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cant you straighten them out yourself? noob

MKJ wrote:cant you straighten them out yourself? noob

Of course I can, i'm the master. But i'd rather not do it, since converting the actual JPG's to TTF's is more thank enough work thank you very much!

hold on. an a4 sheet at 300ppi is going to be a big old fime to host/email

Nah, it wont. Not if the paper is white, and the pen is black. Keep it greyscale, and the file should be about 1-2mb. Survivor sent a 2400dpi document and that was only 5.4mb.

Mine wasn't an entire A4 though. I cut it down to reasonable size before sending.

It doesn't matter really. If the paper is white, then there isn't much actual data to be scanned. I scan text a lot at uni, and they all fit nicely on my crappy 128mb pen drive

Sent you one.

do you want smart quotes too?

Sorry but this is all you're getting until I see a cheque in the mail.

Grandpa: just what I listed above is fine, thx.

i kid i kid, but alas no scanner access atm

i got samples with three different pens. i'll scan the sheet when i get home later.

Excellent. Keep em coming guys, much appreciated!

Thanks to all who helped. I've started work on my typeface first, and this shit takes absolutely ages. Admitably, this took a few days to draw, but since my eyes aren't what they used to be, they needed a bit of work in photoshop to align everything properly on the bassline etc....

Heres the first font, before its actually vectorised and compiled:

http://www.thepuzl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk ... font01.gif

and inverted: http://www.thepuzl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk ... invert.gif

Opinions very much welcome at this stage, as I might change a few things before I start the vector process proper.

Oh, and ignore kerning/leading at this stage - its just all thrown together in photoshop, so not spacing rules actually exist yet.

brisk wrote:Thanks to all who helped. I've started work on my typeface first, and this shit takes absolutely ages. Admitably, this took a few days to draw, but since my eyes aren't what they used to be, they needed a bit of work in photoshop to align everything properly on the bassline etc....

Heres the first font, before its actually vectorised and compiled:

http://www.thepuzl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk ... font01.gif

and inverted: http://www.thepuzl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk ... invert.gif

Opinions very much welcome at this stage, as I might change a few things before I start the vector process proper.

gota say that looks pretty fuckin cool mate :icon14:

Thanks. I think it'll look neat when its all done and properly compiled. I am exhausted.

Looking good so far

Rough Cut.ttf is now complete! It's incredible how long something like this takes to do (though the next ones will be shorter as I had to learn this from scratch) but i'm pleased with the results.





Let me know what you all think!

Haha, nice.

I've got a whole font designed in Illustrator somehwre. How'd you convert it?

Looks nice. Any chance of you posting a short tutorial on it?

bag0shite wrote:Haha, nice.

I've got a whole font designed in Illustrator somehwre. How'd you convert it?

Heres what I did:

1. Draw the type onto my pad and scan it in.
2. Live trace within Illustrator CS2
3. Fix the live trace mistakes in Illustrator
4. Copy and paste each character into FontLab.
5. Final tweaks and fixes within Fontlab.
6. Export.

I think in future, I will just skip the post-live trace in Illustrator and just do everything in FontLab. It is a superb program, and much better than Illustrator for type vectors.

Oh, and the above examples are set at -75 standard kerning within Photoshop. The actual 0 spacing is less tight, obviously.

I'll PM you the 300DPI version.