filoplume Posted July 14, 2022 Posted July 14, 2022 Hi! Just thought of this. Don't ask me why 🙂 I have a Wacom tablet and a color scanner. I guess they would be brushes? Or fonts I guess would be the right answer. How could I make them good enough so I can use them legibly in something? Thank! Quote
Andy05 Posted July 14, 2022 Posted July 14, 2022 There's much more when it comes to creating a good font/typeface rather than just scanning/creating simple letters. You might want to prepare all characters in designer as vector objects. And for creating a font, there are dedicated apps for this. Some are even open source like Birdfont or FontFord. Quote »There are three responses to a piece of design: yes, no, and wow. Wow is the one to aim for.« Milton Glaser (1929 - 2020)
Guest Posted July 14, 2022 Posted July 14, 2022 One of the easiest and fastest ways to convert your handwriting to a font is using https://www.calligraphr.com/ …it provides you with printed guides to draw your glyphs which you then upload via scans or exported files (if you use a tablet) from which it automatically generates the font for you. You can also tweak size and spacing within the web app. Quote
thomaso Posted July 14, 2022 Posted July 14, 2022 Another one is http://www.yourfonts.com/ (whatever this means: "Just $9.95 (plus $5.00 if you upload both template pages) - only purchase if you're satisfied!") Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1  • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
Alfred Posted July 14, 2022 Posted July 14, 2022 4 minutes ago, thomaso said: (whatever this means: "Just $9.95 (plus $5.00 if you upload both template pages) - only purchase if you're satisfied!") It presumably means what it says! Having previewed your font, you need to pay if you want to download the font file, but if you choose not to download it then it won’t cost you anything. thomaso 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
filoplume Posted July 14, 2022 Author Posted July 14, 2022 Thanks everyone! Good stuff. Maybe if it turns out, I will post an alphabet 🙂 I do have some add-ons by Ian Barnard but it wouldn't be my handwriting. I would also like to do something simple with black (or colored) letters with a shadow of some sort. That is what made me think of using my own handwriting. I taught myself architectural lettering like architect's daughter but in the process I discovered that the writing really isn't that neat and orderly after all hehe. I don't like the bars in an A and others extending past the rest of the letter, ...  Alfred 1 Quote
thomaso Posted July 14, 2022 Posted July 14, 2022 1 hour ago, filoplume said: I would also like to do something simple with black (or colored) letters with a shadow of some sort. That is what made me think of using my own handwriting. Maybe worth to know that the use of coloured, variable fonts is limited in Affinity yet. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=variable fonts&quick=1&search_and_or=and&sortby=relevancy Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1  • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
filoplume Posted July 14, 2022 Author Posted July 14, 2022 2 hours ago, thomaso said: Maybe worth to know that the use of coloured, variable fonts is limited in Affinity yet. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=variable fonts&quick=1&search_and_or=and&sortby=relevancy  Thank you. I forgot about that but I did remember that adding effects to text does not work well. I am so glad that Affinity-Serif keeps making improvements to their incredible suite!  Quote
thomaso Posted July 14, 2022 Posted July 14, 2022 27 minutes ago, filoplume said: adding effects to text does not work well. I am not aware of an Affinity effect not working with text. Maybe I misread your goal … 5 hours ago, filoplume said: to do something simple with black (or colored) letters with a shadow of some sort. … you would want to create a font including this effects, the so called "variable fonts", which can be coloured / multicoloured within the font file, as mentioned in the various threads in the link above. Whereas you can colourize text in several ways in Affinity + create a shadow with an Affinity effect or another workflow. Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1  • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
walt.farrell Posted July 14, 2022 Posted July 14, 2022 51 minutes ago, thomaso said: I am not aware of an Affinity effect not working with text. Maybe I misread your goal … Possibly the reference is to text becoming rasterized during export when effects are applied? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC:    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090   Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
thomaso Posted July 14, 2022 Posted July 14, 2022 7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Possibly the reference is to text becoming rasterized during export when effects are applied? The OP mentioned colour and shadow. Both don't require rasterization. Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1  • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
filoplume Posted July 15, 2022 Author Posted July 15, 2022 5 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Possibly the reference is to text becoming rasterized during export when effects are applied? It was something I read in the docs for some brushes and styles for Designer and Photo. I will try and find what he wrote. I just tried adding the base AD styles to a font and they looked fine. Not sure what I am remembering. Thanks Walt! Quote
Alfred Posted July 15, 2022 Posted July 15, 2022 8 hours ago, thomaso said: The OP mentioned colour and shadow. Both don't require rasterization. Doesn’t that depend on how you do it (e.g. a Colour Fill effect for the colour and a Gaussian Blur effect applied to the shadow)? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
thomaso Posted July 15, 2022 Posted July 15, 2022 5 minutes ago, Alfred said: Doesn’t that depend on how you do it (e.g. a Colour Fill effect for the colour and a Gaussian Blur effect applied to the shadow)? There are workflows which cause rasterization. But it is not required for others. Alfred 1 Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1  • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
filoplume Posted July 19, 2022 Author Posted July 19, 2022 On 7/14/2022 at 4:38 AM, thomaso said: Another one is http://www.yourfonts.com/ (whatever this means: "Just $9.95 (plus $5.00 if you upload both template pages) - only purchase if you're satisfied!") $10? What the heck! It sure is worth a try, Any way, it seems fun to me! Now I have to practice my writing a little bit, especially in their grid. Thanks. I am also going to try calligraphr.com and the other suggestions here. Thanks so much! If things turn out acceptable, I may post a sample image here. Alfred and thomaso 2 Quote
thomaso Posted July 19, 2022 Posted July 19, 2022 1 hour ago, filoplume said: If things turn out acceptable, I may post a sample image here. Yes! And, in case you run into an app which allows several shapes per char (to write with variations) tell us, too, please! Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1  • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
Alfred Posted July 19, 2022 Posted July 19, 2022 56 minutes ago, thomaso said: Yes! And, in case you run into an app which allows several shapes per char (to write with variations) tell us, too, please! Any app which supports contextual alternates, stylistic sets or ligature substitution should be able to do that. Take a look at the ones mentioned earlier in this thread by @Andy05. Jenna Appleseed 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
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