New font by Shockwave

[Shockwave]

I was looking at some of the fonts on my computer and there was one called Curls MT that really stood out.

Unfortunately it is a truetype font and because I wanted to use it I had to draw it.

So here it is after a long time and lots of hair pulling in fixed width format.

it is 20 * 20, most special characters are included, as are 3 bonus ones at the end which Ampli wanted me to draw so he could type some swedish text on his scroller in the next intro.

Btw, these three characters are in the places usually occupied by [ \ ]

If you would rather have those characters there, draw them yourself

Please credit Shockwave/S!P if you use the font Cheers.

I know now why I gave up gfxing.. it's too fiddly and takes ages

[Jim]

You drew it by hand?  It's a very nice font, and great work man.  Very generous to release it.

But why not just type it in to notepad and screengrab it or use a tool like
http://members.iinet.net.au/~jimshaw/Yabasic/makefont.zip?

Jim

[Shockwave]

Yes, the letters could have been ripped out in that way Jim Unfortunately they had to fit into 20 * 20 for the intro I am working on so I did my best at converting it Not all the letters are in the right proportion to the original font because some were very tall and some were very wide but it's pretty much there.

I will probably only use this once so it should be here for everyone who wants it

[Shockwave]

I just ran Makefont That's a really good tool!

[Singer]

     I love the font Shocky.   Now I know about the hair!     

[stormbringer]

I was looking at some of the fonts on my computer and there was one called Curls MT that really stood out.

Unfortunately it is a truetype font and because I wanted to use it I had to draw it.

So here it is after a long time and lots of hair pulling in fixed width format.

it is 20 * 20, most special characters are included, as are 3 bonus ones at the end which Ampli wanted me to draw so he could type some swedish text on his scroller in the next intro.

Btw, these three characters are in the places usually occupied by [ \ ]

If you would rather have those characters there, draw them yourself

Please credit Shockwave/S!P if you use the font Cheers.

I know now why I gave up gfxing.. it's too fiddly and takes ages

why don't you use FreeType? (http://www.freetype.org/)

nice & clean C lib that has in-memory rendering capabilities with high-quality anti-aliasing. It can render the bitmaps for you....

[Jim]

I'm a but puzzled - why would you use freetype under Windows?
Jim

[stormbringer]

the render engine's quality is far above GDI and GDI+... just try and compare results. Amazing

[Positron]

@Shockwave
Nice font. I like it.

[Shockwave]

why don't you use FreeType? (http://www.freetype.org/)

nice & clean C lib that has in-memory rendering capabilities with high-quality anti-aliasing. It can render the bitmaps for you....

I never knew it existed
Ah well, it doesn't hurt to have another font posted here though

[stormbringer]

and also has tons of nice features such as glyph's outline extraction (ideal for vector/3d text and the like)...

[Clyde]

Welldone on the Font Shockwave

[Yaloopy]

Sweet font, Nick.

[Jim]

I just ran Makefont  That's a really good tool!

Thanks!  It's pretty old now though.  The bitmap is laid out in a regular grid so you can use fixed width fonts.  If you want to do proportional spacing, the .bin file it generates contains the bounding boxes for each letter, 4x32bit longs for each letter with the x,y, width,height of the letters in pixels.  The things I want to add are 1) a colour picker for the background colour, and 2) user selectable bitmap width.

Jim