The quick, brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

[Biomechanoid]

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So I finally sat down and learned the code to write my own fonts for CAD software. This is my first "complete" attempt - 26 capital letters and a blank character for space. Now I have to seek the know-how to go about translating the *.shx file I made into a *.ttf for other applications. I had another font hand-drawn years ago and set out to learn how to make it computer friendly, but it was far too complex for a beginner's project and I abandoned the idea. Lately I got a hankering to try it again, but set the pace a little differently this time to actually learn the code. I never really had much use for hexidecimal math, but it's not as bad as I thought. For example, the code for the character 'B' is:

*66,23,ucb
2,010,1,040,10,(2,064),018,10,(1,064),038,2,03C,1, 10,(1,020),2,8,(6,-3),0

That's the longest string in the font. I'm thinking I may have to use Unicode for the other font from before, as the shapes will require much longer strings. When I got it done and took a look at all of them together it made me think of a Techno Spawn motif, or something, so that's why it's here. That and some of you smart people might be able to help my learning curve, which is always good.

[-megalithanod]

That is sweet -

If you do convert them over to a ttf - I will beg and plead to get a copy of it!

[Darkest Angel]

....*blink*


*wanders off to find thread written in English*

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[Peter Peeker]

neato!

wish I had some idea how to make fonts...

[Biomechanoid]

I'm sure there's a program out there that just let's you draw or scan an image and call it 'letter Q' or whatever, using ASCII or some other standard, and then compiles your characters into any font format you want, but I'm not willing to pay for it. I did happen across a service that will convert my .shx to .ttf, but there again, it's a fee. But if they have a way, then there must be a possibility that I can do it myself.

-mega, that's the only hangup. If I can get it to .ttf I'll finish it with all 128 characters, maybe even add in the codes for bolding and italicizing that I didn't play with this go around. I'm not worrying about rights on these, they may already have enough similarities to the millions of other fonts that get shared all over the place. However, if I ever get the other font done I may try to market it.

[Drau]

After doing a little searching...

this place will convert it for you [img]frown.gif[/img]
http://www.tcfonts.com/

This will allow you to convert a DWG/DXF to diff file types
http://easydwg.com/

[Biomechanoid]

Thanks, Drau. That first one is the one I found, too. I might just drop them a line to see what they charge. This turned out to be pretty simple, and I have plenty of font ideas. I'm thinking if they do a bulk order for cheap it may be worth it to get some published.