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That's wonderful! Does anyone know the best way to convert an old printed manuscript into a font file?
by edent 3y ago
That's wonderful!
Does anyone know the best way to convert an old printed manuscript into a font file?
- dsr_ 3y agoGet the highest resolution scan that you can manage. Break it into glyphs. Select your representative glyphs. Become frustrated that in eighteen pages, there are no examples of [#%|\=÷×{}!*/] or a capital X or Z or five digits. Find substitutes. Use FontForge. Read the whole FAQ.
- waldothedog 3y agoI’ve used Glyphs before for drawing type and can’t recommend it enough. Reasonably priced, quite powerful, fast and fluid to use. Drawing—even re-drawing—type is almost addicting. When you get the Bézier curves dialed in just right it’s so satisfying!
- moritz 3y agoglyphtracer [1] can help with this, but letter shapes are only a small part of what makes a typeface. (Typography is about whitespace, or as Miles Davis said, “it‘s not about the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play that matter”.) [1]: https://github.com/jpakkane/glyphtracer https://github.com/jpakkane/glyphtracer