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Title: Introducing Open Cherry, a free, open-source font based on the Cherry legends
Post by: booth on Tue, 07 January 2020, 04:00:50

Here's the link to the github repo: https://github.com/dakotafelder/open-cherry

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Title: Re: Introducing Open Cherry, a free, open-source font based on the Cherry legends
Post by: Photekq on Tue, 07 January 2020, 04:47:41

This is great work. I haven't compared to macros but it looks bang on. What was your process for creating these? Top-down photos then manual trace, or something else?

Title: Re: Introducing Open Cherry, a free, open-source font based on the Cherry legends
Post by: booth on Tue, 07 January 2020, 06:59:31

Quote from: Photekq on Tue, 07 January 2020, 04:47:41

This is great work. I haven't compared to macros but it looks bang on. What was your process for creating these? Top-down photos then manual trace, or something else?

Yeah that's exactly it. I used the macro shots from the Deskthority wiki as reference.

Title: Re: Introducing Open Cherry, a free, open-source font based on the Cherry legends
Post by: OtherBarry1992 on Thu, 09 January 2020, 08:32:23

Excellent work!

Title: Re: Introducing Open Cherry, a free, open-source font based on the Cherry legends
Post by: tex_live_utility on Thu, 09 January 2020, 16:03:59

Looks really nice! Are the lines in the "A" meant to be thinner than all the others? Or are they not actually thinner and it's just an optical illusion? It certainly looks thin compared to "X" for example.

Title: Re: Introducing Open Cherry, a free, open-source font based on the Cherry legends
Post by: jacethesaltsculptor on Thu, 09 January 2020, 19:35:32

I love this font, I'm going to use it on Keyboard and Linux posters.  :D

Title: Re: Introducing Open Cherry, a free, open-source font based on the Cherry legends
Post by: phedd on Thu, 16 January 2020, 09:03:23

What's wrong with just using Helvetica Rounded LT STD as Cherry does? Yeah, it get's some artifacts due to the double shot process but... not to this extent.

edit: great work however.. if you did it from scratch. I would just have made some minor modifications to the original font.

Title: Re: Introducing Open Cherry, a free, open-source font based on the Cherry legends
Post by: mountainblocks on Thu, 16 January 2020, 09:16:38

This is a really useful resource. Thanks for putting in the work and releasing it to the public!

Title: Re: Introducing Open Cherry, a free, open-source font based on the Cherry legends
Post by: futurecrime on Thu, 30 January 2020, 16:41:01

This is great. Thanks much!

Title: Re: Introducing Open Cherry, a free, open-source font based on the Cherry legends
Post by: LightningXI on Thu, 30 January 2020, 16:41:15

This is really fantastic. Do you plan on also adding the Cherry icons?

So for Tab, Caps Lock (Purse, Down Arrow), Shift, Enter, Backspace (2u and 1.5u -- no x-box please...), Numpad Enter, ISO Enter.

Title: Re: Introducing Open Cherry, a free, open-source font based on the Cherry legends
Post by: siijunn on Fri, 31 January 2020, 17:47:12

The idea of "open source" fonts was such a bizarre concept to me, but my brain fart moment was over.

This looks great.

Title: Re: Introducing Open Cherry, a free, open-source font based on the Cherry legends
Post by: Sintpinty on Sun, 02 February 2020, 10:30:21

Nice