Now that we have the ability to see glyphs in both SCAL4 and eCAL for windows or mac (yeahhhh). How about we start a thread of the fonts we are all using.
Of course, the Samantha font is awesome.
What are popular Glyph Fonts?
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What are popular Glyph Fonts?
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Re: What are popular Glyph Fonts?
Great question!
There are only 4 designers I know of right now that are specially encoding their fonts to work with Character Map and by association, SCAL 4.
Those designers are
Laura Worthington (Samantha, Adorn, etc.)
Debi Sementelli (Cantoni Pro, etc.)
Stephen Rapp (ShoeBob, etc.)
Yellow Design Studio (Melany Lane, but not all his fonts)
Here are 3 free fonts that are PUA encoded, great for trying out this feature
http://www.fairgoods.com/products/milkshake
http://www.dafont.com/gist.font
http://www.dafont.com/gist-upright.font
Some designers are using a different approach and break their font up into several subfonts so they work in any program.
One popular example is Desire which is broken into 8 uppercase and 2 lowercase alphabets. This isn't going to be nearly as easy to work with, but it works no matter what software you have.
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/charlesborges/desire/
Please join me in thanking designers who go to the effort to do this and encourage others to do so as well. It's time we break the Adobe Illustrator chokehold!
There are only 4 designers I know of right now that are specially encoding their fonts to work with Character Map and by association, SCAL 4.
Those designers are
Laura Worthington (Samantha, Adorn, etc.)
Debi Sementelli (Cantoni Pro, etc.)
Stephen Rapp (ShoeBob, etc.)
Yellow Design Studio (Melany Lane, but not all his fonts)
Here are 3 free fonts that are PUA encoded, great for trying out this feature
http://www.fairgoods.com/products/milkshake
http://www.dafont.com/gist.font
http://www.dafont.com/gist-upright.font
Some designers are using a different approach and break their font up into several subfonts so they work in any program.
One popular example is Desire which is broken into 8 uppercase and 2 lowercase alphabets. This isn't going to be nearly as easy to work with, but it works no matter what software you have.
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/charlesborges/desire/
Please join me in thanking designers who go to the effort to do this and encourage others to do so as well. It's time we break the Adobe Illustrator chokehold!