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I have looked thru the links you all provided. It has become clear to me that one afternoon of skilled font making labor would not be a realistic idea on my part.
I have searched YouTube.com for a video entitled anything like "How to use FontCreator", but with no luck.
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[Bhikkhu Pesala]
"Upload a sccan somewhere to give people some idea of what is required."
[GeneM]
http://www.castlelong.com/book/pscbyec9 ... C960.shtml
In the above link on page 9, there is a chess diagram showing the font icons I have in mind, for diagrams. They are pseudo 3D.
I realize that on page 9 they have more detail than would be in any plausible font (the tiny edge dots on the black icons are hopeless).
And I am unsure how to translate the gray-scale depths into pure binary black and white.
For in-text icons, I envision simplified 2D cousins for each.
So the font would cover both chess figurine notation text and chess board diagrams.
I would provide a .BMP file (made using MsPaint.exe) containing all the precisely "drawn" characters.
Overall I would prefer more rounding of some harsh edges than I was able to achieve. But such rounding sounds like it would add to more man-hours, and thus to more $; which I want to avoid.
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[Bhikkhu Pesala]
"There are several online font services that will turn your handwriting into a Truetype vector font for you."
[GeneM]
Yes, but they do not explicitly say the font would scale up-down in size.
And they seem restricted to 0x00-0x7f.
I am unsure, but I do not think I want to involve Unicode. Ease of keyboard entry is very important. Perhaps those two concepts conflict.
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[GeneM]
The character to keyboard mapping would be roughly similar to that of font "Chess Alpha 2" , at web site...
enpassant.dk
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[William Overington]
Are you looking for chess characters as such or for a font of chess characters made from your own artwork or designs?
Are you looking for other characters made to your own designs?
Are the chess characters in the Quest text font of use to you?
[GeneM]
I looked at William's Chess-3D.ttf, and his Quest font. Interesting to see this stuff. But I have my own very specific chess glyphs in mind.
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[Bhikkhu Pesala]
One could design a pair of fonts: Regular with black and white pieces on white squares, and Bold with black and white pieces on black squares.
[GeneM]
For the in-text 2D glyphs, my design has 4 concepts, in a 2X2 matrix:
White piece , notBold
Black piece , notBold
White piece , Bold
Black piece , Bold
But I had not envisioned the use of BOLD to achieve that. I think it would be better for me to just have different characters (keyboard keys) make those distinctions (with Shift being involved).
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[Bhikkhu Pesala]
" - kering pairs, Panose classification, Open Type features, hinting, etc."
[GeneM]
I do not know what any of those terms mean (well, I kinda know kerning). Probably people who do know could have a fair chance of learning how to use FontCreator.
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CHSym: I name the font I have in mind "Chess Handy Symmato", or CHSym for short.
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