I have this morning uploaded the Great Bear Roman font to the web.
The font is incomplete; yet as I have not done anything to it for a long time I thought that I would upload it to the web as it is. It is version 0.13 of 9 November 2006.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/GRTBEARR.TTF
An earlier version of the font was used in the following publication.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/r ... nglass.PDF
It was the third in a collection of three pdfs.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/reusablebags.PDF
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/m ... lebags.PDF
William Overington
21 January 2008
Great Bear Roman
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Yesterday I produced an experimental version of the font as Great Bear Roman Expt version 0.13 in GRTBEARE.TTF, as a copy of Great Bear Roman version 0.13 with the change of using autometrics with left of 145 and right of 34. This is not a perfect solution yet I wish to try the two fonts in comparison. The 145 was chosen so that the lowercase o would have the same space to the left in both fonts and the 34 was chosen during experiments so that the h would have a width of 1024 font units.
I have just uploaded the GRTBEARE.TTF file to the web.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/GRTBEARE.TTF
I am wondering how is the best way to decide on the spacing between the characters in a serifed Roman font. Does anyone have any advice to offer please?
William Overington
22 January 2008
I have just uploaded the GRTBEARE.TTF file to the web.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/GRTBEARE.TTF
I am wondering how is the best way to decide on the spacing between the characters in a serifed Roman font. Does anyone have any advice to offer please?
William Overington
22 January 2008
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Although not specific for serif Roman fonts, I think this Spacing method might help.
I've read this book has some great letter spacing techniques explained:
Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design by Walter Tracy
Although no longer in print you could try to buy a used copy of:
Fontographer: Type by Design by Stephen Moye
I've read this book has some great letter spacing techniques explained:
Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design by Walter Tracy
Although no longer in print you could try to buy a used copy of:
Fontographer: Type by Design by Stephen Moye
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I found some text at Kern King, which I use in the Font Test window. That tends to show up some letters that are not well-spaced.
We're waiting for Erwin to develop a wizard to adjust bearings automatically. Something like optical kerning. Now that would save a lot of time. I always finish my font with all the composites, and then decide that the spacing is not quite right.
We're waiting for Erwin to develop a wizard to adjust bearings automatically. Something like optical kerning. Now that would save a lot of time. I always finish my font with all the composites, and then decide that the spacing is not quite right.
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Re: Great Bear Roman
Great Bear Roman in use.
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Re: Great Bear Roman
There is an image about three-quarters of the way down the following web page where I used the capital A of the Great Bear Roman font.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/outitems.htm
William Overington
Monday 20 February 2017
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/outitems.htm
William Overington
Monday 20 February 2017