Open Font LibraryHow I Did It
Goudy Bookletter 1911 |
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| by: | chemoelectric |
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| date: | January 21, 2008 10:18 pm |
| tags: | media, font, how_i_did_it, serif, text, oldstyle, venetian, jenson_e, jenson, goudy |
| license: |  |
Tools I Used
FontForge with the Spiro plug-in (http://libspiro.sourceforge.net)
Other Notes
Spiro outlines required much less physical work for me than bezier outlines, which for me is absolutely important, because I have a physical disability of the hands. On the other hand it is almost impossible to put together Spiro outlines out of modular pieces, so I did some things in bezier mode and some other things I did with incredibly ugly hacks. (See some of the ligatures in the .sfd file included in the source zip.)
It will be a comparative challenge, I think, to use Spiro to make a font where the serifs and other features are more similar from glyph to glyph. Bookletter 1911 is of the variation-from-glyph-to-glyph variety.
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