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?
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Pb