[Pkg-fonts-devel] Playing with fontforge
Hi, Kęstutis and other people.
I am revisiting an old e-mail...
On Feb 21 2010, Bilūnas wrote:
> Yes, of course. Especially welcome people who also designs fonts with
> FontForge, because I myself have too little understanding of font
> creation.
I am a novice at this design of fonts thing, but I have been playing
with fontforge, with the assistance of Khaled Hosny.
This is an implementation of some OpenType features in an experimental
Garamond-like typeface, the URW Garamond No. 8. Since you have an
ogonek in your first name, and you are intersted in fonts, I would
appreciate your opinion on some of the diacritics of the font.
You can see what we have here:
http://github.com/rbrito/urw-garamond
I am following Khaled's advice of not tweaking the diacritics that are
not in my mother language, as we would like to have a quality product.
BTW, if any other people here have any comments on the font above,
please let me know. It seems that this will be a very long (but fun)
jorney.
> I am also a lack of knowledge, but it seems that this patch would be
> satisfactory. I already forwarded it to the upstream. Thank you
> Rogério.
Happily, I saw that it was integrated upstream, which is very cool. And
now that the fixed version of fontforge has migrated to testing, it
seems that it's a good time to prepare a new update.
I think that I have some modifications in mind.
Regards, Rogério Brito.
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