Yes, let's break it out of Burgeon, please.
I think Christine prefers Roundhead over Morning Glory...I like them both.
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Yes, let's break it out of Burgeon, please.
I think Christine prefers Roundhead over Morning Glory...I like them both.
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Done :) The discussion for the Roundhead font ( at least I think that's the one Larry and Christine are working on) now has it's own thread.
so Burgeon Stamps here and Roundhead there: TG-font-collaboration-2-Roundhead
Christine prefers the Roundhead font, so I am doing Morning Glory.
Then let's split this thread out, eh?
I like both typefaces, but prefer Morning Glory.
This is a daunting challenge! Larry, Frances (and Rik in absentia): can the governing bodies here help distribute part of the workflow and watch over procedures? I'm sort of tied up finalizing the Burgeon font, and as we've seen in the Burgeon thread, it's a lot of work and a lot of contribution and opinions. And that's what makes the group font.
I want to keep it as a group effort for the sake of tg, folks. I think everyone has learning something, and will continue to, but only if we have more than one individual working on a project. I think Christine might make a good Project Leader, as I was, on the Roundhead font, and Larry's into the Morning Glory, and at very least will need Mike or Bill to help compile the typeface.
Group assignments? I recommend it!
I know for a fact this forum is attracting attention, and I want the lurkers to see that we have a system and are working together on tg on this exciting stuff! Appearance is everything :)
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Sounds good to me Gare, you are right it is a lot of work.
So Larry, you have permissions here to start a new thread, you're the leader of the Morning Glory Initiative, you should solicit help.
I haven't heard from Michele, but she's a good designer and produced some good traces on burgeon, and with the exception of Mike and Frances, there's three other people you know of who are familiar with the work...and probably ten or more lurkers we need to draw in.
Go for it, pal.
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Ok this sounds good to me. I will volunteer to oversee and help Christine with the roundhead font. I like that one too.
I finally got that last glyph done! :D so here is my set. I hope my work measures up to everyone elses wonderful work!
Attachment 88758
The top glyph, the one that the file opens to, looks great, Frances.
By the way, when a "repeat" is suggested, you don't have to do it 17 times! :)
Twice, perhaps, or wherever the edge is in the repeat, and then you tell the user to type gggggg, or whatever.
My bad for not alerting folks to this font making shortcut.
I'll be back tomorrow with what I consider the Ready for Prime Time typeface. Then Bill can critiqué my assembling.
Hats off to all!
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Here's round 3.
We need five more glyphs. I can add some, but I'd prefer the executive position I appointed myself to :).
Gary there is a duplicate within the glyphs, the b and r.
EDIT: also the e and j are duplicate glyphs only different sizes.
Cool, thanks, Bill.
They'd be easier to spot if they were characters and not symbols, you know? :)
Okay, SIX is the number for luck Friday the 13th. We need SIX m ore gylphs.
I'll spot you guys for 3 of them; I've got a few pre-traced. Can I have three more glyphs? Mike, are you holding?
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Found another pair of duplicates, the e and j. The j is much smaller is size.
Feel cross eyed after looking at all the details to find duplicates. :D
Then you can imagine how I feel.
Or don't :)
Get me some more glyphs!
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Who has been holding back? :D
Anyone still have some yet to be traced?
Gary I corrected one of my glyphs within the .vfb file. Two outlines met rather than remain parallel. I used FontLab 3.1 because it is still more familiar to me.
Hi guys and girls, I've been having a break and catching up with all the threads. Sing out if you need me to help out with whatever is needed next...ok
Hiya, all—
If someone, or two, or three, will do these seven glyphs, we'll be done, and can then finalize what we want to say in the font, and how to promote it, and Bill can sift through one last time for errors.
Decide among yourselves, and if I can't get seven more tracings, I'll do them myself to get some closure going on the Celebratede Burgeon Ornaments TG.
My Best,
GaryAttachment 88772
I'll work on the glyphs.
Your work is excellent, Bill, but if you want to break out a few and assignment them, or wrangle volunteers, it'd be only fair, you know?
TIA,
Gare
If anyone wants to volunteer, it will not hurt my feelings. :D
I just got back from my first trip out of the house in days, and am in a good mood so I'll volunteer to do one or two :)
Thanks Frances. There are exactly two left to be traced.
The .zip contains the .xar files for the 5 that have been traced.
Just butting in for two sec's—
Frances, mind the placement of your control points. If possible, do not auto-trace.
And make sure if there's a straight line, it's exactly 0 or 90 degrees.
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I'll get started on those ASAP. I didn't Auto trace any of the shapes I did, I'll try to do better on these two! :)
Ok Here are the last two Bergeon Stamps. I hope they are ok. :)
Attachment 88785
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Attachment 88789
I have attached a ZIP and a VFB file of a semi-corrected version.
Take care, Mike
Last one of mine (finally) I believe.
10314H
Attachment 88818
So are they finally all in? Any one still working on Bergeon Stamps?
I have all the glyphs we need for the ideal number of registers in the font.
I'm closing on the April Xara Xone, will get back to the Burgeon font on Wednesday.
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Gary if you don't mind I corrected my corrected glyph for the 13306G ornimental stamp.
Just for fun a Xara 3D Maker 7 play with that 13306G glyph, copied from DP7 and pasted into X3DP7.
Not at all, Bill.
By the way, this month's Xara Xone tutorial is live now, and it's on typography, fonts, and jes' plain good design.
Larry has the Guest Tutorial spot in April.
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I've watched the video twice now, great work. BTW did you really buy that flamingo or did you already have one? ;)
I think that extruded tile looks really pretty Bill.
I'm thinking that when the Bergeon font is complete and posted in the TG Free and fixed Font gallery maybe we should have a Font Play thread with it?
Thanks Frances.
I think this would be great for a font play.
Hats off to all involved!
Gare
Hi Gary--which number?
Mike
Hi Mike—
It has to do with not just the glyph, but all the other glyphs in the typeface. I know (and so do you) that your MyFont.vfb will indeed export correctly...but it only has one character.
You have 1,697 control points there on 191 combined paths according to a utility I used.
Um, that's a lot. PostScript is limited to 200 control points and I believe the hypothetical limit to Truetype is 900, but DO NOT quote me on this. The upper limit is derived from a combination of control points, control handles, and number of vectors versus curves.
It's a beautiful drawing, Mike.
But it's a top-heavy glyph, fer shure.
My fault for assigning it to someone. Future (?) picture fonts I'd recommend no more than 400 control points.
My machine was dragged to its knees, and it's not a Dell laptop, okay? And when my box did perform, FontLab 4.5 and 5 crashed.
So there's a lesson here. I'll observe it in the future and we all can learn that: just because a drawing is nice, elegant, or intricate, this doesn't necessarily make it a good candidate for a typeface.
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