Sunday, June 17, 2012

paradoxx comment

Since comments on fontstruct.com for paradoxx have been closed (for some reason,) I thought I would post mine here.

Can we please get a question mark? There is no clone option available for paradoxx, or I would have attempted to simply add one.

That is, until I got a close look at the FontStructions editor. I sincerely believe that Flash software is abused about as often as it is effectively used. In almost all cases where Flash is used as a UI (as with FontStructions), things start to get downright spooky. For instance, using the eraser tool was an exercise in guess-where-I'm-going-to-erase-next. I couldn't see what the eraser tool would affect, and there was no undo. (It's that old pesky UI problem again; Flash UI's always look half complete, in this case, undo (just to one level, never mind multiple undo's) is probably on the list of future enhancements.)

What does work? Type light 3.2 - a freeware OpenType™ font editor; there are some restrictions on use, but for simply editing one character, this looks like it fits the bill.

My cobbled attempt (above; the first question mark is whatever the OpenOffice writer grabs, the second is my first attempt at a paradoxx looking q/m.)
I want to add a question mark character to the paradoxx True Type file, as time permits. ;-)