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

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 1:07
--- 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