[Fedora-fonts-list] Font design

[Anne Wilson]

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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