Re: Tinkerfont - Any con-alphabet you want it to be

--- Jonathyn Bet'nct <jonrelay@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:33:56 -0800, Gary Shannon
> <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> > Tinkerfont
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> I think this is freakin' awesome! I can't wait to
> see a final product.
Thanks.  Here's another idea that just came to me.
With tinkerfont you can literally DESIGN a font using
MS Word, or any other word processor that will let you
load the Tinkerfont.ttf.  You can type in the glyph
pieces and see instantly how they look when assembled
together into a single character.

THEN...

You could produce a text document with each definition
and what ASCII key to which you want to assign that
definition, and I could write a program that would
read in your text file and create a real genuine ttf
font for your very own custom font, with each glyph
you created assigned to the letter you specified in
the text file.

With these two pieces; Tinkerfont and the conversion
program you could build a brand new conlang font from
scratch using nothing but a text editor!

Plus, once I get Tinkerfont done I could create a
several versions of it for a sans serif tinkerfont
like Arial or Tahoma, a serif tinkerfont like Times
New Roman or Bookman, a script-style tinkerfont, a
brush style like comic, a bold and italic, or outline
style, and so on.  That way once you create your own
conlang font in MS Word the conversion program could
generate a font file for each of those different
styles automatically!

I'm really getting jazzed about this idea!  Conlang
font creation has never been this easy.

--gary