Font Forum

Help! I reworked a font and deleted many unnecessary glyphs. Changed a few things in the format -> naming blanks, and all looks ok. Saved the font as true type. However, when I double click on the new font name, nothing appears except the font name. There is no "The quick brown fox..." in ...

I'll search further, but I must say that free italic small cap fonts seem to be very scarce, although they do exist in commercial font families that are quite expensive and could not legally be embedded in an epub anyway. Actually for SSI, the suit was about a single font that Adobe documented was t...

Recently I've become involved in creating epub ebooks. Mostly I've been working on making epubs of very old (late 1700s, early 1800s) science books, and occasionally I need to embed one or more fonts to emulate some of the old book text. Recently I found I need both all-caps regular and all-caps ita...

I've modified a few glyphs as suggested (I couldn't see the multiple nodes for wolframite even at high mag). A problem is that the thickness of the lines obscures details in a few cases such as the diakisdodecahedron. The glyph looks like there are nodes at odd places but this is because there are t...

Thanks for the suggestion. Actually, I used FontLab to be certain that all the vertical/horizontal lines were correct, because FL shows such problems with a red arrow. I think most, if not all, such lines are aligned properly. The only problem I really had was with my drawing program, Corel Designer...

Finally got my revised version of crystal drawing font finished and posted. The url is http://www.ge-at.iastate.edu/Cody/fonts/Font1a_FC.ttf and the pdf file that goes with it is http://www.ge-at.iastate.edu/Cody/fonts/New_crystal_font.pdf As with the previous version, any suggestions for improvment...

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

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

Great thanks to Dick and Bhikku for the time and efforts to help improve my font! Still a bit to do and I'll start working on the changes today. I hadn't realized the details that go into making a well-styled font and the suggested improvements may take a bit of time, especially to learn how make th...

I've redrawn the three fonts that gave bad vibes on Validation, made the most obviously misaligned crystals so that they are aligned vertically, and adjusted the left and right bounding lines so that the characters are more evenly spaced than before. Validation shows no errors now. I've reposted the...

Thanks for the tips. I'll do what you suggest.
Bob

Just finished my first symbol font; it has 26 drawings of minerals taken from various mineralogy texts. Some might use it as decorations, borders, etc. FontCreator 5 is a really great and easy to use program. I have access to FontLab and tried to use it for the font but could never get it to correct...