1. letters made better

2. introduction to font designing
letters made better
introduction to font designing
Hiran Venugopalan

3. who am I Hiran Venugopalan Student, B Tech, Vidya Academy, Thrissur
Free software activist.
Contributor : SMC, Enlightenment, Inkscape, Fontforge.
Creator : Fonts named Dyuthi, Perizia, Rufscript.
Loves : Digital Typography, Python, UI Layout, Encryption.
T : E :
B : hiraneffects.blogspot.com IRC: HFactor

4. font and its functions

5. from metal glyphs to fontfiles
history
from metal glyphs to fontfiles

6. computer is a stupid

7. language handling

8. ASCII and UNICODE

9. why
a font should be free?

10. Free software Fonts

11. DeJaVu

12. Softwares Used
GNU/Linux
Inkscape
Fontforge
GIMP
Waterfall
Fontypython

13. Step by Step Design Glyph (Bitmap) Convert to Vector Image
Place it in the unicode positions
Correct the spacing and such things
Add required values
Compile!

14. do you feel it is
a simple task?

15. I did.

16. I did.
before I made a font.

17. Patience is a requirement
Rule #1
Patience is a requirement

18. character and glyph
A A A A A A A A A

19. types of fonts
Bitmap
Stroked
Outline

20. Question
How many glyphs are required for
a very simple English font?

21. Answer 26 upper case 26 lower case 10 numbers 4 pair of brackets
24 symbols
space and null
GRAND 96

22. and each glyphs has

23. from fontforge documentation

24. moving deeper

25. making the glyph draw -> scan -> bitmap OR draw (using software)
Tools : GIMP, Inkscape, Imagemagik

26. Tools : Fontforge, autotrace, Inkscape, Potrace
putting to grid
trace
smooth the curves
Tools : Fontforge, autotrace, Inkscape, Potrace

27. design the space space between chars length of space
seperation & position of special symbols
Tools : Fontforge, Waterfall, Gedit

28. multiple code point collection for a glyph
Indic Font Designing
complexity of glyphs
multiple code point collection for a glyph
rendering Issues

29. Indic Font Designing
image copied from

30. Indic Font Designing
image copied from

31. Indic Font Designing
image copied from

32. Font archive should contain
Licensing
SIL Open Font License
GNU GPL v3 + FE
Font archive should contain
TTF File
SFD File
COPYING
ORGIN
README

33. links for reference Inkscape : inkscape.org GIMP : gimp.org
Font Forge : fontforge.sf.net
Inkscape : inkscape.org
GIMP : gimp.org
GNU GPL v3 : gplv3.fsf.org
IRC Channel : ##fonts

34. questions?

35. wake up. I need to say thanks T : +91 9846951870 E : hiran.v@gmail.com
B : hiraneffects.blogspot.com IRC: HFactor

36. thanks to Hussain Sir and Suresh [Suruma] who made me a font designer.
Developers of Fontforge, GNU, Inkscape, GIMP.
Thanks to Hitha, Anivar, Praveen, Baiju, Santhsoh, Riyas, Pramode C E, Sujith , C K Raju, Shyam, Mobin, Unni, Manu Anand , Anwar, Kiran, Sheen, Lithu, Vimal, Chinnu, Lalu, Sangeeth, Rahul B, Niyam, Ani peter, Manilal, (Gn)Anoop, Kishore, Renjith (NITC) and friends at ##font IRC (specially to simos and nim-nim).
© 2008 Hiran Venugopalan Under GNU GPL Version 3. The font used is Periziaa. Images used and the slide templete is under GNU GPL version 3, made using Inkscape.