Re: [Fontforge-users] Outline font with white inset

[William A. <wil...@fr...>]

On Sep 27, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Kent Mechem wrote:

> I am trying to figure out if it is possible to have an outline font  
> (outline in black) and the inset white.  All the outline fonts I  
> have been able to come up with have all had transparent insets.  In  
> the particular application where I want to use them the transparent  
> feature just doesn't cut it.  Is it possible to do this in fontforge?

There are fonts which have this as a ``feature'' such as David Lemon's  
Copal, or, Rosewood and some of the other Adobe Wood Type fonts ---  
it's typically done by using 1 character per desired colour, so for a  
black font w/ white knockouts one would design a pair of characters,  
one a zero-width, solid one for the white (which would go first), then  
a second cut out one for the black.

Unfortunately the effect then has to be manually applied by the user.

William


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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications