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Yesterday I downloaded a super new demo, Font Creator by High-Logic, and i cracked open the Amarillo font to play with it. I am still in the midst of designing special characters (its time consuming) but I now have an Original Series friendly ship hull font to offer, anyone who wants to test it out. I have a complete character set of capital A-Z, duplicated as lower case A-Z (the lower case features the alternate versions of E and Z that differ from the real Trek versions) I also realize i need to include the alternate '7' that was used on "The Cage" Enterprise.. i just need to find somewhere to put it. I've corrected the slash (for shuttle registries), added a dash and fixed the period spacing. Right now, all I am doing is working on special characters with diaresis, acute, grave, tilde and circumflex, and adding symbols like colons, parenthesis, asterisk, ampersand and comma. Theres a few more punctuations i need to add too. http://captainmike.org/Stuff/FleetOS_demo.ttf Try it out.. here's a few samples I made:
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Great! I will have to try that out. So far I used a combination of Amarillo and Arial for the missing characters.
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Hey, that's nice work! Very close to the "real thing."
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I already added an uppercase eth, and have the thorn on my drawing board... Cyrillic is going to wait until i learn more about fonts, i have to see where they go in the character table.. im going to try cracking open a unicode font to dissect it for my knowledge this weeked.
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That looks very cool. I'll try to give it a shot in the next day or two as I've been working on a Galileo anyways.
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The only little quibble I have is that on your "C" the open ends don't seem to project far enough. If I remember correctly, shouldn't they have a short vertical section up and down after the diagonal parts? (I'm not sure if this is making much sense, but I dont know the proper terminology to use.) The "C" on your test doesn't quite look the same as the lettering on the ship.
You are right about the program, however. It's a gem. A few years ago I wanted to convert Star Trek BT (the font used on the AMT model decals) into something more accurate, and I also wanted to remove the border outline from Starfleet Bold Extended (don't ask why). The only tool I had to use was CorelDraw, and I had to import one character at a time, over and over again. That was an exercise in tedium I don't wish to repeat!
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argh.. despite my initial enthusiasm, i see that today my one month trial is almost expired, the the fonts on my drawing board largely unfinished... im actually considering paying for this one (unless i find a way to crack it...)
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