Recreating historical fonts as a vector image... how?

[Wosven]

Really nice @firstdefence ,

Don't forget this was made with a nib, so the strokes shouldn't be regular but have parts whidther or thiner depending of the angle we put our hand for writing (±45° for black letters).

And even with large nibs, a good calligrapher will have nice strokes (not regular width and angular as in some fonts).

This example 's got error but it shows how supple the strokes should be

Here we've got the full alphabet.

 

1280px-Calligraphy.malmesbury.bible.arp.afdesign

Some working file (but the alphabet is incomplete and the "w" need to be finished)

UnitedStatesPatentOffice.afdesign

 

It seems few words are written in blackletter on the patent, more work should be done for "Witnesses, Inventor and Attorneys, and with another calligraphy with floorishes : Fig. 1, 2, 3.

 

[firstdefence]

3 hours ago, Stevenlgts said:

@firstdefenceWow, that looks awesome!  Did you happen to see the email from the Affinity Team about downloading the beta for Affinity Publisher?

Yes Installed and I have already got it to crash lol!

[Alfred]

15 minutes ago, Wosven said:



[firstdefence]

50 minutes ago, Wosven said:

Really nice @firstdefence ,

Don't forget this was made with a nib, so the strokes shouldn't be regular but have parts whidther or thiner depending of the angle we put our hand for writing (±45° for black letters).

And even with large nibs, a good calligrapher will have nice strokes (not regular width and angular as in some fonts).

This example 's got error but it shows how supple the strokes should be

Here we've got the full alphabet.

 

1280px-Calligraphy.malmesbury.bible.arp.afdesign

Some working file (but the alphabet is incomplete and the "w" need to be finished)

UnitedStatesPatentOffice.afdesign

 

It seems few words are written in blackletter on the patent, more work should be done for "Witnesses, Inventor and Attorneys, and with another calligraphy with floorishes : Fig. 1, 2, 3.

 

I wanted to try and make some sense of the image, well to see if what I created made much sense, I used to do calligraphy; a very meditative art.

Actually in the course of doodling I made a calligraphy brush in pixel persona but that was behaving oddly, the displayed brush head was not showing intuitively, it was actually the opposite angle of the nib displayed in the brush properties panel, see image for details.

Something else I've only just noticed is, rotation is Percent, I would have thought rotation would/should have been in Degrees; how do you set a 45º nib?

[Wosven]

On 8/31/2018 at 8:38 AM, αℓƒяє∂ said:

I send you a higher resolution one

On 8/31/2018 at 9:05 AM, firstdefence said:

how do you set a 45º nib?

I'm sorry, I missed your posts and didn't answered

The hard part to set 45° (your brush seems ok, degres are a general indication depending of calligraphies to try to keep the nib in at the right angle), is that it should slightly change angle to produce a little bit more or less thickness (= more supple strokes). Perhaps it's possible to obtain this with the rotation jitter set on pressure? And it would need more accumulation at the end of the strokes when raising the nib from the hu… screen

There's good scan of calligraphied texts today on internet and you should be able to set different brushes at different angles for different calligraphy.

It's a meditative and soothing skill as you said, but I noticed it didn't help to calm you when you are in a bad mood and produce terribles strokes

 

[Wosven]

@firstdefence ,

Ho! And I'll try yours settings for a brush, but I'm not skilled enough to have good results. I hope you'll show what can be achieve if you have time to do this.