William Overington

I hope that that was intended as humour! That is a collection of some of the ligature glyphs in the font. I hope to add more later. Did you notice the conversation topic about typography that is in the image? William

Here is a copy of the second stage of development of an image using Pantone 8363. The image is from page 8 of the following thread. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/138654-artwork-for-greetings-cards/ As the background is white, clicking on the image shows the whole design more clearly. William

Alas, Affinity products do not support colour fonts. However, there is a workaround that is useful in some circumstances. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/128285-colour-fonts-and-affinity-products/ William

The Chronicle Text font is available from the following web page. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/fonts.htm William

The .afdesigb document is 1571 pixels wide by 2171 pixels high. I made the png to be 400 pixels wide, so it became 553 pixels high. Maybe it is because I used my Gallery font to get started. This was because the font that I had intended to use, my Chronicle Text font, was not installed. I have now installed Chronicle Text and updated the image, though this is only the second stage, So that design, if I order a card at Papier, is a three-in-one print, how the gold will look in CMYK, a print of the localizable sentence glyph, and a print of my Chronicle Text font. Do you notice the little conversation topic about typography that is built into the design? William

A first stage of a design. The size is not clear. Please click on the image. William

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/colour-vision-deficiency/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishihara_test William

@firstdefence Thank you. https://www.bardoptical.com/color-blindness-protanopia/ William

https://modeleng.proboards.com/thread/11835/stroudleys-improved-engine-green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-idIaBajtc William

I note that thomaso is in Cologne, Germany. Interestingly, William Caxton learned to print in Cologne. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/caxton_william.shtml https://www.bl.uk/treasures/caxton/flanderscol.html William

For many years I have been wary when someone says "of course". I try to quickly assess whether that is true or just someone purporting "of course" when it does not follow and may be just an opinion. William

However, a good place to discuss them is as follows. https://community.serif.com/discussions A place where there are many discussions. William

Some more English for you. I am of English nationality. I live in England. My native language is English. Someone can have a native language of English, yet not be of English nationality. For example, many people of United States of America nationality have English as their native language. Though not exactly the same type of English, as some words are spelled differently and a few words have a different meaning and some words are not used in the other language for some concept. For example, regarding roads. English people use the word 'roundabout' yet I think that American English uses the word 'rotary'. William

Perhaps it relates to a river "running its course". Also, there is "a course of action". https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/course+of+action However, lawyers have "a cause of action". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause_of_action William

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A https://www.pdfa.org/ https://www.pdfa.org/?s=pdf%2Fa William

Thank you. Alas, Affinity does not do pdf-a. William

Thank you. I have found the following link. https://firstcopy.co.uk/xerox-iridesse-production-press William

To conserve it at The British Library and elsewhere too so that it could be printed using a Pantone metallic ink, at some future time. I would make it available on the web, not for viewing on the web, but as a way of making it available so that it could become printed. William

Oh! William

Ah, it does seem rather a peculiar thing to do, yet there is a reason for me wanting to do that. Yesterday in page 8 of the thread https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/138654-artwork-for-greetings-cards/ I posted the following. ---- I am beginning to think that it may be the situation that metallic printing is in practice only available for quite large runs of litho printing. Also, that having more than one metallic ink in an image would be a very costly exercise. So, I am thinking that it may be that for me, as a hobbyist artist, the best that I can realistically achieve is to produce a design in Affinity Designer, make a jpg file and get a CMYK one-off print from Papier, as if it is a photo greeting card, but using artwork rather than a photograph and knowing that metallic ink will not be used, and also produce a PDF and send a copy to The British Library and note the doing of that in the greeting text inside the greeting card. But I am going to try to find out if metallic printing can be produced using digital ink jet printing or giclée printing. ---- So although I would make the PDF available on the web, thus it being published and therefore eligible for legal-deposit at The British Library, that publication is as a way to conserve my artistic design so that, hypothetically at least, it could become printed at some future time. Chance favours the prepared observer is the saying, and in a similar manner, chance favours the prepared inventor. William

Green!? William

Which type of PDF should I use please if I want to produce from Affinity Designer a PDF that includes a Pantone metallic colour (I am using Panton 8363 C as an example) such that the file can be published on the web and archived so that if at a future time a print using Pantone 8363 ink is to be produced, then the file contains all of the information needed to do that please? William

Thank you. From the image I found that Pantone 8363 C is a gold colour. It is the one next to the thumb in the picture. Here is a jpg using Pantone 8363 C. William

Oh, don't assume age here! Some of us remember the first Sputnik going up ... and round and round. Though I had not known of Ed Roth, but I am in England so maybe that explains it. Thank you for explaining the process by which you got to your final result and for including the intermediate stages. William

Two more side discussions. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/143324-finding-a-pantone-colour-in-affinity-designer/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/143350-does-anyone-here-have-access-to-the-pantone-metallic-chips-book-please/ I am beginning to think that it may be the situation that metallic printing is in practice only available for quite large runs of litho printing. Also, that having more than one metallic ink in an image would be a very costly exercise. So, I am thinking that it may be that for me, as a hobbyist artist, the best that I can realistically achieve is to produce a design in Affinity Designer, make a jpg file and get a CMYK one-off print from Papier, as if it is a photo greeting card , but using artwork rather than a photograph and knowing that metallic ink will not be used, and also produce a PDF and send a copy to The British Library and note the doing of that in the greeting text inside the greeting card. But I am going to try to find out if metallic printing can be produced using digital ink jet printing or giclée printing. William