my gemini capsule source
capsule: Add verovio post index
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diff --git a/capsule/2021-02-20-font-creation.gmi b/capsule/2021-02-20-font-creation.gmi index e0f1ec3..a4b3d22 100644 --- a/capsule/2021-02-20-font-creation.gmi +++ b/capsule/2021-02-20-font-creation.gmi @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Still, I managed to create almost 50 glyphs before getting tired of the project. => https://gitlab.com/earboxer/fossmoji clone the source code ## Sanos (2020) -Yeah, this is a sans-serif font, though it has nothing to do with a finger-snapping villian. Sanos was named after its parent-font, "Tinos": a font metrically compatible with Times New Roman. Why make a TNR-compatible font? It was all for the music engraving software Verovio, (more on Verovio some other day). For automatic spacing, it assumes the font characters are the size of those in Times New Roman. Fortunately, there are several of these: Liberation Serif, Tinos, and Thorndale. Unfortunately, none are sans-serif, which was an important feature for My.Hymnary.org's presentation system we were developing at work. +Yeah, this is a sans-serif font, though it has nothing to do with a finger-snapping villian. Sanos was named after its parent-font, "Tinos": a font metrically compatible with Times New Roman. Why make a TNR-compatible font? It was all for the music engraving software Verovio, (more on Verovio some other day¹). For automatic spacing, it assumes the font characters are the size of those in Times New Roman. Fortunately, there are several of these: Liberation Serif, Tinos, and Thorndale. Unfortunately, none are sans-serif, which was an important feature for My.Hymnary.org's presentation system we were developing at work. => sanos.png A musical score with Sanos, a sans serif modification of Tinos. I opened up Steve Matteson's apache-licensed font using Fontforge, and started tweaking away! My biggest gripe with sans fonts is the Ambiguous Illness: that is, the tendency of the capital I and lowercase l to be indistinguishable. I've been using my preferred solution since grade school: keep the foundation and canopy on the big I. Besides this decision, the modification was fairly straightforward. Credit to Steve Matteson, of course, for Tinos. => sanos.zip Download Sanos @@ -51,3 +51,5 @@ Should you use left and txt2chr to create your next font? Maybe. It's really eas So, there's my little five-font adventure for you. I think all computer users should try making and using their own fonts some time, but maybe it's fair to say not everyone shares this stripe of creative drive. => mailto:~earboxer/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht?subject=fonts Comments accepted via email in public inbox! + +=> 2021-08-17-verovio.gmi Footnote 1: Post about Verovio I wrote on 'another day'. diff --git a/capsule/index.gmi b/capsule/index.gmi index a3a6d2d..1254b3e 100644 --- a/capsule/index.gmi +++ b/capsule/index.gmi @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ # Zach's Capsule ## Things kept to be preserved +=> 2021-08-17-verovio.gmi 2021-08-17 Verovio: How I became a contributor to a large open-source project. => 2021-02-20-font-creation.gmi 2021-02-20 Font Creation: My story of font creation, with various software. => 2020-11-01-action-jones.gemini 2020-11-01 Action Jones: The Story of a Lost Piece of Cultural History |