Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady

[William]

The Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font is now published, starting with version 0.14.

This is directly derived from the PTEXT014.TTF Pixel Text 014 font, by deleting unused glyphs and the unmapped glyphs produced during the development process, then calculating the ranges and then validating the font.

The font is still incomplete, yet I wish to use the font in a pdf and for the name of the font to be displayed in the properties of the pdf document, so I have produced the font.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/SONNETRL.TTF

Readers evaluating the font might perhaps like to copy some of the text from the following document, paste it into WordPad or some other program of their choice, then display at 24 point.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/c ... est002.PDF

William Overington

[William]

Some readers might like a copy of a new font, Sonnet Large Initials, which is now available.

It is available as a free download.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/SONNETLI.TTF

It is a font of large initials intended for use to augment the Sonnet to a Reniassance Lady font, which font has been available as a free download for some time.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/SONNETRL.TTF

There is also a pdf showing an example of the two fonts in use together.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l ... s_test.PDF

William Overington

27 July 2007

[William]

Version 0.181 of the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font is now available on the web. This replaces the version previously at that web address.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/SONNETRL.TTF

The numerals 2, 3, 6, 8 and 9 are now included, the 5 has been redesigned and a glyph to serve as an asterisk has been added as well.

William Overington

7 August 2007

[William]

Version 0.23 of the font is now available. It replaces version 0.181 which is the version which was available previously.

Readers who already have the earlier version and who would like to conserve it rather than delete it might like to change the file name of the earlier version to become SONNETRL0181.TTF and, if it were installed in the fonts directory of a computer, to move it to another directory.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/SONNETRL.TTF

The new version of the font has the following additional glyphs, all in the Unicode Private Use Area. Most are ligatures. The new ct glyph is a copy of the ct glyph which was already at U+E707. It is mapped to U+EEC5. They will probably show as black boxes in this forum post.

          

They are as follows.

U+E431 at ligature
U+E432 ot ligature
U+E433 swash e
U+E434 swash p
U+E470 AR ligature
U+E708 ch ligature
U+E709 ck ligature
U+E714 sh ligature
U+E715 sk ligature
U+E773 ffj ligature
U+EEC5 ct ligature

William Overington

24 March 2008

[William]

Here is a link to a typecase_ pdf for the alternates and some of the ligatures in the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/t ... atures.pdf

The "some" is because those ligatures which are in regular Unicode (ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl, long s t and st) are not in the pdf as they decompose when copied and pasted and also the fi and fl ligature glyphs at the old U+F001 and U+F002 Microsoft mappings are not in the pdf.

Here a word is set using the pdf as a typecase during the preview stage of making this post while testing the link.

Sprin

Copying and pasting to WordPad and formatting in the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font displays the effect.

Some readers might like to try setting the word Spring in WordPad for themselves using the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font and using the typecase_ facility to copy and paste an alternate glyph for the g character, noting that there is a choice of alternate glyphs for the g character and trying various of them.

William Overington

22 August 2008

[bobcdy]

Have you posted the font for download that was used in your pdf file
'Testing the Calligrapher and Calligrapher Ornament Font'? I rather like it and it offers
many differences compared to the usual alphanumeric fonts.
Bob

[William]

Have you posted the font for download that was used in your pdf file
'Testing the Calligrapher and Calligrapher Ornament Font'? I rather like it and it offers
many differences compared to the usual alphanumeric fonts.
Bob

Thank you for your interest in my font.

No, I have not posted the font for download. At present I cannot find it! From the date of the pdf and the dates in the thread mentioned later in this post, I think that it was made on another PC, one which broke down, though the fault was not with the hard disc, which was removed after the breakdown, so I might be able to locate the font and use the artwork in a modern font as a "recovered artwork" font.

I have found that the font is mentioned in some posts that I made in the following thread, which thread was started by Erwin on 3 Mar 2005.

New tutorial - My First Font

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=858

The pdf to which you refer is available as follows.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/c ... est002.PDF

It is available from a link near the end of the following web page.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/fonts.htm

William Overington

27 February 2009

[bobcdy]

Thanks for the rapid reply. Best wishes in finding the font.
Bob