[86289] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Alternatives to Code2000 PUA Klingon Font
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark J. Reed)
Sun Jul 19 09:32:47 2009
In-Reply-To: <2EC657C9-7A60-4819-86A6-D64E9311410B@evertype.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:29:58 -0400
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
What did you base the shapes of the glyphs on? I notice that they
differ significantly from the KLI font in some areas; for instance,
{gh} and {o} are a lot more similar to each other. I know that such
font variation is normal in typography, but it confused me.
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Michael Everson<everson@evertype.com> wrote:
> On 3 Jul 2009, at 02:29, Mark J. Reed wrote:
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>> So are these fonts completely blank outside of the PUA pIqaD area?
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> Not any more. But that might have been part of the problem.
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> In addition to adding Latin characters (Mac and Windows character
> sets) I have made a few other changes, including resizing the glyphs
> slightly so that horizontal lines of text don't crash into each other.
> I have tested these on Windows XP (double clicking on the font file
> whilst on the desktop opens them as expected), and installed them via
> FontBook on Mac OS 10.4.11 and 10.5.7.
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> I'd be grateful if people could test the new versions at http://www.evertype.com/fonts/tlh
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> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
