[smc-discuss] Fwd: New Font

[Rajeesh K Nambiar]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Vishnu,
>
> Congrats for the first step of font creations!

I'd like to echo the same. Good job!

>
> I am also not a font developer. But I guess the next step would be to
> create vector graphics from these raster images.  I think, Potrace
> would be the best free software for that:
> http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ I think all remaining steps will
> require FontForge: http://fontforge.org/
>

These are the first steps, and it is important to have good quality
vector graphics of glyphs.

> I believe converting the TTF files into XML using FontTools will help
> you to understand various OTF tables:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/FontTools

The rest is assigning code points, glyph naming and most importantly
writing opentype lookup tables. I can help you with these.
Maybe time for another font session? :-)

>
>
> 2014-03-19 19:26 GMT+05:30 Hrishi <hrishi.kb at gmail.com>:
>> വിഷ്ണു,
>>
>> ഫോണ്ടു നിര്‍മ്മാണത്തില്‍  വളരെ ചെറിയ ഭാഗമാണു് ഗ്ലിഫ് വരക്കല്‍ എന്നാണെന്റെ
>> അറിവ്.
>> ശെരിക്കുള്ള പണി പിന്നെയാണു്.  മെയില്‍ ലിസ്റ്റിലേക്ക് ഫോര്‍വേഡുന്നു.
>> അറിവുള്ളവര്‍  കൂടുതല്‍ വിവരങ്ങള്‍ പങ്കുവെക്കുമെന്ന് കരുതുന്നു.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Vishnu CN <vishnucn at yahoo.in>
>> Date: Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:13 AM
>> Subject: New Font
>> To: "Hrishikesh K.B" <hrishi.kb at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> We would wish to create a font. As a first step we have produced a rough
>> skeletal description of the font in jpeg which is attached . Can you breif
>> us on the  steps as to how to actually generate the font.
>>
>> Vishnu CN
>> B.Tech (Batch: 2010-2014)
>>
>> Computer Science and Engineering
>>
>> Govt. Model Engineering College



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Cheers,
Rajeesh
http://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com