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MightyKitten
All you need is:
1) Windows 2000 SP2 or higher
2) Windows XP
3) A font face you won't regret to mess up (it can only alter fontfaces)
The downer:
It is only usable on a single PC. It is a remapping of a character set, not
a real truetypefont. But it works for the fonts on your own PC in all your
TrueType enabled applications
Shamelessly copyed and paste it from http://www.pcplus.co.uk
Microsoft's free font editor
Did you know it was there?
Ever looked in vain through various fonts for just the right character? Or
wished that one of the characters was a little bit different? Various
third-party font editors exist, but did you know that Windows XP and 2000
with Service Pack 2 have a native font editor? I didn't either until a
friend heard about it on the grapevine.
Look for a program called Eudcedit.exe and if you've got it, run it. The
editing window works like an icon editor, with a pixel grid and basic tools
with which to edit designs. Left click to set a pixel, right-click to un-set
it.
But who wants blocky pixellated characters? Worry not - although the editor
works on pixels, behind the scenes it estimates a vector representation of
your work and that's what gets written to the font file. The vector outline
can be seen by going to the View menu and turning on 'Show Outline'. Guessed
outlines of complex curves do not have the quality of a vector created using
a gown-up font editor. For straight lines the quality should be fine.
Easier than creating a well-formed character from scratch is to modify a
copy of an existing character. Go to Window, Reference. Pick a font and then
a character. It will appear to the right of the editing pane. There you can
select, copy and paste all or part of the shape.
When saving the new character, it doesn't replace the original. It goes into
a private character set that can be linked to a selected font or with all
fonts. Assuming you link to all fonts, the way to use your new character is
to bring up the Character Map accessory (Charmap.exe), and in the font list
pick All Fonts (Private Characters). You wouldn't want to design a whole
font this way but for it's fine for a quick hack and there is virtually no
learning curve.
-
Maybe interesting enough for some readers at least. I know I'm gonna play
with it for a while.
Mightykitten
1) Windows 2000 SP2 or higher
2) Windows XP
3) A font face you won't regret to mess up (it can only alter fontfaces)
The downer:
It is only usable on a single PC. It is a remapping of a character set, not
a real truetypefont. But it works for the fonts on your own PC in all your
TrueType enabled applications
Shamelessly copyed and paste it from http://www.pcplus.co.uk
Microsoft's free font editor
Did you know it was there?
Ever looked in vain through various fonts for just the right character? Or
wished that one of the characters was a little bit different? Various
third-party font editors exist, but did you know that Windows XP and 2000
with Service Pack 2 have a native font editor? I didn't either until a
friend heard about it on the grapevine.
Look for a program called Eudcedit.exe and if you've got it, run it. The
editing window works like an icon editor, with a pixel grid and basic tools
with which to edit designs. Left click to set a pixel, right-click to un-set
it.
But who wants blocky pixellated characters? Worry not - although the editor
works on pixels, behind the scenes it estimates a vector representation of
your work and that's what gets written to the font file. The vector outline
can be seen by going to the View menu and turning on 'Show Outline'. Guessed
outlines of complex curves do not have the quality of a vector created using
a gown-up font editor. For straight lines the quality should be fine.
Easier than creating a well-formed character from scratch is to modify a
copy of an existing character. Go to Window, Reference. Pick a font and then
a character. It will appear to the right of the editing pane. There you can
select, copy and paste all or part of the shape.
When saving the new character, it doesn't replace the original. It goes into
a private character set that can be linked to a selected font or with all
fonts. Assuming you link to all fonts, the way to use your new character is
to bring up the Character Map accessory (Charmap.exe), and in the font list
pick All Fonts (Private Characters). You wouldn't want to design a whole
font this way but for it's fine for a quick hack and there is virtually no
learning curve.
-
Maybe interesting enough for some readers at least. I know I'm gonna play
with it for a while.
Mightykitten