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Let me see if I can't get something going again. I'll check back in in a few days, okay? I've sort of been living in FontLab for the past two days, the font idea shouldn't be hard to pull up and...

I'm just ducking in for two secs.

Mike, that's amazing; you did a superb job on the stitchwork.

How are other contributors (such as I) going to compete?

:)

Well done, friend,

I wasn't singling you out, Mike, I'm sorry if I suggested that!

I just think at this point, over a year after our friend passed away, we're suffering from over-discussion, we're all busy with...

Larry and All—

I'm thinking I'm going to take this decidedly stalled effort private: IOW, I've got a collection of Native Cherokee patterns and I will trace them off and make a decorative typeface...

I'm just getting 2% anxious that this collaborative tribute doesn't get stalled.

Whatever it becomes.

-g

Are we collectively anywhere on this after a September break?

Seriously? Should we move forward by someone directing us and handing out work?

-g

@Frank,

Now, remembering that glyphs in a typeface have only one color, and the negative space is merely space, to do Bill as a drawing and to do it with sensitivity, I'm attaching three screening...

You pull this one off, and you certainly will be The Man of The Hour, Frank.

Don't worry about coding the glyphs—that would be the least I can do after contributing to stalling the project.

My...

Cherokee, Larry (and all).

Either the tribe didn't have very many artists as good as Bill (!) or my resources are poor.

-g

@ Larry and all—

The following are screen snags of two typefaces I've worked on but have not completed and would be more than willing to "give them up" to honor Bill Taylor.

Other possibilities...

It's going to be much harder to choreograph, Frank, because it has to be a collaborative effort.

I'll tell you what, though: I have two typeface fonts I've never finished, and they have nothing to...

@Rik—

I agree with your post, and this sort of goes back to what I'd mentioned: Native American tapestry patterns could be terrific for bordars in documents, and it could also be used as...

Whatever the general consensus is, but I'll feel guilty that I let other members who worked on the drawings down by "copping out" here.

It's guilt I'll come to terms with, no big deal.

@Larry,...

I'm not stuck on creating a typeface to honor Bill, it's just that a font has value, as I suggested, as a cooperative donation thing, while a repository of Bill's work 1.) might require permission...

We're here to discuss, Larry.

When I mention "picture font", this includes all non alpha-numerical numbers, and if we could gather 26 Native American patterns from woven goods, whatever, I can see...

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...

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...

@ 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...

Thanks, all.

I will get to them summarily (it's Sunday, and I need to get the Xara Xone going for May).

-g

There's no way to have Xara count the control points, at least no way that's obvious to me, Larry, so just think "economical" as you draw, okay?

I can live with layers, individual files, whatever,...

You're good, Rik, and thanks.

Try to keep the number of control points to a minimum without hampering your artwork.

The more control points we host in this typeface, the larger it will get in...

@Everyone

DON'T TRACE the SHADOW.

I know I'd suggested it earlier, but it detracts from our work with the font and doesn't directly relate to a tribute to Bill.

Thanks for bringing it up,...

I, Gary Bouton, have downloaded Frances' tracings.

:)

and...

I, Gary David Bouton, as a contributor to the project undertaken by a group in the TalkGraphics.com Fonts and Typography Forum,...

It's all good!

Now bear in mind that I don't have an assistant for compiling the font...I'll be going solo here and it's tricky work if we want a good font, so please bear with me as you finish...

@Stygg—

I am not an optometrist, but your eyes appear to be fine to me! Your work is splendid, and I see you did the shadow as a separate piece. If everyone does this (it is NOT required), I could...