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Re: Please help identify possible age of this carved Number?
For whatever it’s worth, the appropriate terms are “lettering” and “stone carving,” or “stone-carved lettering.”1 -
Re: Tiny bump artifacts where contours overlap
Thanks for the file. I had a look and it seem that the algorithm in Glyphs is actually working as it should (Illustrators Pathfinder produces a very similar result). Only that Glyphs is rounding to t…4 -
Re: Tiny bump artifacts where contours overlap
Ah yeah, actually does look like this is specific to Glyphs. Thanks @"Georg Seifert" sure yeah happy to send some over. Want the whole .ufo or just a .glif? Same UFO in RoboFont: And @"…1 -
Re: Tiny bump artifacts where contours overlap
That seems to be artifacts introduced by the remove overlap code. It seems to insert several nodes along the overlap and those nodes then get rounded to the grid. Could you send me some of the outlin…2 -
Re: Hebrew need for another mark in unicode - Sheva Na, Dagesh Hazeq
My personal "most wanted" code point for Hebrew would be ḥolam malei for alef. Without it, Hebrew fonts have to do inference trickery to synthesize it from context. This is rather similar t…1 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
At the time, Macs were still dominating the scene as far as graphic design went, but of course you’re right, I did not think of this. Ottomat was entirely designed in Fontstudio, importing scans of …1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
unrelated to the latest experiment, I had a thought around beziers. could you do some kind of reinforcement learning on the autotraced outputs? I only have a cursory understanding of how this works, …5 -
Re: Icons to font file conversion
The pysvg2font is a program that runs on your own computer, so your SVG files and the resulting font file never leave your computer. With Icomoon, you upload the SVG files to their server. It's an ap…1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
That was a fascinating experiment. I appreciate all the effort you put into research. But I'm losing faith in narrow AI generating a useful, complete font. Wide AI is a different story. Once there ca…3 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
One big limitation of FontStudio is that it was Mac-only and could only export Macintosh PS or TT fonts. Microsoft MS-DOS/Windows nor any other platform is mentioned in the manual. In fact, the curre…2
