Yet *another* new font, fancy style

[Fatestorm]

This is really exceptional work. Thank you for doing this. In between working on my chancery italics and playing ARR beta, I will be using these guidelines to create some missives.

[Myranda]

Some new updates added, both here and in the other font but I'm only going to bump the one thread. See changelog in the OP for details. (I also messed around in dropbox so that it shouldn't take you to a page with a blue button first, and right-click saving should now work)

Also, there's been speculation about what my normal handwriting looks like so I thought I'd treat y'all (prepare to be disappointed lol...)



On the left we have my planned dinner menu for the week, originally snapped to send to my wife~
And in the red corner, we have my planning/practice paper for making the fonts~

Such exciting examples, I know, but they were the only things around I could actually find with my writing on it without having to think of some trite example text to write something new. It's neat, clean, and tidy I suppose but not nearly as "pretty" as I think the expectation may have been... :P

[Klefth]

I now feel ashamed of my hand-writing.

[Alhanelem]

What software(s) are you using to make your fonts?

[Myranda]

What software(s) are you using to make your fonts?

Original drawing of the glyphs in Illustrator with the brush tool set to a flat calligraphy tip. This does two thing, 1.) it smooths over any unsteadiness I have in my hand to make a more fluid stroke and b.) it creates a vector result so the resulting character is scalable to large sizes without loss of quality, particularly without having to use the pen tool. While in the end I could get a better quality out of the fine controls of the pen tool, it would take so much longer I doubt I'd have finished even 20% of a full font, let alone two of them with revisions.

Anyways, once the glyphs are drawn, I just copy paste those bad boys directly from Illustrator into High-Logic FontCreator and that's where I deal with all the font aspects like setting the metrics and kerning and whatnot. It's kind of a buggy program and freezes a lot (though predictably, so if you remember what functions freeze it, you can try to avoid using them). Also when you close the program the window disappears but the process isn't killed and mysteriously feels the need to tank out to max one of my CPU cores so I have to kill it in task manager... but it's the easiest to use font software I've tried so that's what I've stuck with for the time being.

[Alhanelem]

I figured you would use illustrator or something similar for the actual drawing, I just don't know of any programs to generate actual font files, so thanks for indulging