Proportional fonts

Started by a1ex, September 07, 2013, 11:51:30 AM

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stevefal

A kerning table would enable improvements, but i don't personally think it's worth it. I've tuned each font's fixed kerning at least as much as character spacing  accounts for area to the right of each figure, within the cell. For example, a 'B' has more space to the right than 'W' or 'C'. Tuning discreet pairs or groups would be a lot of work.

QuoteDo these fonts have hintings, i.e. should we write things like "The A has too much space next to the v"?

That's an example of a case that requires for more advanced kerning. The v could have less space on both sides, but not always, or vv would look like w. There are lots of examples like this.
Steve Falcon

stevefal

QuoteOK, here are the 4 versions:

Can you make downsampled 28 and 36 too?
Steve Falcon

stevefal

New:

Argand Normal 16 v.50: http://popspring.com/mldrop/argnor16.rbf

This should be suitable for doubling for Argand Half 32 v.50 (agrhlf32.rbf).
Steve Falcon

stevefal

New:

Terminus Normal 10 v.50: http://popspring.com/mldrop/ternor10.rbf

This should be suitable for doubling for Terminus Half 20 v.50 (terhlf20.rbf).

It is not totally faithful to the Terminus style - not enough pixels. Also some characters are wider than others, but the cells are still monospaced. You'll have to see if it's ok.
Steve Falcon

g3gg0

i am just changing top/bottom bars and miss the infinity symbol.
can you add the it too?

http://www.decodeunicode.org/de/u+221e

thanks
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stevefal

@a1ex, can you please generate the downsampled 28 and 36 fonts, so I can complete all the work for low-res displays?

Also, could you allocate up to row a0 in all Argand font files so I have room to create more icons? I use empty cells for proposals and for iterating characters/icons in progress. We can trim things down as necessary when things wind down (hah, do things ever wind down?)
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