The Short Stack font seems to suit most of my purposes. (although the letter J does not have the horizontal stroke) Tim, you are my hero. I found it by googling "educational font". https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Short+Stack For those who are looking for a regular font for kids to copy and learn, have a look. Thanks, Tim. :) On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 18:31 +0800, Orange Paranoid wrote: >> editing a font seems a daunting task. I will see if I have the time. > > Way back in the dim and distant past, when all computers only did bitmap > fonts, I'd created my own fonts quite a few time. Mind you, this was at > dot matrix printer resolutions, so it wasn't too hard to do. And it was > how I learnt to convert between binary and hex, in my head, from all the > font programming. > >> My idea is that no font is right for me. How could that happen in the >> 21st century? My descriptions in the video are valid for the kids I >> have taught. > > I know what you mean. I find the same problems with most fonts, and > mostly want what you wanted in the font design. And, as I said before, > look at some programmer's fonts. They have I that you can easily tell > apart from l, t versus f, etc. You might have to look around a bit to > find one that doesn't give a slashed computer zero, though. > > Alternatively, have you tried just searching for educational font? Just > type it into google, and have a look. There'll be a free one, > somewhere. > > > -- > tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp > > Linux 3.16.2-201.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Sep 15 20:21:12 UTC 2014 i686 > > All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying > to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. > > George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not > a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
