Custom font
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- helloeatbreathedrive
What a dreary morning, anyway, working on a custom font but based on a well known type, what kinda changes & customization do I need to make it my font? Any pointers like change at least 10 point here and there etc?
Appreciated,
- Gnash1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In…
^ have a look at these cases for a little insight. it's a grey area.
- Thanks!helloeatbreathedrive
- It seems that it's not so much the shape of the font that is protected, but the software /outlines that delivers those shapes to your computer/print/inter...Gnash
- detritus1
You mean in an entirely legit sense, or enough to get away with, sort of hoping no one really notices?
If the former - you need fundamentally alter each glyph, ensuring that each point is not in the same position and angle as the original, that each metric is a slight bit different in turn. They can't overly accuse a like for like copy that's been entirely built from scratch, but if there's any evidence at all that your version is an edited save of theirs, then you're fucked.
- Laterally, I once upon a time stripped a font of all unrequired glyphs and then put on a slight outline (eg. 0.1pt) outline and re-exported, for use on a sitedetritus
- ...it helped that I only needed upper case.
= totally different KB size, significantly different bytecode/fingerprint... totally different meta datadetritus
- helloeatbreathedrive0
detritus - definitely creating new based on the former, however the touch points, breaks & spacing etc will be all custom so I think it's not about getting away with it rather, reminiscent but a whole new type family.
Thanks fellas!
- shapesalad0
Imagine you feed an AI just about every font file ever made. Get the AI to study what makes a glyph into a particular letter, what are the variations and variables between different fonts across each glyph. Then feed all that AI algorithm goodness into a simple GUI, so we can type in a company name, heading, paragraph of text etc, and then have some GUI sliders to fine tune the type into our own unique custom font. Then have it export out a complete font set, thin, bold, italic included.
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https://www.prototyp…Gnash - Not that, but..
https://erikbern.com…detritus - ^ you can't import a 'starter" font, thoughGnash
- nice link, DetGnash
- Likewise! I remember reading about yours in HN but completely forgot to follow it up. Pretty neat.detritus
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