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Toronto

Postby ChristTrekker » 21 Jan 2009, 13:53

I'm trying my hand at building a TT font, and decided to base my first one on the System 6 city font Toronto. The problem is I don't have a System 6 machine. I've found some good screenshots online but don't have the full character repertoire yet. If someone wouldn't mind taking a screen cap of the symbols and accented characters at 24pt and posting it somewhere, that would be great.

When I get a first draft, I intend to let all you guys try it out first. :)
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first public unveiling

Postby ChristTrekker » 09 Feb 2009, 21:55

First demo is available. Virtually nothing has been done w.r.t. hinting/tracking/kerning ... basically the letter shapes are there and that's it. It's also still missing some of the standard ASCII symbols, but OTOH it has a bunch of extended characters. (Total 599 characters.) That said, it's probably already as usable as Toronto was if not moreso.

Feedback appreciated, especially from those that have Toronto installed.
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0.5

Postby ChristTrekker » 18 Feb 2009, 22:47

The version linked above is now version 0.5, which has fairly comprehensive kerning, and a fairly complete set of characters. There are a few things I think I'll still tweak, but not much unless I get feedback. I'm going to take a bit of a break from this, so please try it out and let me know what you think.
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Re: Toronto

Postby joshc » 18 Feb 2009, 22:49

Just downloaded it -- nice work, looks very nice. Making a font is NOT easy!

EDIT: Did you try System 6 in vMac?
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Re: Toronto

Postby ChristTrekker » 19 Feb 2009, 03:01

wackymacs wrote:Just downloaded it -- nice work, looks very nice. Making a font is NOT easy!

Thanks! Yeah...now I know how hard it is, even for a simple design like this one!

Did you find the "Easter eggs" yet? :)
wackymacs wrote:EDIT: Did you try System 6 in vMac?

No time... :(
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Re: Toronto

Postby macgeek417 » 19 Feb 2009, 20:48

Looks good in OS X 10.3.9!
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0.7

Postby ChristTrekker » 04 Mar 2010, 21:32

OK, it's been over a year, and since I have four font (and several non-font) projects in the works in my very, very, very limited spare time, this hasn't seen a ton of progress. But I wanted to post something so that anyone interested won't think it's totally dead. Up to 988 characters now. At least one more easter egg that wasn't in the last posted version. Feedback welcome.
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0.10

Postby ChristTrekker » 03 Jun 2010, 17:53

Go get 0.10, at the same link as the previous post. More characters, more tweaks.

I'd especially like to hear from anybody that has Toronto installed and can compare side-by-side.
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