Re: Need Help with Handwriting Font
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:29 pm
Yes, I did try your tutorial before, Bhikkhu! I managed to get one letter created and it seemed to work fine, and then for some reason I couldn't create a second one and got frustrated and gave up.
Don't blame your tutorial, though, I'll take the blame for that -- this type design stuff does seem to end up confusing me a lot. I understand if I'm a frustrating pupil at times -- if it's any consolation, I frustrate the hell outta myself, too.
It is something I would like to try down the road again, though -- but at the moment what my focus is on is getting this Thoreau font wrapped up, and then get my 1990s-designed website totally revamped and updated (with my fonts embedded everywhere, as an integral part of the design, etc.).
If I can get that done, though, then it would indeed be nice to create a coloured font of my Alde decorative initials, specifically for use in one of my ebooks -- although it's not imperative that I get that done, it just would be nice to do.
A question about coloured fonts has just occurred to me, though -- just as I was writing this.
With a regular, "black & white" font, in your software you can specify the colour that it renders in -- so my "black & white" font can be rendered in red, blue, purple, any colour you like, of course.
But what happens when you tell a coloured font to be a certain colour? Does that only affect the black parts of the font, but do the coloured parts stay the same colour?
To explain why I'm asking that, I have my Alde initials, and all I hoped to do was have the letter in the middle be reddish (actually sort-of orangish), surrounded by the black decorative border surrounding that letter. So that shouldn't be too complicated a colour font to do.
But what if at the other end, when I want to use my font, my basefont colour (for my text throughout the document) isn't quite "black," but rather a very dark brown? And so I tell all my text -- including the decorative initials -- to be that very dark brown colour, because I want the black borders surrounding my initials to be that dark brown colour, but I would still want the colour part to come out with the EXACT same colour that I gave it in the font in the first place.
Is that what would actually happen? Or does applying colour to a colour font screw up all the colouring in the font itself?
Hope that makes sense.
Don't blame your tutorial, though, I'll take the blame for that -- this type design stuff does seem to end up confusing me a lot. I understand if I'm a frustrating pupil at times -- if it's any consolation, I frustrate the hell outta myself, too.
It is something I would like to try down the road again, though -- but at the moment what my focus is on is getting this Thoreau font wrapped up, and then get my 1990s-designed website totally revamped and updated (with my fonts embedded everywhere, as an integral part of the design, etc.).
If I can get that done, though, then it would indeed be nice to create a coloured font of my Alde decorative initials, specifically for use in one of my ebooks -- although it's not imperative that I get that done, it just would be nice to do.
A question about coloured fonts has just occurred to me, though -- just as I was writing this.
With a regular, "black & white" font, in your software you can specify the colour that it renders in -- so my "black & white" font can be rendered in red, blue, purple, any colour you like, of course.
But what happens when you tell a coloured font to be a certain colour? Does that only affect the black parts of the font, but do the coloured parts stay the same colour?
To explain why I'm asking that, I have my Alde initials, and all I hoped to do was have the letter in the middle be reddish (actually sort-of orangish), surrounded by the black decorative border surrounding that letter. So that shouldn't be too complicated a colour font to do.
But what if at the other end, when I want to use my font, my basefont colour (for my text throughout the document) isn't quite "black," but rather a very dark brown? And so I tell all my text -- including the decorative initials -- to be that very dark brown colour, because I want the black borders surrounding my initials to be that dark brown colour, but I would still want the colour part to come out with the EXACT same colour that I gave it in the font in the first place.
Is that what would actually happen? Or does applying colour to a colour font screw up all the colouring in the font itself?
Hope that makes sense.