Font Design Loose Ends
FontForge looks like it might be a decent open-source font editor. Has anyone tried it? A free software package that performed comparably to FontLab would be awesome.
Hrant Papazian is teaching an Introduction to Typeface Design class at Art Center in Pasadena. It looks like a great crash course in type design for only $200 (at a very respected school, no less). I was thinking about it myself, since it’s about 2 blocks from my job, but this working stiff can’t make 4-7pm classes.
That’s it for today, I’m off to opening day at Dodger Stadium!
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codeman38 / April 12, 2005 @ 12:52 pm
FontForge is a bit finicky to install on Windows, but it does work. It’s much more seamless on Mac and Linux, though, as it’s written mainly for Unix-compatible operating systems.
I’ve used it together with another open-source program, TTF2PT1, to generate a number of the fonts on my site. Create the bitmap fonts in Fontforge, convert them to scalable format using TTF2PT1, and then tweak things afterward in Fontforge again.
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