Flash Fonter
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As Flash websites have proliferated some typographers have taken to creating special pixel-based TrueType fonts which render cleanly and sharply at low resolution on such sites. Craig Kroeger, of miniml.com, gave a demonstration of this technique at TypeCon 2003. Such fonts act like bitmap fonts in that they are not anti-aliased and turn on specific pixels in a grid when displayed at the size for which they were designed. The Fontlab guys were so impressed with this that they immediately sat down and hammered out a Python plug-in for FontLab that largely automates the process of creating one of these fonts. The plug-in, tentatively named FlashFonter, will quickly and easily create a ‘pixel-font’ TrueType font for a specific pixel size from any installed TrueType font. No more fuzzy fonts in Flash!
Could've done with this a few years ago, can't help thinking it's a little bit too late now...
- jg_20
where to download? where where where where where where where..........?
- Jnr_Madison0
Yeah..
- stimuli0
It's being unveiled at the end of the month. Since it's just a Python extension I think it might be reasonably inexpensive (or free?). It might even be built into later versions of Fontlab. People will lap it up, regardless.