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Originally Posted by DChronos
Hey, you know what you need now? An M6 font CREATION tool for people to create their own 16x16 and 20x20 fonts with via a simple black and white pixel drawing program. You could make it have a large view for drawing on with a black grid (white tile squares) showing each pixel of the character you're creating, and a small view that shows what it will look like beside the large one. When you draw, you draw in black. Also, set it up so that you know what character you are drawing for, like at the top, it could say "Glyph for letter 'a'", so you know when you save the font, the glyph you drew is for that letter.
Also, the button assignments for the program would be easy: left click to draw black, right click to erase the black, and then an undo function. Also, the ability to import a font and view it in the size the same way your program does it would be awesome, so people could import a font and then make adjustments to each glyph if needed, or if they just want to.
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i'd like to oppose to this idea - i don't want to sound rude, but from my point of view creating a tool to draw 20x20 pixel big letters is a total waste of time.
typology is a very sensitive area, and you can't expect anyone that know's nothing about this to come up with a good font. additionally there are plenty of good fonts out there, that where made by ppl that really know what they are doing.
if you agree with me, that the available fonts will be supperior to those created without a masterplan by clicking on some squares, than you'll also have to see, that changing a font that doesn't quite match the meizus 16x16/20x20 in a graphic programm (PSD, Gimp) will be much easier than trying to recreate it by rather ancient technology.
btw: there is already a tool coming with windows, that allows to create fonts in the "square-clicking" manner you described - it's called paint :D
ps: if you don't believe me - just try to create a simple font from scratch
pps: i am not a native speaker - if something i wrote turned out a litte bit too strong, i hope you accept my pardon for this. i am not trying to offend anyone