Sonnet Calligraphic

In the thread entitled Pantone Colour of the Year for 2012 and fonts, there is a graphic displaying two new Sonnet Calligraphic glyphs, namely a calligraphic o glyph and an additional calligraphic g glyph.

Here is the font that contains the two new glyphs.
SONNC037.TTF (43 KB)
Here is an extract from the transcript.


Add a glyph at U+E6AC Alt 59052.
Copy the glyph of U+E642.
Move 224 font units upward and change to become a calligraphic o, copying the contours of an o.

Also, try a sweeping back g.

Add a glyph at U+E6AD Alt 59053.
Copy the glyph of U+E5C1


The font also contains four experimental free-standing calligraphic flourishes that I produced while experimenting on 18 August 2011.

Here is some transcript.


Thursday 18 August 2011

2:59 pm

Open SONNC035.TTF.

Save as SONNC036.TTF.

Use Tools AutoNaming… so as to adjust the name and date.

Try to add some flourishes starting at U+E6F0 Alt 59120.

Add a cell at U+E6F0 Alt 59120.
Try to add a stand-alone flourish based on the flourish of the lowercase pp at U+E5DB.

Add a cell at U+E6F1 Alt 59121.
Try to add a stand-alone flourish based on the flourish of the lowercase pp at U+E5DC.

Add a cell at U+E6F2 Alt 59122.
Try to add a flourish based on that in U+E6F0 by replacing the leftmost 1024 font units with a double mirrored copy of the rightmost 512 font units, positioned so as to join together.

That does not seem to look good aesthetically, so add a cell at U+E6F2 Alt 59123.
Try to add a flourish based on that in U+E6F2 by replacing the centre decoration with a horizontal straight line.

3:43 pm


Viewed some months later, the flourish at U+E6F2 Alt 59122 seems much better than I thought at the time that I produced it.

William Overington

23 December 2011