Man On A Street

[Note: This was originally posted as a Facebook Note on  December 24, 2014 at 12:44pm . I lost several images on old tutorials in the Facebook Note format – maybe because images get moved around. I'm recreating them here. Although the software examples are outdated, the principles used can still apply with newer software.] “Maayo” is the first half of the Cebuano Bisaya greeting of “Maayo’ng Pasko”, literally “Good Christmas” but some of you might prefer Happy Hanukkah, Diwali, Eid al-Adha or a simple well-wishing so I kept it open-ended. “Maayo” – good, happy, best, something something – as long as it makes you well. The “birds” are the Baybayin syllable characters for Ma+A+Yo. The Baybayin was supposed to be generic calligraphic pen writing (I think I’ll get a cheap graphics tablet next year) but then I noticed they look like birds so I ended up with bird forms. Step 1: Set up page When you fire up Inkscape , the default document size is US Letter Size. I decided to go ...

[Blogger] I didn't set out to do Baybayin fonts in the first place but one thing led to another so . . . Here they are so far (shapes done in Inkscape and assembled in Fontforge ): Note: the newer ones do not follow the Lopez cross virama but the 'J' shaped 'pamudpod' introduced by Antoon Postma and adapted by the Mangyan Hanunoo. I also use the Bikol 'Ra' and—purists may cringe—I use extra kudlit on the newer fonts to indicate 'i' and 'u' from 'e' and 'o.' Traditionally, the double kudlit was used to double the e/i or o/u syllable. Baybayin Electric (download from this link ): Originally aiming for a more 'runic' feel that's easy to read in small sizes. Ended up with this: Baybayin Electric Monospace version (download from this link ): Baybayin Hilig (download from this link ): "Hilig," in Tagalog, means "passion, favorite thing/activity;" in Bisaya it means "slanting, oblique, ...