Hi,
Could someone work on 1 x 8 tiles from latest Architecture sets?
"San Francisco":
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...1#T=C&C=11
"Paris":
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...1#T=C&C=11
[color=#333333][size=small][size=small][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif][color=#333333][size=small][size=small][size=small][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]"[/size][/size][size=small][size=small]Trafalgar Square":[/size][/size][/font][/size][/size][/font][/size][/color][/color]
[color=#333333][color=#333333][size=small][size=small][size=small][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif][size=small][size=small][size=small][size=small][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...only%22:0}[/size][/size][/size][/font][/size][/size][/size][/font][/size][/color][/color]
[color=#333333][size=small][size=small][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]"[/size][size=small]Las Vegas"[/size][/font][/size][/color][color=#333333][size=small][size=small][size=small][size=small][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]:[/size][/size][/font][/size][/size][/color]
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...1#T=C&C=11
"Shanghai":
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...0#T=C&C=11
"Statue of Liberty":
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=166139#T=C&C=11
"Great Wall Of China":
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...6#T=C&C=11
and also its variant with Asian characters:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=166357#T=C&C=11
All are done now. Thanks to all authors!
Many thanks!
(2020-05-24, 17:04)N. W. Perry Wrote: [ -> ]The Chinese version remains to be done, is that so?
The glyphs are Simplified Chinese: 长城
The Mac system font is close but not a perfect match; I don't know if the open-source Zen Hei might be closer.
I tried to font match a while back but doing that with the font identifying websites was an exercise in futility.
(2020-05-24, 17:24)Orion Pobursky Wrote: [ -> ]I tried to font match a while back but doing that with the font identifying websites was an exercise in futility.
That's for sure. Easier would be to just modify the glyphs I have in Inkscape, but perhaps easier still is to use img4dat:
https://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.c...162p1l.dat
Hmm, the Chinese characters don't display correctly here—but they're fine when you go into the part details page:
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I wonder if that will be a problem? I noted one other official part with a Chinese character in its title, so I took it to be acceptable. Or is the issue on the website side?
(2020-05-26, 15:54)N. W. Perry Wrote: [ -> ]Hmm, the Chinese characters don't display correctly here—but they're fine when you go into the part details page:
I wonder if that will be a problem? I noted one other official part with a Chinese character in its title, so I took it to be acceptable. Or is the issue on the website side?
Which list is this? I checked the Parts List and the list generated by search and those both display correctly.
(2020-05-26, 16:14)Orion Pobursky Wrote: [ -> ]Which list is this? I checked the Parts List and the list generated by search and those both display correctly.
Hmm, you're right—it looks okay for me on the search list, as well as the Activity list. It only comes up this way on the My Submits list. If that's the only place it's a problem, I'm not sure I'd worry. :-)
(2020-05-26, 16:36)N. W. Perry Wrote: [ -> ]I'm not sure I'd worry. :-)
I am, but that's my job as website admin.
(2020-05-24, 17:04)N. W. Perry Wrote: [ -> ]The Chinese version remains to be done, is that so?
The glyphs are Simplified Chinese: 长城
The Mac system font is close but not a perfect match; I don't know if the open-source Zen Hei might be closer.
Glad to see Chinese Characters in LDraw
the font may be 'Adobe 繁黑體 Std B Bold'
good job.
(2020-05-27, 4:45)Yu Zhang Wrote: [ -> ]Glad to see Chinese Characters in LDraw
the font may be 'Adobe 繁黑體 Std B Bold'
good job.
Gosh, I think you're right! This looks like a perfect match to me—note the two key points (circled) that I couldn't find in any other font:
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An Adobe font does make sense, as they're likely using Adobe software to design these patterns. Of course I ended up just sampling the bitmap from a part photo, but this is good info in case we need to model more Chinese characters in the future!
(2019-06-24, 7:53)Vincent Messenet Wrote: [ -> ]All are done now. Thanks to all authors!
Many thanks!
Hooray! Should we apply the new "Complete" prefix, or leave it off in anticipation of next year's sets?
(2020-06-01, 0:45)N. W. Perry Wrote: [ -> ]Hooray! Should we apply the new "Complete" prefix, or leave it off in anticipation of next year's sets?
Ill mark. We won't have to do one for the White House and, as long as there isn't a non-Roman variant, I'll probably make them as they appear.
Heads up for 21057 "Singapore"!
(2021-12-03, 15:21)N. W. Perry Wrote: [ -> ]Heads up for 21057 "Singapore"!
I got. Took me forever to find the correct font but now that I have it doing these are easy.
(2021-12-03, 22:09)Orion Pobursky Wrote: [ -> ]I got. Took me forever to find the correct font but now that I have it doing these are easy.
...and that font is? Helvetica regular? (according to your Architecture tiles)
(2021-12-04, 10:47)Philippe Hurbain Wrote: [ -> ]...and that font is? Helvetica regular? (according to your Architecture tiles)
Swiss 720 BT. The non-bold flavor. It's what I've used for all the tiles I've authored (which is a small handful). All the others were done by others.
(2021-12-04, 14:06)Orion Pobursky Wrote: [ -> ]Swiss 720 BT. The non-bold flavor. It's what I've used for all the tiles I've authored (which is a small handful). All the others were done by others.
Don't forget to add a comment with the font's name.
w.
(2021-12-04, 14:06)Orion Pobursky Wrote: [ -> ]Swiss 720 BT. The non-bold flavor. It's what I've used for all the tiles I've authored (which is a small handful). All the others were done by others.
The Singapore tile looks to me like a different font than previous ones, at least in the official product images. But I could be wrong.
(2021-12-05, 3:30)N. W. Perry Wrote: [ -> ]The Singapore tile looks to me like a different font than previous ones, at least in the official product images. But I could be wrong.
Hmm. Will have to wait until release then and compare.
(2021-12-05, 5:42)Orion Pobursky Wrote: [ -> ]Hmm. Will have to wait until release then and compare.
Just realized we don't have this one yet. I'll get to it shortly (if nobody else does).
(2022-04-04, 21:43)N. W. Perry Wrote: [ -> ]Just realized we don't have this one yet. I'll get to it shortly (if nobody else does).
I've had this set, unopened, for a bit. Since I have the correct font on my computer, I'll have a look
I was just looking at this, too. The font appears to be
Cera Pro. Also seems to be the same for the Taj Mahal (the lowercase a's are a dead giveaway).
(2022-04-05, 2:41)N. W. Perry Wrote: [ -> ]I was just looking at this, too. The font appears to be Cera Pro. Also seems to be the same for the Taj Mahal (the lowercase a's are a dead giveaway).
It should be Swiss 720 BT. The Bold variant (i.e. Swiss 720 BT Bold) is a very common font used by LEGO but for some reason they went with non-bold here.
The is one tile we don't have: Billund Airport. Not formally part of Architecture but packaged the same.
(2022-04-05, 2:48)Orion Pobursky Wrote: [ -> ]It should be Swiss 720 BT. The Bold variant (i.e. Swiss 720 BT Bold) is a very common font used by LEGO but for some reason they went with non-bold here.
Should be, but ain't. Biggest clues are the rounded dot on i/j, flattened bowl on the a, and the capital M that doesn't go all the way to the floor.
Closest match I could find, anyway.
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EDIT: Now I look closer, it is indeed a different font than Sydney—look at the ends of the 'S'. So Sydney and most earlier tiles probably are the Swiss 720 font.
Singapore is done.
(2021-12-04, 16:09)Willy Tschager Wrote: [ -> ]Don't forget to add a comment with the font's name.
w.
Added one. Font is a perfect—and I mean
perfect—match. In Inkscape at 100x800 pixels, I dropped in the text at 48pt size, centered it, and literally had to do nothing else. No kerning, no re-shaping of any glyphs, nada. That's actually never happened before.
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(2022-04-07, 5:09)N. W. Perry Wrote: [ -> ]Singapore is done.
Added one. Font is a perfect—and I mean perfect—match. In Inkscape at 100x800 pixels, I dropped in the text at 48pt size, centered it, and literally had to do nothing else. No kerning, no re-shaping of any glyphs, nada. That's actually never happened before.
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Awesome. Now we need to figure out Billund Airport. I can provide a photo if needed.
(2022-04-07, 5:23)Orion Pobursky Wrote: [ -> ]Awesome. Now we need to figure out Billund Airport. I can provide a photo if needed.
Closest matches:
https://www.whatfontis.com/NFC_FF-Jigger...gular.font
https://www.whatfontis.com/NFC_PF-Isotext-Regular.font
The 'p' is wrong on the first one, the 't' is wrong on the second. Easy to clip off the 't' in that case.
Isotext is based on ISO 3098 standard, this may have been an embedded font in their AutoCad or other software.
On my end the question is mainly academic as I can't directly convert text to dat. I go via Inkscape to make a high-quality SVG so that I can downsample it to a low-quality bitmap for img4dat. But I'm thinking it might be easier at this point to skip that step and just digitize directly in LDPE. (Maybe just use img4dat to make regular circle arcs and the like…)
(2022-04-07, 15:47)N. W. Perry Wrote: [ -> ]Closest matches:
https://www.whatfontis.com/NFC_FF-Jigger...gular.font
https://www.whatfontis.com/NFC_PF-Isotext-Regular.font
The 'p' is wrong on the first one, the 't' is wrong on the second. Easy to clip off the 't' in that case.
Isotext is based on ISO 3098 standard, this may have been an embedded font in their AutoCad or other software.
On my end the question is mainly academic as I can't directly convert text to dat. I go via Inkscape to make a high-quality SVG so that I can downsample it to a low-quality bitmap for img4dat. But I'm thinking it might be easier at this point to skip that step and just digitize directly in LDPE. (Maybe just use img4dat to make regular circle arcs and the like…)
txt2dat doesn't work under WINE? That kind of surprises me.
(2022-04-07, 15:53)Orion Pobursky Wrote: [ -> ]txt2dat doesn't work under WINE? That kind of surprises me.
That, or I haven't yet learned how to install it. Actually there is a Mac package for it, but the app isn't built (and the instructions kind of start a few steps in). :-)
Just when we got caught up, heads up for
21058 - The Great Pyramid of Giza.
From the official photos, this appears to be the same font (Cera Pro) as 21056 and 21057. I'll whip it up at some point, unless someone expects to have a better opportunity to do so…
(2022-05-11, 2:47)Orion Pobursky Wrote: [ -> ]You have the font, I don't. Go for it.
Also,
https://www.brothers-brick.com/2022/05/1...review-13/
Well that adds a wrinkle, doesn't it.
There are also so leafy parts I don't recognize, not sure if they're actually new though. We'll find out by August if any more new parts are needed, I guess!
Is there any font that can write hieroglyphs?
(2022-05-11, 15:36)Magnus Forsberg Wrote: [ -> ]Is there any font that can write hieroglyphs?
There are but tracking down the exact one, assuming they even used one, is going to be lots for work for little reward.
(2022-05-11, 15:42)Orion Pobursky Wrote: [ -> ]There are but tracking down the exact one, assuming they even used one, is going to be lots for work for little reward.
Y'know, I wasn't sure I'd find the font for the Chinese characters either, and then…
(2022-05-11, 17:27)N. W. Perry Wrote: [ -> ]Y'know, I wasn't sure I'd find the font for the Chinese characters either, and then…
Well your sleuthiness is better than mine since I look for quite a while for that font. I suspect, however, that they may not have used a font for this tile.
(2022-05-11, 17:32)Orion Pobursky Wrote: [ -> ]Well your sleuthiness is better than mine since I look for quite a while for that font. I suspect, however, that they may not have used a font for this tile.
Yeah, from what I can tell their glyphs are derived from the original Gardiner text—though possibly indirectly through some PNG or Unicode repository. But Wikipedia has already done the work of extracting the symbols, and that's probably as simple a starting point as I'll find.
(2022-05-11, 15:36)Magnus Forsberg Wrote: [ -> ]Is there any font that can write hieroglyphs?
Good luck finding the font, but this might be the characters:
𓐍𓅱𓆑𓅱 𓅞𓇿𓏏𓉴
Note: I omitted special Unicode control characters to start and end the cartouche, and to put the half-circle under the pill. I couldn't find a program that respected those characters, and Google Chrome doesn't.
(2022-05-11, 20:53)Travis Cobbs Wrote: [ -> ]Good luck finding the font, but this might be the characters:
𓐍𓅱𓆑𓅱 𓅞𓇿𓏏𓉴
Note: I omitted special Unicode control characters to start and end the cartouche, and to put the half-circle under the pill. I couldn't find a program that respected those characters, and Google Chrome doesn't.
I'm finally starting work on these. Good news is, the same hieroglyphs are printed in the instruction manual, so I can just take those vectors straight out of the PDF.
Since img4dat tends to require per-vertex revision anyway, at least with highly geometric patterns, I decided to skip it and go straight into LDPE for digitizing the hieroglyphs.
I've built some constructors using type 2 lines and curved prims where possible; the rest will be hand-triangulated (the birds and horned viper).
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