OT - Font Design

[Wayne D]

'm scratching what's left of my one brain cell to remember where I saw something about designing a personal font set. I quickly found the $500+/- Fontagrapher from Macromedia on-line, but I remember something in XaraX or Corel about creating a new font from scratch?

HELP!


Wayne D

[Wayne D]

'm scratching what's left of my one brain cell to remember where I saw something about designing a personal font set. I quickly found the $500+/- Fontagrapher from Macromedia on-line, but I remember something in XaraX or Corel about creating a new font from scratch?

HELP!


Wayne D

[Soquili]

Hi Wayne,

I've read that Corel can be use to create a font. I think with XaraX you would need another program to read the vector information and create the font.

I use a program called FontLab. Just checked their website pyrus.com and they are expensive too. $549.00 USD for version 4.5 and I paid $300.00 USD for version 3 a couple of years ago.

Soquili

[alan e.]

Try this tool, Font creator programm (windows only), for creating TTF, supports raster to vector conversion, it's shareware and the registration is 50$, I think...

http://www.high-logic.com/fcp.html

(download cca. 3,5 MB)

[gwpriester]

can create custom fonts. Actually, you have to design the characters and then use CorelDRAW to create the font.

I wrote an article about this in CorelUser Magazine #68.

Sadly, CorelUser Magazine ceased publication several years ago. They were really good people. The magazine was published in the UK. They have a website with the publications listed and the contents but the article is not on-line.

Gary

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Wayne

I believe you're thinking of Laurie McCanna's Corel tutorial...
http://www.mccannas.com/othertip/corel1.htm
http://www.mccannas.com/type/type.htm

I also use Fontlab and picked it up for around $350US {$750 Canadian pesos} http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Here's a few other online tutorials you might want to look at:

http://www.larabiefonts.com/tutorial/tutorial1.html

http://www.chank.com/howto/

There's a great tutorial on Hinting:
http://agent.microsoft.com/typograph...g/tutorial.htm

Take a look at this site too:
www.myfonts.com

SlÃ*n leibh!
Reji

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[traceyp]

Gary

I didn't realise you had written that article. I used to belong to the CUA in fact I was on the committee for maybe 4 or 5 years until it's demise. I still have all my Corelusers and it hasn't taken long to find the article you refer to so I have it open in front of me. If you would give your permission I could do a PDF copy of your tutorial for anyone who may be interested.

Tracey

[gnurf]

Gary Bouton wrote a two-part article about font-creation with CorelDraw at designer.com, but I just noticed they have changed the site and I was completely lost http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Perhaps Gary B. himself can inform you.

-Paul

[Lottie]

by Gary Bouton on www.Graphics.com. This is part one:
http://graphics.com/modules.php?name...ticle&artid=37
the series is currently up to part two which you can access from the main page.

Lottie

[gwpriester]

Yes if anyone is interested you could make a PDF file with my compliments.

Designer.com had a grand re-opening in the summer of last year and almost as quickly a not so grand closing. They fired most of the staff. I have not heard whether they plan to re-open it again or whether it is dead in the water.

I have many articles that were on the old site on typography. Most were never linked to on the new site.

Gary

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