I remember reading, in a book about the writing of poetry, that writing poetry is more popular than the reading of it.
It appears that many people write poetry, yet relatively few people read poetry written by others.
Is a similar situation true of making (hobbyist) fonts and looking at (hobbyist) fonts made by others and making (hobbyist) graphic art and looking at (hobbyist) graphic art made by others?
Consider please the three previous posts in this thread.
There are eleven downloads, with combined view and download figures respectively, as I write this post, of 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, and 2, 2, 2, 2 and 3, 3.
Now, once one knows that I downloaded the font to local storage to check that it was correct and that I downloaded each pdf to local storage to check that it was correct and also I opened each pdf to check that it displayed correctly on-line, and that I displayed apricot.pdf an extra time as I was checking something, one is left with the result that. apart from my checking, the download figures are as follows: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0, 0, 0, 0 and 1, 1.
Well, maybe people are not interested, yet I am somewhat puzzled by this as the SONNC003.TTF font has a download figure of 23, which is my downloading to local storage to check that it was correct and 22 others. Maybe some readers just looked at the font in fontviewer, yet maybe some readers downloaded the font and tried using it. Also, the view figures for the thread have increased steadily, being 282 as I write this post, though some of them are mine as I have been monitoring the download count from time to time.
I know that the font is only a hobbyist font yet I had thought that the techniques that I am exploring of making sweeping calligraphic ligatures and alternates using FontCreator would be of interest to at least some readers, particularly as I am trying to find out how to include alternate glyphs in an OpenType font. (I have thus far managed ligatures, yet not alternates).
However, I am genuinely puzzled as to why no readers have had a look at the seven pdfs that have the names of fruits.
William Overington
20 March 2010