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by honest.bern
Sun Mar 06, 2022 10:57 am
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Coloured font for playing-card suits
Replies: 0
Views: 12551

Coloured font for playing-card suits

Made with: FontCreator Professional
Version 11.5.0.2430 (64-bit)

Bern-suits is a chromatic font intended for use at text sizes.

I made it to catalogue my collection of playing cards. All the characters are suit signs.
by honest.bern
Fri Aug 21, 2020 6:55 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Bern-cursive - my joined-up font
Replies: 0
Views: 8039

Bern-cursive - my joined-up font

My aim was to imitate my joined-up handwriting as a boy. (My current handwriting is rather different.) The ascenders and descenders are childish and match the x-height. The font is monoline to imitate a ballpoint pen. I do not intend inflicting this font on the wider world. I wanted to explore conte...
by honest.bern
Wed Nov 06, 2019 5:06 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Connecting marks with cursive attachments ?
Replies: 8
Views: 6415

Re: Connecting marks with cursive attachments ?

There is a third possibility. W3C establishes standards for web browsers but no browser implements all of them correctly. Sometimes a feature is rendered correctly by the browser on screen but not in print or in the print preview. It may be that your code is correct, and that FontCreator has process...
by honest.bern
Wed Jul 03, 2019 7:43 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Arabic-style script with initial, medial etc. forms
Replies: 5
Views: 4261

Re: Arabic-style script with initial, medial etc. forms

What is pausal? Is it "before punctuation that indicates a pause" such as comma, stop etc?
by honest.bern
Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:21 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: Question re working with color
Replies: 6
Views: 6491

Re: Question re working with color

I have found my version 11 procedure at last. Procedure for chromatic fonts in FontCreator 11.0 Professional Edition 1. “Color mode” icon (below “Window” menu) select “Monochrome” or “Auto” not “Color”. 2. Insert extra glyphs after each glyph that needs colours 1. Original glyph contains unaltered c...
by honest.bern
Tue Dec 18, 2018 8:59 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: Question re working with color
Replies: 6
Views: 6491

Re: Question re working with color

This is the procedure that I worked out for chromatic fonts in FontCreator 9.1 Professional Edition 1. “Color mode” icon (below printer icon) select “Monochrome” or “Auto” not “Color”. 2. Insert extra glyphs after each glyph that needs colours 1. Original glyph contains unaltered contours. (This sho...
by honest.bern
Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:38 am
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: playing card font
Replies: 1
Views: 2224

playing card font

I am using FontCreator 11.5 Professional. In the past we made symbol fonts with code points up to (decimal) 255. Nowadays we are encouraged to make Unicode fonts and put the symbols in the code points assigned by Unicode. (I have no problem with this.) I would like to make a font for playing cards. ...
by honest.bern
Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:56 pm
Forum: Site Issues
Topic: Login Not being remembered
Replies: 5
Views: 19345

Re: Login Not being remembered

Thank you. I had the same problem.
by honest.bern
Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:57 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
Topic: [FIXED] Window resizing bug (in OTD)?
Replies: 17
Views: 11895

Re: Window resizing bug (in OTD)?

I have the same problem.
I use 11.5.0.2421 (64-bit) Professional.
I cannot use the double-headed yellow arrow, because I cannot see it
by honest.bern
Mon Nov 13, 2017 10:16 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: Yes italic, no regular
Replies: 29
Views: 22212

Re: Yes italic, no regular

“-ib9” at the end of a word is “-ibus”, the dative or ablative plural of a third declension noun or adjective.

“-q3” at the end of a word is “-que”, a suffixed “and”.

“faueāt” is “faveant”.

However, I am not going to attempt a translation.
by honest.bern
Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:39 pm
Forum: General Font Discussions
Topic: Tool to measure font colour
Replies: 7
Views: 14320

Re: Tool to measure font colour

My original aim was to measure (for each glyph) the ratio of the area of ink to the area of the rectangle formed by WinAscent, WinDescent, the left side bearing, and the right side bearing. The purpose was not to compare the colour of different fonts, but how much colour varies between letters withi...
by honest.bern
Sun Oct 29, 2017 8:06 pm
Forum: General Font Discussions
Topic: Tool to measure font colour
Replies: 7
Views: 14320

Re: Tool to measure font colour

I really want to learn about font colour because I know so little about it. In “Designing Type” Cheng writes: “…The disadvantages of the classic system led to the creation of the new, ‘modern’ system… Modern proportions are based on achieving even colour; each letter is designed to contain the same ...
by honest.bern
Sat Oct 28, 2017 9:22 pm
Forum: General Font Discussions
Topic: Tool to measure font colour
Replies: 7
Views: 14320

Tool to measure font colour

Could anyone point me to a tool to measure the colour of letters in a font? I do not mean rgb colour but the ratio of black and white areas?
by honest.bern
Sat Jun 17, 2017 11:35 am
Forum: Type Design
Topic: Cyrillic Blackletter font
Replies: 21
Views: 36313

Re: Cyrillic Blackletter font

Two years ago in Salonica I took a picture of this shop sign (6552.jpg). It uses three Greek styles. The interesting one is the middle one. It appears to be Greek made to look like textura. I guess that it reads: “Γ. Ελεvιδη”. I think it shows a compromise between keeping Greek letter shapes and usi...
by honest.bern
Sun May 14, 2017 6:41 am
Forum: Site Issues
Topic: format of posts to the forum
Replies: 4
Views: 11942

Re: format of posts to the forum

And thank you, again, for what you did to my main post: it looks just the way I wanted it to look.