school font
Joseph H. Rosevear
I need a font that looks like the way we learn printed (not cursive)
handwriting in school. The letters should be made of simple strokes
that are vertical or horizontal lines, circles or arcs.
I work as an aide in a special education class, and I'm trying to help
our kids learn some basic elements of language. I wrote software that
runs on a Linux box. The software shows pictures of things (using xv),
pronounces the word for the thing (using pre-recorded wav files), and
shows the written word for it also (by displaying a jpg file made by
xpaint). Our kids range in age from first to fourth grade, but because
of various disabilities they don't speak, understand or write at grade
level.
My software (called See-Hear-Read or shr) would be better if the words
it displayed were shown in a font that matched our handwriting
expectations. I looked through the fonts in my Slackware 10.2 version
of xpaint, but found none that meet my needs.
Do you know of a font that I can use in xpaint (and display 34 point
bold) that looks like what I described? (And how to install it?)
Or do you know how I can make my own font for xpaint?
-Joe
J.O. Aho
> I need a font that looks like the way we learn printed (not cursive)
> handwriting in school. The letters should be made of simple strokes
> that are vertical or horizontal lines, circles or arcs.
There are quite many sites that has fonts, just look for a ttf that looks like
you want it to look and copy the .ttf to the /usr/share/fonts directory where
you have other ttf files, restart the font server and you should have your font.
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//Aho
Bob Tennent
> Hello, Slackware people. And how are you this evening?
>
> I need a font that looks like the way we learn printed (not cursive)
> handwriting in school. The letters should be made of simple strokes
> that are vertical or horizontal lines, circles or arcs.
MS Comic Sans? It's one of the "core web fonts" that Microsoft allowed
to be distributed under some conditions. You can get them here:
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
See samples of Comic Sans here:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/comic-sans/
Bob T.
Sybren Stuvel
> I need a font that looks like the way we learn printed (not cursive)
> handwriting in school.
"We"? I think handwriting is learned in different ways in different
countries. You might want to be a little more specific.
Sybren
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Sybren Stüvel
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Joseph H. Rosevear
> --
> //Aho
Hello, J.O. I eventually succeeded in doing something like what
you suggested.
I found this site (below) that has fonts of the sort I was looking for:
http://desktoppub.about.com/od/fonts/p/schoolfree.htm
I found that if I copied a .ttf file to /usr/share/fonts, then I could
use the font in Kde's Kolourpaint. The only problem there was that
Kolorpaint has limited choices for point size... hmmm.
Alternately, I found that Kde has a tool to install fonts. I'm not
sure which way is better. At one point I got into trouble using Kde's
install--somehow I ended up with font config files in /etc that were
readable only by root. That made Kde unreadable until I found and
fixed the problem.
Thanks for you help.
-Joe
Joseph H. Rosevear
> http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/comic-sans/
> Bob T.
Hi, Bob.
Thanks for your help. Comic Sans was close, but not what I was looking
for. See my reply to J.O.
-Joe
Joseph H. Rosevear
> Hi Joe,
[snip]
> "We"? I think handwriting is learned in different ways in different
> countries. You might want to be a little more specific.
Hi, Sybren.
Yes, I suppose you're right. I was a bit sloppy in phrasing my
question.
While I was looking for fonts, I was surprised how much variation I
found. Only one, Ray Larabie's PrimerPrint, was suitable. Others had
oddly shaped characters. Often the "4", "e", "j", "t", or "q" were not
what I wanted. Much more common were the differences I found in the
"a" and "g".
I don't know what country "Ray Larabie" comes from, but his font was
nearly exactly what I wanted.
-Joe