Gothic Splendour font

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William
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Gothic Splendour font

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I have just uploaded another of my fonts to the web. It is another shareware font. I produced the published font this afternoon using Font Creator Program 4.5 starting from a Softy-produced font which I designed and constructed earlier this year.

The files are as follows.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/GOTHICSR.TTF

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/gothicsr.txt

Both of the above files are linked from the following web page.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/library.htm

There is also a pdf in the using graphics and fonts section of the library page which shows the font in use. I produced it as part of my testing of the font.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/g ... endour.PDF

I have also been very pleased with the results of using this font in three-dimensional display, using the Serif ImpactPlus program.

William Overington

30 September 2004
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Post by William »

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 glyphs from the old version, copied one by one using the clipboard, as the artwork for the new font. I adjusted the metrics.

This morning I produced Gothic Splendour version 0.10 in GOTHICSR.TTF from GOTHI010.TTF. This involves, after using "save as" to produce the GOTHICSR.TTF file, deleting all of the unused glyphs in GOTHICSR.TTF, then using Format | Settings | Ranges and calculating both ranges, then validating the font. The font is then tested using Microsoft Word 97.

GOTHI010.TTF still has ready-mapped spaces for adding other characters. So any future development would start by copying GOTHI010.TTF to a new file GOTHI011.TTF and using the font name Gothic Splendour 011 during development. This means that I do not alter existing finished work, just in case later additions need to be rethought or abandoned.

The font is available from the following web page.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/fonts.htm

William
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