I have started working on patterns using the Cera Pro font with Medium style now commonly used by Lego and I was planning to create the characters as new primitives using txt2dat and following recommendations discussed above.
However I have further questions/points requiring consensus
1. Where should be the origin of such primitives? I don't like the origin from the current type-swiss721bt-bold prims. From my point of view the origin should be set on the vertex where:
x = 0 = x from the leftmost vertex
y = 0
z = 0 = the baseline of the font
2. How should we name the files? I started with few characters with following suggestion, having one file with the character surfaces (inside) and one file with the outside:
Lowercase e: font-cera-medium-lc-ei.dat + font-cera-medium-lc-eo.dat
Uppercase e: font-cera-medium-uc-ei.dat + font-cera-medium-uc-eo.dat
8: type-cera-medium-8i.dat + type-cera-medium-8o.dat
Copyright: font-cera-medium-copyrighti.dat + font-cera-medium-copyrighto.dat
3. What should be the dimensions of these prims? For now I produced them using Txt2Dat available in LDPE using following parameters:
Mode: Characters only, without background
Flatness: 0.2
Margin Percentage: 1.0
Font Height: 100 LDU
And then I kept them as is
Attaching samples, Please, let me know your thoughts
However I have further questions/points requiring consensus
1. Where should be the origin of such primitives? I don't like the origin from the current type-swiss721bt-bold prims. From my point of view the origin should be set on the vertex where:
x = 0 = x from the leftmost vertex
y = 0
z = 0 = the baseline of the font
2. How should we name the files? I started with few characters with following suggestion, having one file with the character surfaces (inside) and one file with the outside:
Lowercase e: font-cera-medium-lc-ei.dat + font-cera-medium-lc-eo.dat
Uppercase e: font-cera-medium-uc-ei.dat + font-cera-medium-uc-eo.dat
8: type-cera-medium-8i.dat + type-cera-medium-8o.dat
Copyright: font-cera-medium-copyrighti.dat + font-cera-medium-copyrighto.dat
3. What should be the dimensions of these prims? For now I produced them using Txt2Dat available in LDPE using following parameters:
Mode: Characters only, without background
Flatness: 0.2
Margin Percentage: 1.0
Font Height: 100 LDU
And then I kept them as is
Attaching samples, Please, let me know your thoughts