On 28/04/2016 16:07, Paul Koning wrote:
On Apr 28, 2016, at 10:37 AM, schoe...@kw.igs.net wrote:
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:19:43 +0100, Rod Smallwood wrote
But they built it out of circles and straight lines and that's what I do.
That's superficially, but not exactly, true. Even the 'o' is not a perfect
circle, and you can't get close to replicating the 's' or the digits that way.
I took a stab at replicating the 'classic dec' font about a decade ago,
following
scanned DEC manuals wherever possible. I built up most of the basic ASCII set in
the outline form before suspending the project. (I suspect the solid form can
mostly be derived from paths through the middle of the outline strokes.) It did
get used a few years ago by our Jason T for some VCF Midwest graphics -
https://picasaweb.google.com/102190732096693814506/VCFMW50OfficialGraphics#551251
2730455260610
Neat. I did the same many years ago, using CorelDraw as a very poor man's font maker,
but it was just good enough to create the basic outlines. I call the font
"Handbook" and I've sent out TTF files of it at times. I can do so again if
anyone wants it. It has no kerning in it (no support for that in CorelDraw). I could
probably add those with a better font editor.
The samples you pointed to don't take into account that there are two versions
of f and t and r -- one for end of word that has the long curl in your design,
and one for mid-word that has a shorter curl.
paul
OK I have grabbed the VCF stuff. Anything that takes the Panel
Project forward really helps.
I have shipped a number of panels already and now I'm on version 3 of
the PDP-8 panels.
Rod (Panelman) Smallwood
