Hi all,
Newbie here!
I'm designing my first display font and I'm running into a problem. I started designing it on paper, then illustrator. It's when I tried to convert it into a real font that the problem was made clear: I have used a gradient (black, 100% to zero transparency), and font formats do not allow that, it seems. Well, it's possible with color fonts but I want it to be a regular font where the user can pic the color.
So the difficulty now is to convert this gradient into black elements. I have tried various solutions: half tones, triangles, and simply drawing the light reflexions, as the gradient is there to simulate a curved surface. I'm worried the success of this will depend on the size of the font. It makes the font less usable.
Do you have any recommandations on how to deal with that?
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https://help.fontlab.com/fontlab-vi/Making-a-Font-From-Color-Bitmap-Images/
https://www.fontlab.com/font-editor/bitfonter/
And look like this:
But there are currently very few apps that support effects like this.
I don't have the skills yet to dive into coding, beside, that font is intended mainly for printing. I would also like to stick to a vector font, it makes more sense to me, I think it's has a wider range of uses.
By experience I know that gradients are mostly a pain to print, so that makes sense that font formats don't support that. But for the web it could be really useful.
Here's what it looks like, with gradients and without :
Not using the gradients destroys the original look, i'd say. It's not as clean and metallic. Yet that's the best I can come up with so far.
Any idea/comment/critic welcome
The sources are available from the linked repo, so maybe there could be some inspiration there for you when it comes to the technical challenges.