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SignWriting List October 3, 2014 Thank you, Steve, for this remarkable work! We look forward to using these new SignWriting fonts, and I also know they will be useful for further software development too - and for the new Unicode version 8 that is coming out in mid-2015. Val ;-) ——— On Oct 3, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Stephen E Slevinski Jr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi SignWriting List, > > I've had great success creating TrueType fonts for the SignWriting symbols. The fonts are fully functional but not production ready. I need to clean up some of the images and adjust the typography settings. I've published the fonts I've created on Github. > > The SignWriting 2010 Fonts project > * https://github.com/Slevinski/signwriting_2010_fonts > Production and development TrueType fonts with source SVG files for written sign language in the SignWriting script based on the ISWA 2010. > > I've also released the tools project that created the above TrueType fonts. I spent extra time crafting the build script so that it is customizable and informative. Each of the fonts above has an associated log file that details the font's creation. > > The SignWriting 2010 Tools project > * https://github.com/Slevinski/signwriting_2010_tools > Tools for creating TrueType fonts for written sign language in the SignWriting script based on the ISWA 2010. > > The image quality of the TrueType font is not as nice as the SVG, but the TrueType font can be installed on a computer or mobile device and save a tremendous amount of bandwidth. Pages that use the TrueType font will be 30 times smaller than pages that use the server side generated SVGs. > > Initially, 2 fonts will need to be installed: "SignWriting 2010" and "SignWriting 2010 Filling". Each of these fonts is a single color, so together they can imitate the 2-color required for SignWriting. The main color font is 6 MB and the secondary color font is 3 MB. > > Development continues... > > Regards, > ∼Steve > http://slevinski.github.io/ > > ________________________________________________ > > > SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION > > Valerie Sutton > SignWriting List moderator > [log in to unmask] > > Post Messages to the SignWriting List: > [log in to unmask] > > SignWriting List Archives & Home Page > http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist > > Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages > http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1 > ________________________________________________ SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator [log in to unmask] Post Messages to the SignWriting List: [log in to unmask] SignWriting List Archives & Home Page http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1