Excellent.PJMiller wrote:I will change the upper and lower case yogh for more curved versions like the ones in the Unicode charts.
Thank you.
William
Excellent.PJMiller wrote:I will change the upper and lower case yogh for more curved versions like the ones in the Unicode charts.
PJMiller in the Kelvinch Fontlog.txt file wrote:
27 & 28 February 2016
Re- designed the numbers 6, 8 and 9 for all fonts, re-designed lower case italic 'g' and put the Runes back in. The italic g was challenging because I didn't know what end result I was aiming for, I started out with the idea of making it a script g without the closed bowl at the bottom but kept on extending the descender round in a spiral and then a loop until it eventually met with the upper bowl so it is now back as a two bowl g but the design is quite different from the upright font.
Added the euro currency symbol to all fonts just for completeness, it is never used.
I have decided that the second font (with added MUFI) will only be developed if Kelvinch becomes popular.
25 February 2016
I came to a decision today.
I was going to build the ultimate font.
One font to rule them all,
One font in which to find them,
One font to bring them all,
and in a ligature bind them.
But it doesn't work! It's too big.
That MUFI specification contains a terrible large count of characters. Let's not be hasty, barr rarr rhum ...
I think it more sensible to split Kelvinch into two fonts both identical except for the coverage.
Kelvinch will have Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, Miscellaneous symbols and a few other things but not the MUFI characters or the Runes.
The new font which has yet to be named will not have Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, Miscellaneous symbols and Geometric shapes but will contain MUFI, Ancient Symbols, Gothic and Alchemical Symbols. If Kelvinch is a flop then I will just add the runes back in and not develop the new font.
I made a copy of Kelvinch as it was at the beginning of the evening, then I deleted the Runes and the Ancient Symbols and all the MUFI characters in the Private Use Area. That means Kelvinch is largely finished apart from a bit of a tidy up and adding some kerning pairs.
23 February 2016
Alas, some people might be looking for a stylish Venetian font with long-s glyphs and so on.PJMiller in the Kelvinch Fontlog.txt file wrote: I have decided that the second font (with added MUFI) will only be developed if Kelvinch becomes popular.
As the font is Venetian, I suggest a Venetian name.PJMiller in the Kelvinch Fontlog.txt file wrote: The new font which has yet to be named will not have Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, Miscellaneous symbols and Geometric shapes but will contain MUFI, Ancient Symbols, Gothic and Alchemical Symbols.
So the glyphs are available ready-done?PJMiller in the Kelvinch Fontlog.txt file wrote: I made a copy of Kelvinch as it was at the beginning of the evening, then I deleted the Runes and the Ancient Symbols and all the MUFI characters in the Private Use Area.
Some of them.William wrote:So the glyphs are available ready-done?PJMiller in the Kelvinch Fontlog.txt file wrote: I made a copy of Kelvinch as it was at the beginning of the evening, then I deleted the Runes and the Ancient Symbols and all the MUFI characters in the Private Use Area.
William Overington
29 March 2016
And by the same logic if it does not contain Hebrew some people might not want to use it and if it does not contain Thai some people might not want to use it. This is the trap I have already fallen into with Cyrillic, Georgian and Armenian. I only intended to add Cyrillic because there are an awfull lot of people who use the Cyrillic alphabet, the others were added because I couldn't abide the incompleteness of just adding Cyrillic.William wrote: Alas, some people might be looking for a stylish Venetian font with long-s glyphs and so on.
Kelvinch is a good font, yet there are many good fonts.
If the font with added MUFI were available it might possibly become more used than Kelvinch, simply because of the availability of a font with lots of MUFI glyphs in it.
I suggest not basing whether to produce the new font upon whether Kelvinch becomes popular.
Niether this font or the next one is going to be called Gondola, sorry but it ain't going to happen.William wrote: As the font is Venetian, I suggest a Venetian name.
How about
Gondola
as the name for the font?
If the font were named Gondola then you could, if you wished, produce a glyph of a line-drawn glyph of a Gondola, not too detailed, it needs to look good at 18 point and 24 point and include that glyph in the Private Use Area.
Then a document could have something like the following in it, in the colophon.
Typeset in the Gondola typeface
and then have the line-drawn glyph of the Gondola below it.