[Freebangfont-devel] announcement/RFC: new fonts

[Deepayan Sarkar]

I recently (re)discovered some nice features of fontforge (formerly 
pfaedit) which significantly reduces the development time required to 
create new fonts (at least compared to the way I used to do it). 
Basically this consists of using the 'Expand Stroke' feature in 
fontforge, which has a variety of options leading to different styles 
from the same basic outline.

Anyway, using this approach, I have managed to create a couple of new 
fonts from scratch in about 5 days (starting from the template, of 
course, which takes care of the opentype lookups). The main work, i.e. 
creating the basic glyph shapes, took 3 days, and the rest was mainly 
figuring out suitable parameters (and occasionally booting up Windows 
to see if it liked the results).

I have put up the results at 

http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/Jamrul/JamrulNormal.ttf
http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/Hortuki/HortukiNormal.ttf

They are far from perfect, but good enough as a first draft. I would 
appreciate any testing and feedback. 

I'm happy to supply more details if anyone's interested.

Deepayan