[fontforge-users] Setting up a fontforge font design project & blog

[Kelvin Song]

Hi, I've been working on a new typeface for a short while, and I'm planning
on doing it entirely in fontforge, and I think it would be a good idea to
document it's creation in a sort of blog on type design. It would be a long
running tutorial on type design, like the Design with FontForge book,
except with a concrete example. I think it would also be good to do this in
close collaboration with the developers, as I suspect this will turn up its
share of bugs and annoyances in fontforge. && the font will be made a libre
font. Is this a good idea? And if so, would it be better to write it as a
part of the official website or book, an affiliated blog (like the ubuntu
font did), or a completely independent blog?

To show I'm serious here's an svg sketch of the first five letters of the
font (a o i b n)—it's supposed to be an old-style text typeface (which
we're sorely lacking in open fonts—too many 'computer serifs'!):


​And I have tons of presketches and stuff that could be turned into the
first three or four articles (mostly on letter construction and optical
illusions, but the fontforge phase will come right after).
—Kelvin

[Dave Crossland]

Hi

I'd LOVE for you to do this as part of the DWFF site, like
designwithfontforge.com/familyname - I guess the code in
https://github.com/fontforge/designwithfontforge.com/blob/gh-pages/en-US/index.md
may need to be reworked to ignore subdirectories... not sure. But you
already have push access to the repo - make the site great!! :)


As you are doing an old style, I strongly encourage you to read the theory
in http://lettermodel.org/ and use Kernagic in your working process.

Post by Kelvin Song
Hi, I've been working on a new typeface for a short while, and I'm
planning on doing it entirely in fontforge, and I think it would be a good
idea to document it's creation in a sort of blog on type design. It would
be a long running tutorial on type design, like the Design with FontForge
book, except with a concrete example. I think it would also be good to do
this in close collaboration with the developers, as I suspect this will
turn up its share of bugs and annoyances in fontforge. && the font will be
made a libre font. Is this a good idea? And if so, would it be better to
write it as a part of the official website or book, an affiliated blog
(like the ubuntu font did), or a completely independent blog?
To show I'm serious here's an svg sketch of the first five letters of the
font (a o i b n)—it's supposed to be an old-style text typeface (which
​And I have tons of presketches and stuff that could be turned into the
first three or four articles (mostly on letter construction and optical
illusions, but the fontforge phase will come right after).
—Kelvin
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[Dave Crossland]

Hi!

Wow, your blog at letterpunch.blogspot.com is really wonderful! :)

Would you be willing to license your blog as CC-BY-SA so that the content
can be integrated into the DWFF manual? :)

Post by Dave Crossland
Hi
I'd LOVE for you to do this as part of the DWFF site, like
designwithfontforge.com/familyname - I guess the code in
https://github.com/fontforge/designwithfontforge.com/blob/gh-pages/en-US/index.md
may need to be reworked to ignore subdirectories... not sure. But you
already have push access to the repo - make the site great!! :)
As you are doing an old style, I strongly encourage you to read the theory
in http://lettermodel.org/ and use Kernagic in your working process.

Post by Kelvin Song
Hi, I've been working on a new typeface for a short while, and I'm
planning on doing it entirely in fontforge, and I think it would be a good
idea to document it's creation in a sort of blog on type design. It would
be a long running tutorial on type design, like the Design with FontForge
book, except with a concrete example. I think it would also be good to do
this in close collaboration with the developers, as I suspect this will
turn up its share of bugs and annoyances in fontforge. && the font will be
made a libre font. Is this a good idea? And if so, would it be better to
write it as a part of the official website or book, an affiliated blog
(like the ubuntu font did), or a completely independent blog?
To show I'm serious here's an svg sketch of the first five letters of the
font (a o i b n)—it's supposed to be an old-style text typeface (which
​And I have tons of presketches and stuff that could be turned into the
first three or four articles (mostly on letter construction and optical
illusions, but the fontforge phase will come right after).
—Kelvin
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Cheers
Dave