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Post by Dr. Whammy on Apr 16, 2024 20:19:45 GMT -5
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Post by StimpyProductions on Apr 16, 2024 20:28:33 GMT -5
You’ve did your best, nobody’s perfect sometimes.
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Post by duke on Apr 16, 2024 22:24:48 GMT -5
Very nice!
What scale are these? Are you planning to eventually use these with an actual trilon board?
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Post by wheelfan1230 on Apr 17, 2024 8:31:11 GMT -5
How did you make these? I'd love to make those for a trilon board.
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Post by Dr. Whammy on Apr 17, 2024 18:24:27 GMT -5
Very nice! What scale are these? Are you planning to eventually use these with an actual trilon board? Thank you! The scale is 1:1…it is the same size as the original letters, 12x16. Here it is with a Sharpie for scale.  That's too big to make a board, but I might at some point make an actual trilon or two just for the heck of it. I made it with a plexiglass sheet and a Cricut. I got the sheet off of Amazon and, TBH, I'm not too happy with it as I think it's a little on the flimsy side. |
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Post by duke on Apr 17, 2024 21:15:02 GMT -5
made it with a plexiglass sheet and a Cricut. I got the sheet off of Amazon and, TBH, I'm not too happy with it as I think it's a little on the flimsy side. Well it looks awesome. The thickness of the plexi is probably fine. I'd wager a guess the show probably went as thin as possible to minimize the cost of needing a couple hundred square feet of plexi to have all the letter copies they needed. The trilon frames the plexiglass slid into to probably provided nearly all of the rigidity and support. |
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Post by wheelgenius on Apr 18, 2024 13:40:50 GMT -5
I can't see the pictures. What happened to them?
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Post by bobbingforapples on Apr 18, 2024 15:02:25 GMT -5
I can't see the pictures. What happened to them? They still appear for me, it might be your connection. |
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Post by wheelgenius on Apr 19, 2024 14:44:51 GMT -5
I can't see the pictures. What happened to them? They still appear for me, it might be your connection. They appear on my mobile device, but not on my laptop. |
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Post by Dr. Whammy on Apr 19, 2024 18:14:43 GMT -5
FWIW, I had to add lijit.com to my router's allow list for the images here to get through my ad blocker.
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Post by Dr. Whammy on Apr 21, 2024 16:11:54 GMT -5
Here's this weekend's efforts:  |
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Post by Dr. Whammy on May 9, 2024 20:36:49 GMT -5
And here's this week's batch:  As you've probably guessed, I'm picking letters randomly. |
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Post by MarioGS on May 10, 2024 12:33:28 GMT -5
These are impressive! Is there any chance of you sharing the digital vectors of the letters in the future?
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Post by Dr. Whammy on May 11, 2024 6:57:42 GMT -5
These are impressive! Is there any chance of you sharing the digital vectors of the letters in the future? Thanks. In regards to sharing the font itself, I’d be a bit nervous about doing that, as I’m not sure of the legalities of distributing a font I didn’t design myself. |
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Post by duke on May 11, 2024 12:00:57 GMT -5
I’m not sure of the legalities of distributing a font I didn’t design myself. I can possibly help to demystify font licensing a bit here, with the caveat that I am not a lawyer. My experience is from dealing with font licensing as a content creator.
The font file itself (.ttf, .otf or whatever) likely cannot be distributed unless you have a license from the creator that explicitly says it can be, especially if it is a font you paid for.
Embedding fonts is also usually a no-no (for example, in a web page or PDF or software program) unless you have a license explicitly saying otherwise.
If you have licensed a font for desktop content creation (or it is free for such purpose), then usually you may distribute things that you created using the font (for example, svg or png files), as long as the font logic is not embedded in or distributed with the content. Again, it all hinges on the license. I say usually here because sometimes there is separate commercial licensing that applies, and "free" fonts especially can have conditions attached on their use.
The distinction is that the font files themselves are considered programs, with logic that controls things like font weight, size, italics, kerning, etc.. On the other hand, a static rendering of text from a font is considered output from the font "program".
So the shortest possible answer is always check the license, and determine for your medium whether the desktop license is sufficient or whether you need an appropriate embedding or redistribution license instead.
So, if you have an .svg file containing a vector path of the rendered letter, you'll need to check the specific desktop content creation license for the font, but likely the license will say it is fine to distribute works created as long as you are licensed, especially if non-commercial in nature (and barring any other IP concerns). But if you are just directly embedding a font resource in a project, you'd probably not be able to distribute the project files, or at best, could only distribute them with a reference to a font file expected to be licensed and pre-installed on the recipient's machine.
Hope this helps. This is a very simplified view of a complicated subject. Again I'm not a lawyer and this is not professional advice, just friendly suggestions of signposts to follow/look for from someone who has had to navigate these waters a bit.
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Post by Dr. Whammy on May 15, 2024 18:41:03 GMT -5
Thanks, Duke.
Based on my admittedly limited understanding of the topic, it's down to a font file being the design of the letterforms vs. a piece of software, as you mentioned.
I created the font file using an editor, so, as far as the file itself goes, there's no license, but as I don't have a license for the design of the characters, that's what makes me leery to distribute the font as software.
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