First off, I’m a total newbie (even at 82 years old) to font creation/editing so please don’t slam me too hard for asking questions, LOL.
A font I use on my laser engraver a lot called “MagicSound”, a true type font, has no numbers or punctuation which I’m trying to add while keeping the funky shapes of the characters.
Basically I’m using the contours of some of the capital letters to create the numbers and so far I’ve been able to create a /zero (needed for amateur radio call signs in the zero district), plus the 1 and 2 by using the capital L and the capital S (flipped horizontally). I’d like to use the capital B for the number 3 by cutting parts of the back contours away to leave the shape of the 3, but here’s the rub, I can’t seem to find in the manual, or figure out how to draw or modify the contours to do that.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Jim Sheldon
I moved your topic to the Support Forum.
Have you discovered the the Knife Tool?
I had not, but thank you for pointing me in the right direction. That was exactly what I needed.
Like I said, I’m a total newbie, but boy, am I learning - LOL. I’m working on a font of my own for making Amateur Radio club name badges for a number of my friends, and I needed a font that was sort of funky but very readable with thick characters. I found several public domain fonts that were close but not exactly what I wanted so I swiped the best of both and combined them into my own font to use on the CAD program for my Laser Engraver/cutter. I’m still refining it, but it’s taking shape nicely and I’ve been trading my time between reading the excellent manual and just banging away trying various tools. Almost ready to put it to use and if the guys like it I’m going to title it JimsFunkyFont and may put it in the public domain for everyone to use/modify as they like.
Thanks again.
Jim Sheldon — you can close the thread if you like.
You need to respect the licence terms of the original fonts that you copied. Not all free fonts are in the public domain. Even those with an open GNU font licence may have conditions placed on their reuse.
Font Copyright.
Thanks Bhikkhu, but I well understand copyright laws and totally abide by them. The fonts I used were CLEARLY marked “Public Domain” or I would not have even suggested that the one I’m working on after combining parts of both would be released to the public.
Hey, I’ve been in this world 82+ years now, and I DO pay attention to what I can and cannot do legally.
Jim Sheldon
Sorry Bhikkhu for misspelling your name - I would have corrected it in the above post(s), but there isn’t an “Edit Post” feature on this forum.
I really thank you for the information and I now have exactly what I need to modify the characters to the way I need them to be.
Regards,
Jim Sheldon