On 05/06/2011 08:39 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > Is there anyone involved in developing/maintaining/creating fonts on > this list? What do you use as a source format? I'm both upstream and debian maintainer for dkg-handwriting :P I use sfd as my "source format", though the original "source format" isn't digital at all -- it's a couple sheets of paper with my handwriting on them, which went through a tedious and painstaking non-automatable process to get them into the .sfd. I made a writeup of the process ages ago, which survives in some patchy form at the original URL: http://noesis.fifthhorseman.net/node/54 Going forward, I'm intrigued by the fact that Inkscape seems to keep poking around the edges of what they call "svg fonts", but i confess i don't really know what that means (and i haven't looked into it in detail). Inkscape is an amazing UI, though, and i really enjoy working with the tool in other contexts; i'd be happy to use it as my "preferred form of modification" if it were possible, since i find the UI generally more accessible than that of fontforge. If there were a way to programmatically assemble a set of svg files into an sfd that could then be manipulated into the various output formats by fontforge, that would be excellent in my book. --dkg
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