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The Galileo Lettering Gilding font is now available at the following web page. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/fonts.htm The following support document is also available at that web page. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/mosaic3.PDF The document shows all five fonts of the Galileo Letteri...

> I have not yet tried the fonts for a four-colour effect using the Paint program: I am hoping to try soon.

I have now tried it and it works well.

I would be interested to know of reader's experiences with using the fonts if possible please.

William

The Galileo Lettering Submosaic font is now available at the following web page. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/fonts.htm The following support document is also available at that web page. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/mosaic2.PDF The document shows all four fonts of the Galileo Lette...

I have now produced the Galileo Lettering Mosaic font and posted a note in the Galileo Lettering font thread in the Gallery forum.

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William

Regarding the idea for a mosaic effect font in the thread at http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?t=1014 in the Specification forum, the Galileo Lettering Mosaic font is now available at the http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/fonts.htm webpage. A three page support document, mosaic.PDF, is a...

The following webspace is interesting. http://www.typecon.com/ An interesting link from that page is as follows. http://www.typegallery.com/ The heading is in a mosaic design. I am thinking about how that effect could be produced using a set of TrueType fonts. I am thinking that nine fonts would be ...

Thank you for your posts. I notice that you wrote the following. quote In preparation, I used Font Creator to produce a set of connection point symbols. I got to the hinting stage, found a specification, I think on the Apple site, opened, read a bit, found the language and went Ahhhh I’ll leave this...

I searched for hinting language specification at http://www.google.com and found the following web page. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/SpecificationsOverview.mspx At the bottom of that page, at the left is the following. quote TrueType Specification The TrueType 1.66 specification is provided ...

I have been studying this matter further this morning and have found that looking for "hinting language" at http://www.google.com is interesting. One link I found is as follows. http://www.truetype.demon.co.uk/tthints.htm It appears that TrueType has a hinting language which is a low level...

I have had a look at your post and indeed looked up Gold parser generator at http://www.google.com yet I have not, as yet, mangaed to undestand what it is that you are seeking to achieve. For example, if the High Level Language for Hinting which you suggest were produced, how would it be used? For e...

A new version of the Artistic Text font, namely version 0.21 has been available on the web since 6.58 pm British Summer Time (1758 GMT) today. This version adds no glyphs. This morning I started a new font, Artistic Text 021 in ARTIS021.TTF, in Font Creator 5.0 and used the glyphs from the old versi...

Also, something I do when fontmaking is to make a diary as I go along. I do this in a text document file with a .htm suffix using WordPad. I started doing this with the idea that each such file could be a web page, though I have not yet published any of them. For example, here is the entry for one s...

A new version of the Chronicle Text font, namely version 0.18 has been available on the web since 3.52 pm British Summer Time (1452 GMT) this afternoon. This version adds no glyphs. This afternoon I started a new font, Chronicle Text 018 in CHRON018.TTF, in Font Creator 5.0 and used the glyphs from ...

> Open a new font file, and name it in howsoever many ways so that it exists only as itself? Well, not wishing to be pedantic, just precise, one does not "open" a "new" font file, as opening a file is done on a file which already exists. The following is what I do. Suppose that, ...

A new version of the Gothic Splendour font, namely version 0.10 has been available on the web since 11.20 am British Summer Time (1020 GMT) this morning. This version adds no glyphs. Yesterday afternoon I started a new font, Gothic Splendour 010 in GOTHI010.TTF, in Font Creator 5.0 and used the glyp...