The iso3098 specifies four types of the standardised lettering. Here comes the problem of scaling, size as well.įontforge claims to prefer integer coordinates between -2^15 and 2^15, while keeping the em size at 2048. In inkscape that means some more extra nodes and whatnot. That means I'll have to rebuild the typeset to match a Bézier implementation. I assume fontforge or font renderers have no possibility to keep circular arcs as circular and trick the eye with Béziers. As far as I know inkscape can display circular path arcs but has no gui for drawing those. However there one can draw circular arcs for fill object opposed to inksape's Bézier only interface. Started drawing the outlines in a cad program and have some progress. Cubic seems easier to be handled if inkscape is also taking part of the project. I'm not much interested in file size but the output quality. However the mentioned above osifont and isocpeur were designed both with quadratic splines. Inkscape uses cubic Béziers instead of quadratic by default. Preferred font output should be opentype font. So it's time to learn the basics first right? Loads ever so slow, cannot log in nor find the information on what resources to look up.įontlibrary suggested going full fontforge. Thought to get some help from typophile however their new webpage is quite a bummer. Planning to share the font at some point at fontlibrary. My weapon of choice -out of lack of knowledge about other open font design softwares up for the job- is fontforge. The most commonly suggested equivalent is isocpeur. Since they are proprietary, and are not offering a font but a directive, there is not much to work with.įirst, there are a few font versions already available however they are not "free" as they could be, nor complete or precise in a pedantic way. Could find parts in North-Korean language or Italian but as they are illegal they are probably temporary "leaks". There are some pirate copies surfacing the interwebs here and there. The standard is distributed by ISO - International Organization for Standardization. You can buy a pricy copy of it to know what to follow. This font is specified by a proprietary standard. It is conventional to use one font to communicate the information in the clearest form. Not that there aren't better suited fonts for your like and drafting works, but to keep a common ground. Trying to produce a public domain font up with the ISO3098 requirements -the standardised font for technical drawings.įor technical drawings it is advised to follow some standards. It is related to the technical drawing templates extravaganza topic. Seeing the latest work in progress topic was lettering design (8 months ago.) thought I'd share my learning process of how to start off with font designing.
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