Ah, I've clearly misunderstood what this is for. Though it would certainly be great to increase the weight of a font without having to adjust the outline, for example. Our engravers will be quite happy. :)
-C
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 09:38 +0100, C R wrote:
Jabier and I were talking about this. This is particularly good for fonts that look hand-written already. Adding slight variation means that you can type without having to write, and have it still appear as if it was written by hand. No, it's probably not useful for all fonts, but I don't think that should stop implementation. I'd love to see this feature come to Inkscape, and I know it would be a big selling point for commercial graphics folks, especially considering the proliferation of hand-written type in commercial graphics. Everyone wants that home-made, hand-crafted (whatever) look. This is exactly that.
I don't see how this helps with "hand-written" fonts. The variations (weight, slant) are applied uniformly to all glyphs unless you explicitly apply them letter-by-letter. If you want to make something look more handwritten, apply a filter that uses the displacement map filter using the turbulence filter as input. See the bottom of:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1451
Tav
Thanks for all your work! -C