On Friday 19 Oct 2007, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > The reason I got the invitation to the list is because I had commented on > > the lack of decent free handwriting/script fonts. I have a particular > > favourite closed-source one, and would like to see something similar in a > > free font. The problem is that I haven't a clue how to start. Does > > anyone know of a reference page that would get a complete newbie to font > > design started? > > > > Anne > > I would suggest the OpenFontLibrary (OFLB) wiki: > http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Knowledge_Resources > http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Books > > as well as the fontforge tutorial as a good starting poing: > http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/editexample.html > Thanks. I'll look at them. > And for handwriting/script open fonts, did you come across these two: > http://stalefries.googlepages.com/fontsbreip > http://perso.orange.fr/jm.douteau/page_ecolier.htm > I'd hate anyone to think that I wrote like 'stalefries' :-) The second one is quite nice, though. The script-style that I personally like is shown in the attached file. I'd like to see whether I can create something very similar. Anne > > HTH
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