Re: On fonts
Posted: 09 Aug 2014, 19:25
I was just going to retrace the letters from one of the Cyrillic variants linked by pvdk.
EDIT: Thanks for the image scrawl, I will get to tracing soon. I just tested and I can import .eps exports from flash into fontforge just fine, so I should be able to trace, export, and import into fontforge, position, and save.
For reference, how many locales has Morrowind been translated/ported to? I know there's a Russian and a French version, I think a polish version too, but a good comprehensive list would be nice. I imagine all the characters we need will be covered in Latin and Cyrillic though.
EDIT 2: I begun tracing today, my method of tracing in flash then importing the letters into FontForge as .eps worked nicely. I got the capital A finished just to test the waters.
I've dubbed the font "Open Magicka" as a play on "Magic Cards". I'll try to trace at least one letter every so often. I'm tracing based off of the various versions of Magic Cards I have on my computer and the image exports scrawl provided. I'm basically trying to match up the fonts I have to the original font export as best I can then tracing the closest match. My target is a font that contains all the characters in the game's Magic Cards font as well as the Cyrillic characters in the fonts pvdk linked.
That is my initial target, it'll be a fair bit of work but it'll be really nice to have an Open Source version of this font. I hope I won't disappoint!
EDIT: Thanks for the image scrawl, I will get to tracing soon. I just tested and I can import .eps exports from flash into fontforge just fine, so I should be able to trace, export, and import into fontforge, position, and save.
For reference, how many locales has Morrowind been translated/ported to? I know there's a Russian and a French version, I think a polish version too, but a good comprehensive list would be nice. I imagine all the characters we need will be covered in Latin and Cyrillic though.
EDIT 2: I begun tracing today, my method of tracing in flash then importing the letters into FontForge as .eps worked nicely. I got the capital A finished just to test the waters.
I've dubbed the font "Open Magicka" as a play on "Magic Cards". I'll try to trace at least one letter every so often. I'm tracing based off of the various versions of Magic Cards I have on my computer and the image exports scrawl provided. I'm basically trying to match up the fonts I have to the original font export as best I can then tracing the closest match. My target is a font that contains all the characters in the game's Magic Cards font as well as the Cyrillic characters in the fonts pvdk linked.
That is my initial target, it'll be a fair bit of work but it'll be really nice to have an Open Source version of this font. I hope I won't disappoint!