Calling all typographers

[Toby Thain]

On 2016-04-28 1:43 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
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> On 28/04/2016 17:18, Paul Koning wrote:
>>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 8:19 AM, Rod
>>> Smallwood<rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com>  wrote:
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>>> I'd like to recover the DEC fonts and have looked at several font
>>> creator/editors. ...
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>>     paul
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> Oh I tried that one. Very powerful  I'm sure but I could not get it to
> do anything.
> Got as far as loading an empty font and picked a letter o
> goes to some kind of blank edit screen,
> click along top menu nothing about lines or circles get to help and drop
> down menu.
> Click on help and it comes up with something about glyphs
> I don't want Egyptian writing so I give up

A glyph is just a drawing of a specific character - applies to members 
of any font.

Font editors do tend to have a learning curve.

Here's another option found by googling: https://birdfont.org/
or https://glyphsapp.com/ which is commercial but has a 30 day trial...

--Toby


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