of the bitmaps used in the Gallery display. Not something I would recommend for us to try and duplicate.
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