Ideograph by Traitor Vic
Font:Ideograph
Author:Traitor Vic
Post Date:June 4, 2009
Comments:Ideograph is on page 46 of Special Effects and Topical Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo and also on page 72 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.

From: Traitor Vic <traitorvic©gmail.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:17:38 -0500 Subject: My First Fonts - 1 attachment Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts Hiya, folks! I have recently been experimenting with ScanFont and FontLab and have created a few fonts that I would like to share with you so that I can get some feedback about any problems I might be having and don't know about. The fonts I have created are based on designs of Display Fonts from the book "Special Effecs and Topical Alphabets" (1978, Dover Publications), by Dan X. Solo. They are as follows: Ideograph I named Ideograph as a secondary version because Solo has released this font previously. The one that appeared in the book, however, is slightly different. Ideograph is very similar to the font Bamboo. Grog Caps is similar to Racankowski's Nitemare Caps. All of these fonts contain only the characters that were used in the book and, therefore, have limited extended character sets. Please let me know of any problems you notice with any of them or any advice you can give me for future projects. Thanks! - Traitor Vic Attachment: TraitorVicFonts.zip [See font download link below]

From: "meg99az" <marcg9addfour9s@a99o99l.com> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:47:33 -0700 Subject: Re: My First Fonts - 1 attachment Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts You did a nice job. You need to check how your newsreader is posting these - it looks like it tried to turn this into a split post, but only part 1 came through. Usenet oldies will know what to do to recover three of the files in there, but casual users won't see your post. So, you can rezip and repost them, or just post each file individually. I would recommend adjusting your font names to include a distinct prefix. There are other fonts named Chinatown and Confucius. There are in fact lots of font name duplicates out there. There are several problems with this. First, the operating system can have just one so-named font at a time, understandably so. Second, for users, if you have hundreds or thousands of fonts, duplicate names can get confusing. Third, if you have old documents, or you lose or unload fonts, or if you take your work to a service bureau for production, and you then try to re-assemble all of your sources, you or the bureau might load the wrong Ideograph and have an unholy mess. With hundreds of thousands of digital fonts in circulation, this is a real problem. You could and should adopt a "foundry name", such as "TraitorVic" or just "TV", and start all your font names that way: TV Ideograph, TV Chinatown, etc. The OS can then use all of yours without conflict, users can keep it all straight in their minds, you will never load the wrong font by accident, and you get some good "marketing" or recognition by having some sort of brand on your titles. Nice work. Send the missing ones (Grog Caps and Ideograph). - meg - [....quoted text snipped....]
From: Character <Char@cters.bold.italic> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:03:49 -0700 Subject: Re: My First Fonts - 1 attachment Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts [....quoted text snipped....] Hi there - Your post seems to have been truncated at a 400,000 byte (EXACTLY) attachment, resulting in what most will see as a corrupt attachment. Xnews isn't the best posting software, and posting in yEnc will result in many people not being able to, or not bothering to see your attachments at all. I was able to extract the first three fonts by repairing the zip file with either winrar or pkfix (an old Phil Katz dos utility). So Grog Caps and Ideograph aren't there at all. Just a quick look indicates that you've done a nice job with the fonts. In FontLab, when you save as an OTF, if you've left the copyright field blank, it puts in an Adobe copyright. I'm sure you don't want that! - Character
From: Traitor Vic <traitorvic©gmail.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:06:29 -0500 Subject: Re: My First Fonts - 1 attachment Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts Thanks for the Heads-Up on the posting problem, folks! It may take me a while to work that one out, but I'm working on it now. As for the names currently attached to the fonts, I think I'll probably take Meg's suggestion and add a two- or three- character suffix to the names of all of the fonts that I create. I just need to figure out what that's going to be. I've not done too much with the copyright notices yet because I'm not sure what I have the right to claim. I didn't actually design the fonts. I simply digitized them from the original source. Others have done this, though, and have copyrighted the results. Is there a standard that must be reached in order to claim ownership? I'll try posting these files again (perhaps several different times if it takes it). Thanks for all the feedback. -Traitor Vic

From: Dick Margulis <margulisd©comcast.net> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:27:56 -0400 Subject: Re: My First Fonts - 1 attachment Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts Traitor Vic wrote: > Thanks for the Heads-Up on the posting problem, folks! It may take me a > while to work that one out, but I'm working on it now. > > As for the names currently attached to the fonts, I think I'll probably > take Meg's suggestion and add a two- or three- character suffix to the > names of all of the fonts that I create. I just need to figure out what > that's going to be. Actually, Meg suggested a prefix, not a suffix. The difference is sort order. Think about how you would want your fonts to be found--by your name (if you develop a following) or by the underlying typeface name. It's your choice. Just something to think about before you do it. > > I've not done too much with the copyright notices yet because I'm not sure > what I have the right to claim. I didn't actually design the fonts. I > simply digitized them from the original source. Others have done this, > though, and have copyrighted the results. Is there a standard that must be > reached in order to claim ownership? > Under US law (it's different in Europe), you cannot copyright the design, but you can copyright the digital font, which is classified as a computer program. So the originals, as printed in a specimen book for example, are fair game. This stinks from the original designers' perspective, of course; and it was a boneheaded court decision. But that's the way it is in this country.
From: Character <Char@cters.bold.italic> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:29:02 -0700 Subject: Re: My First Fonts - 1 attachment Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts [....quoted text snipped....] Re: Copyright notice - I won't (can't) get into the legalities of claiming copyright protection (has nothing to do with 'ownership'), but at the very least put SOMETHING there to avoid seeing the Adobe copyright. The Adobe notice gets put there because FontLab uses an Adobe applet for creating Opentype fonts; that applet looks at the © field and if there's nothing there it puts in its own notice. For the time being, you can get around the posting problem by posting one font at a time, zipped or unzipped as you prefer. If you must post in yEnc, then part of the yEnc protocol is to have 'yEnc' in the subject line. - Character
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