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Re: New Script styles......

From:Paul Bennett <paulnkathy@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 16:56
On 25 Jan 00, at 2:44, Barry Garcia wrote:

> paulnkathy@earthlink.net writes: > >Very Nice! > > > >I've dug out all my sofware (All? Feh!, but it's adequate for now) and > >most > >of my data, and I'd like to offer a ttf of the angular style. We should > >not have any of the previous problems with "jaggies" thanks to the clean, > >crisp edges, though I may have to reduce the boldness of it to ensure it > >is > >readable at smaller sizes. > > > >May I? (I'm itching to get back working with my Font prog, as it's been > >far too long for someone with my addiction to typestyles. :-) > > Sure, I have absolutely no problem with you doing a font for it. I > remember when you unsubscribed last we were in the middle of doing a font, > but then, as you know I changed my mind and now we have the final (I > promise!) version of the script.
Yeah, erm sorry about scooting half-way through a project, (e|i)mmigrating was a fairly spontaneous move [*], so things were kinda up in the air all over the place. Hopefully, I'm not due to change landmasses again for a while, so I should be a little more reliable. [*] Well, it was planned as an "eventually", but it became an "imminently" in a very short, unexpected period.
> Would it be any trouble for you if I created a more "handwritten" style > for the script (rounded character forms)? I also need to make up a new > punctuation system, so dont complete the font just yet ;).
That'd be great! Please, if you do a more curvy form, please can you do as you did for the old "scryll" font and provide high-resolution pure black-on- white images, so they'll convert to outlines as easily as possible? --- Pb