timo ronkainen wrote:
> Klaus Harms wrote:
>
>> we even keep the letter "?" from...
>
> This "double s" seems to be included, but as "SS". And this is font
> made by German... What on...?? ;-)
> Well there is also upside down "?" for Spanish.
At least in old Swedish "SS" is the capital form of "?."
Stefan
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Topic: 200301
(268 messages)
Stefan Persson
Carl Barks Script Font
Message 136 -
2003-01-18 at 14:35:52
Dan Shane
Fuming over Fonts
Message 137 -
2003-01-18 at 15:14:04
SIGVALD FUSSES:
> And let me say the following to you all:
> As long ago as in the 1980's I made my own
> fonts for my Commodore 64. By then I always
> included the A, O and U with dots over them.
> And I am pretty sure that if Danish Donaldist
> Society will ever create it's own font, that
> one will include the A, O and U with dots over
> them as well.
>
> So please let us all be constructive here.
AND I CHIME IN:
Sounds like it is time for you to dust off your old C-64 and get
constructive again, eh?
> And let me say the following to you all:
> As long ago as in the 1980's I made my own
> fonts for my Commodore 64. By then I always
> included the A, O and U with dots over them.
> And I am pretty sure that if Danish Donaldist
> Society will ever create it's own font, that
> one will include the A, O and U with dots over
> them as well.
>
> So please let us all be constructive here.
AND I CHIME IN:
Sounds like it is time for you to dust off your old C-64 and get
constructive again, eh?
Sigvald Grøsfjeld Jr.
Fuming over Fonts
Message 138 -
2003-01-19 at 00:04:39
DAN SHANE:
> Sounds like it is time for you to dust off
> your old C-64 and get constructive again, eh?
Due to a disk drive failure I unfortunately
can't use it much any more. Anyway designing
fonts on a C-64 won't fix this matter anyway.
Sigvald :-)
> Sounds like it is time for you to dust off
> your old C-64 and get constructive again, eh?
Due to a disk drive failure I unfortunately
can't use it much any more. Anyway designing
fonts on a C-64 won't fix this matter anyway.
Sigvald :-)
Gary Pantzer
Don Rosa in Boston
Message 139 -
2003-01-19 at 03:39:23
I heard from at least one person who did not see my first
post about the Boston show, so I mention it again here as
a reminder for any fans who may want to attend.
Don Rosa will be at a comic book show in Boston
on Sunday - Feb.23,2003 at the Radisson Hotel.
Craig Rousseau of DC comics will also be a guest.
Admission is $5 and the show runs 10am to 4pm.
Early preview is $10 if you want to get in at
8:30am but I do not know if Don will be available
at that time. On a previous appearance in Boston
he used the early hours to search for missing
titles for his own collection.
Use the following url for more details, but be aware
that it loads very slowly:
http://www.monkeyhouse-entertainment.com/shows.htm
Also on this site is a coupon for $1 off the admission and an
update of scheduled guests.
Gary Pantzer
Oneida, New York
post about the Boston show, so I mention it again here as
a reminder for any fans who may want to attend.
Don Rosa will be at a comic book show in Boston
on Sunday - Feb.23,2003 at the Radisson Hotel.
Craig Rousseau of DC comics will also be a guest.
Admission is $5 and the show runs 10am to 4pm.
Early preview is $10 if you want to get in at
8:30am but I do not know if Don will be available
at that time. On a previous appearance in Boston
he used the early hours to search for missing
titles for his own collection.
Use the following url for more details, but be aware
that it loads very slowly:
http://www.monkeyhouse-entertainment.com/shows.htm
Also on this site is a coupon for $1 off the admission and an
update of scheduled guests.
Gary Pantzer
Oneida, New York
H.W.Fluks
Sigvald: Barks font without Danish/Norwegian special characters
Message 140 -
2003-01-19 at 18:39:13
Sigvald:
> > The font does not include special Luxembourgish
> > characters as well
>
> Does such exist? AFAIK Dutch/Flemmish only uses
> the standard 26 letter alfabet (I guess Harry
> Fluks can confirm this).
Dutch also use a ligature for ij, and sometimes for oe in French words. And
we use ? in (mostly) French words.
But these are not separate characters in our alphabet (except the
ij-ligature which is often wrongly mixed with the y character).
But what does Dutch (or Flemish) have to do with Luxembourgish? Nothing!
--Harry.
> > The font does not include special Luxembourgish
> > characters as well
>
> Does such exist? AFAIK Dutch/Flemmish only uses
> the standard 26 letter alfabet (I guess Harry
> Fluks can confirm this).
Dutch also use a ligature for ij, and sometimes for oe in French words. And
we use ? in (mostly) French words.
But these are not separate characters in our alphabet (except the
ij-ligature which is often wrongly mixed with the y character).
But what does Dutch (or Flemish) have to do with Luxembourgish? Nothing!
--Harry.
Gary Pantzer
Don Rosa in Italy
Message 141 -
2003-01-19 at 19:21:06
I just posted a reminder about Don Rosa appearing in Boston, but
I should also mention again the following:
For all our friends across the Big Pond, Don will be in Naples,Italy
on March 7-9,2003. Luca Boschi may be able to provide details
on this show and directions.
Gary Pantzer
Oneida, NY
I should also mention again the following:
For all our friends across the Big Pond, Don will be in Naples,Italy
on March 7-9,2003. Luca Boschi may be able to provide details
on this show and directions.
Gary Pantzer
Oneida, NY
Fernando Ventura
Disney-Lantz Crossover!
Message 142 -
2003-01-20 at 06:58:47
Hello people!
Can you imagine what can happen in an crossover between this two crazy birds
from the 40's?
http://www.inducks.hpg.com.br/portfolio/PicaPau_Aracua.jpg
Fernando! :-))
Can you imagine what can happen in an crossover between this two crazy birds
from the 40's?
http://www.inducks.hpg.com.br/portfolio/PicaPau_Aracua.jpg
Fernando! :-))
Kriton Kyrimis
Disney-Lantz Crossover!
Message 143 -
2003-01-20 at 11:06:04
FERNANDO:
> Can you imagine what can happen in an crossover between this two crazy
> birds from the 40's?
>
> http://www.inducks.hpg.com.br/portfolio/PicaPau_Aracua.jpg
No (I am not familiar with the bird on the right), but I can imagine what
would happen if Woody Woodpecker ever crossed paths with Taliaferro's
Donald!
Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
-----
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to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
-----
> Can you imagine what can happen in an crossover between this two crazy
> birds from the 40's?
>
> http://www.inducks.hpg.com.br/portfolio/PicaPau_Aracua.jpg
No (I am not familiar with the bird on the right), but I can imagine what
would happen if Woody Woodpecker ever crossed paths with Taliaferro's
Donald!
Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
-----
"There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how
to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
-----
Gerd Syllwasschy
Barks font without Danish/Norwegian special characters
Message 144 -
2003-01-20 at 11:09:01
I wonder why this subject raises so much fuss. To clarify things: the
Barks font offered for download at the D.O.N.A.L.D. site is not an
official project of "the" German Donaldists. It was designed by *one*
German Donaldist for his own private use who later kindly decided to
make it available publicly. As for the missing international characters,
either he had no use for them or he didn't have the time to integrate
them. No need to accuse him of chauvinism.
(It is an interesting fact, by the way, that this font was mainly based
on Barks' lettering for The Pixilated Parrot - this probably being the
only Barks story which includes all ten digits.)
Anyway, this font is some 15 to 20 years old and technically outdated.
So it might be an interesting project for the typographic experts among
us to design a wholly new Barks font from scratch. This time including
even Icelandic special characters, of course.
Gerd
Barks font offered for download at the D.O.N.A.L.D. site is not an
official project of "the" German Donaldists. It was designed by *one*
German Donaldist for his own private use who later kindly decided to
make it available publicly. As for the missing international characters,
either he had no use for them or he didn't have the time to integrate
them. No need to accuse him of chauvinism.
(It is an interesting fact, by the way, that this font was mainly based
on Barks' lettering for The Pixilated Parrot - this probably being the
only Barks story which includes all ten digits.)
Anyway, this font is some 15 to 20 years old and technically outdated.
So it might be an interesting project for the typographic experts among
us to design a wholly new Barks font from scratch. This time including
even Icelandic special characters, of course.
Gerd
Kriton Kyrimis
Barks font without Danish/Norwegian special characters
Message 145 -
2003-01-20 at 11:39:05
SIGVALD:
> > Greek, Cyrillic and more country
> > specific characters.
>
> These are complete diffirent alfabets and
> is *not* a topic here.
Um, *why*?
> Once again - mentioning Greece and Russia here
> is *not* correct - this is a discussion about
> the LATIN alfabet only.
Again, *why*? If you feel offended or neglected, because the designers of
the Barks font neglected to support your alphabet, how should I feel, when
you specifically exclude my alphabet when you discuss extending the font?
BTW, the Barks font contains more characters than those required to
render Latin, even if you remove the letters with diacritical marks!
You probably wanted to say something like "Western European".
While on the topic of this font, was it made by digitizing letters
from Barks' comics? If so, then any letters with diacritical marks
in the font are probably extrapolations, as I doubt if Barks used
such letters. Perhaps he, too, was a little bit chauvinistic or not
informed. :-)
Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
-----
"When you travel around as much as *I* do, it's almost inevitable that you'll
run into yourself at some point!"
-----
> > Greek, Cyrillic and more country
> > specific characters.
>
> These are complete diffirent alfabets and
> is *not* a topic here.
Um, *why*?
> Once again - mentioning Greece and Russia here
> is *not* correct - this is a discussion about
> the LATIN alfabet only.
Again, *why*? If you feel offended or neglected, because the designers of
the Barks font neglected to support your alphabet, how should I feel, when
you specifically exclude my alphabet when you discuss extending the font?
BTW, the Barks font contains more characters than those required to
render Latin, even if you remove the letters with diacritical marks!
You probably wanted to say something like "Western European".
While on the topic of this font, was it made by digitizing letters
from Barks' comics? If so, then any letters with diacritical marks
in the font are probably extrapolations, as I doubt if Barks used
such letters. Perhaps he, too, was a little bit chauvinistic or not
informed. :-)
Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
-----
"When you travel around as much as *I* do, it's almost inevitable that you'll
run into yourself at some point!"
-----
Timo Ronkainen
Barks font without Danish/Norwegian special characters
Message 146 -
2003-01-20 at 12:14:30
>So it might be an interesting project for the typographic experts among
>us to design a wholly new Barks font from scratch. This time including
>even Icelandic special characters, of course.
I'm not an expert, but have done few fonts. Anyway, whoever would do the
font he/she has to make many special characters out of the blue, since Barks
(obviously) never used them in his comics. With some reconstructing it might
be possible.
Anyway, Carl Barks Script font we are discussing about is pretty nice one.
Usually hundreds of free fonts we can download from internet doesn't have
even those umlaut "A" or "O"'s (with those dots on top of them).
Timo
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>us to design a wholly new Barks font from scratch. This time including
>even Icelandic special characters, of course.
I'm not an expert, but have done few fonts. Anyway, whoever would do the
font he/she has to make many special characters out of the blue, since Barks
(obviously) never used them in his comics. With some reconstructing it might
be possible.
Anyway, Carl Barks Script font we are discussing about is pretty nice one.
Usually hundreds of free fonts we can download from internet doesn't have
even those umlaut "A" or "O"'s (with those dots on top of them).
Timo
^^''*''^^
Cartoonist - writer - donaldist -
Timo Ronkainen ---------------- -
YO-kylä 52 A 26 --------------- -
20540 Turku ------------------- -
Finland ----------------------- -
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http://www.geocities.com/timoro2/
¨¨ Ankkalinnan Pamaus:
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Kriton Kyrimis
Barks font without Danish/Norwegian special characters
Message 147 -
2003-01-20 at 12:48:25
TIMO:
> Anyway, whoever would do the
> font he/she has to make many special characters out of the blue, since
> Barks (obviously) never used them in his comics. With some reconstructing
> it might be possible.
Since hand-lettering is limited to capital letters, in most cases it
should be a matter of tweaking or combining existing letters. This
is largely true even for the more "exotic" alphabets, such as
Greek. (Trivial example: F can be turned into a gamma by erasing the
second line. Non-trivial example: Omega, where you can start with an O,
but then you have to improvise--though not much: a hand-written capital
omega is just a circle with a line underneath!) Back in my Amiga days,
this is how I had produced Greek versions of the fonts that I used
most frequently.
Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
-----
"A minute without you is like sixty standardized seconds."
-----
> Anyway, whoever would do the
> font he/she has to make many special characters out of the blue, since
> Barks (obviously) never used them in his comics. With some reconstructing
> it might be possible.
Since hand-lettering is limited to capital letters, in most cases it
should be a matter of tweaking or combining existing letters. This
is largely true even for the more "exotic" alphabets, such as
Greek. (Trivial example: F can be turned into a gamma by erasing the
second line. Non-trivial example: Omega, where you can start with an O,
but then you have to improvise--though not much: a hand-written capital
omega is just a circle with a line underneath!) Back in my Amiga days,
this is how I had produced Greek versions of the fonts that I used
most frequently.
Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
-----
"A minute without you is like sixty standardized seconds."
-----
Gerstein, David DK - ECN
Barks font without Danish/Norwegian special characters
Message 148 -
2003-01-20 at 13:54:25
Hey, everyone...
I've got a Barks font made for Macintosh called "Plain Awful". I
designed it myself years ago, using "Lost in the Andes" as my source, and
used it to letter my Mickey and Gyro stories in Gladstone's WDC&S 616 and US
314. It has various Scandinavian and German special characters.
Nevertheless, I'm not totally satisfied with it and would like to upgrade it
sometime.
If anyone with a Mac would like it as it stands now, e-mail me and
you can have it.
David Gerstein
I've got a Barks font made for Macintosh called "Plain Awful". I
designed it myself years ago, using "Lost in the Andes" as my source, and
used it to letter my Mickey and Gyro stories in Gladstone's WDC&S 616 and US
314. It has various Scandinavian and German special characters.
Nevertheless, I'm not totally satisfied with it and would like to upgrade it
sometime.
If anyone with a Mac would like it as it stands now, e-mail me and
you can have it.
David Gerstein
Fernando Ventura
The bird on the right...
Message 149 -
2003-01-20 at 17:02:35
...is the Aracuan Bird! From "The Three Caballeros" (1945), "Clown of the
Jungle"(1947) and "Melody Time" (1948), he also appear in more or less 100
brazilian stories, as a member of the "Disney Teen"! He's know as Foli?o in
Brazil. Oh, and I have saw him in the "Mickey Mouse Works" and "House of
Mouse" shows too! ;-)
I presume most of you had watched "The Three Caballeros" after reading Don's
"The Three Caballeros Rides Again"!
Fernando! ;-)
(I really like crazy birds!)
Jungle"(1947) and "Melody Time" (1948), he also appear in more or less 100
brazilian stories, as a member of the "Disney Teen"! He's know as Foli?o in
Brazil. Oh, and I have saw him in the "Mickey Mouse Works" and "House of
Mouse" shows too! ;-)
I presume most of you had watched "The Three Caballeros" after reading Don's
"The Three Caballeros Rides Again"!
Fernando! ;-)
(I really like crazy birds!)
Michael Schartau
The bird on the right...
Message 150 -
2003-01-20 at 17:26:39
He is also an important part of the Swedish Christmas traditions.
Every Christmas Eve at 15:00 there is a special Disney show inkluding "Clown
of the jungle" on the TV. The same show every Christmas. And this is an
importand tradition for most (grown up) people in Sweden. Cristmas Eve is
the most important day in the Christmas celebration familyvise. Familydinner
at 13:00, Disney show at 15:00 and then the gifts.
/ Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fernando Ventura" <fernandopventura at uol.com.br>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>; "Olaf Solstrand" <olaf at andebyonline.com>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 4:02 PM
Subject: The bird on the right...
> ...is the Aracuan Bird! From "The Three Caballeros" (1945), "Clown of the
> Jungle"(1947) and "Melody Time" (1948), he also appear in more or less 100
> brazilian stories, as a member of the "Disney Teen"! He's know as Foli?o
in
> Brazil. Oh, and I have saw him in the "Mickey Mouse Works" and "House of
> Mouse" shows too! ;-)
>
> I presume most of you had watched "The Three Caballeros" after reading
Don's
> "The Three Caballeros Rides Again"!
>
> Fernando! ;-)
> (I really like crazy birds!)
>
> _______________________________________________
> http://stp.ling.uu.se/mailman/listinfo/dcml
Every Christmas Eve at 15:00 there is a special Disney show inkluding "Clown
of the jungle" on the TV. The same show every Christmas. And this is an
importand tradition for most (grown up) people in Sweden. Cristmas Eve is
the most important day in the Christmas celebration familyvise. Familydinner
at 13:00, Disney show at 15:00 and then the gifts.
/ Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fernando Ventura" <fernandopventura at uol.com.br>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>; "Olaf Solstrand" <olaf at andebyonline.com>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 4:02 PM
Subject: The bird on the right...
> ...is the Aracuan Bird! From "The Three Caballeros" (1945), "Clown of the
> Jungle"(1947) and "Melody Time" (1948), he also appear in more or less 100
> brazilian stories, as a member of the "Disney Teen"! He's know as Foli?o
in
> Brazil. Oh, and I have saw him in the "Mickey Mouse Works" and "House of
> Mouse" shows too! ;-)
>
> I presume most of you had watched "The Three Caballeros" after reading
Don's
> "The Three Caballeros Rides Again"!
>
> Fernando! ;-)
> (I really like crazy birds!)
>
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