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IT'S ALL BLACK!!!!!!!

Wed Aug 26, 2009, 12:50 PM
So what's new…

Yes for the past 2 and half days I've been working like a madman on my Blacletter font, BlackSwirl. In that time I've produced and extra 3 versions of the lowercase. I only planned to remake the original lowercase at first and then just clean up the and dodgy kerning and spacing. But NO I had to bloody silly and produce more!!! WHY!!!!

So now I have an extra 78 brand new glyphs making a grand total of 284. I'd like to round that upto 300 if possible…

But I had a nightmare of a day when Fontlab gave me constant ERROR message saying the Ascenders/Desceners Bbox didn't total up. So I've been stumped and frustrated all reading all the jargon on how the bbox should add up. But I was still baffled by the Techno speak of the manual.

Finally about 2 hours ago I read from a type design forum member all I needed to do was make sure they totaled a certain amount. And so I made that happen and voila…no more error message and all the alternates and new characters work in Opentype. Splendid!!!

Now I have to make several ligatures, something else I hadn't planned on doing but during tests I found several glyphs clashed.

So back to the sketchbook and Fontlab.

I'll be posting a few test images shortly, so I'd love to hear what you think of the new changes.

Take Care

Andy




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  • Current Residence: UK
  • Interests: Typeface Design, Fonts, Calligraphy, Lettering Typography
  • Favourite artist: Too many but mainly typeface designers these days
  • Favourite style of art: Typography
  • Operating System: MacBook Pro, iMac, G4 Desktop Tower and OS X 10.4.9
  • Tools of the Trade: Dip Pen, Ink, anything you can write with, Scanner, Wacom Tablet, Illustrator, Fontlab, Patience!!!!

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:iconmickwag:
Thanks for the watch.
:icon1handed:
wow thank for the fave!
:iconsubaru7:
Thank you very much for the :+fav: :hug:
It means a lot for me! ^^
Have a nice day!!! :)
:iconkaton241162:
Thank you very much for the recent :+fav: and the :+devwatch: Andy, they are very appreciated:-)

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:iconweegraphicsman:
Anytime, it's a beautiful photo.

Take Care

Andy
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Thanks so much for the fav, appreciate it :)
:iconcallligrapher:
Thank you so much for the Watching, that
is really so kind of you.
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thank you for the watch, and commenting of course ;D

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