A Free Typeface for Silverlight
When I was in architecture school at the University of Arizona, my first drawing teacher was Kirby Lockard. He taught me how to see, how to draw, and how to print, essential skills that an aspiring architect must master. Now that almost all architectural drawings today are created with computers, the skill of printing like an architect becomes less relevant. But for many architects, it's a skill that they won't let go of. I haven't either. When I was using a Tablet PC last year at Mindjet, I used the free Power Toy, the My Font Tool to create a TrueType typeface that portrayed one of the lettering styles that I learned 18 years ago.
Fast forward to what I'm doing now: demonstrating and talking about Silverlight. Silverlight comes with a great set of typefaces, Arial, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Lucida Sans Unicode, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and WebDings but one of the cool things that you can do with Silverlight is use your own TrueType fonts. To do this, you have to write a small bit of JavaScript:
function LoadFont(sender)
{
var plugin = sender.getHost();
var downloader = plugin.createObject("downloader");
downloader.addEventListener("Completed", OnFontLoaded);
downloader.open("GET", "Charette.ttf");
downloader.send();
}
function OnFontLoaded(sender, eventArgs)
{
var about = sender.findName("AboutCharette");
about.setFontSource(sender);
}
There's just one catch, you must abide by the license for the typeface and many typefaces licenses don't allow for that type of embedding. So here's my offer: Anyone who wants to can use this typeface free of charge on any Silverlight web site granted they include this text below either in HTML or as part of a Silverlight application: you can call it the Kirby Lockard Memorial License (KLML).
XAML:
<Canvas xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007" xmlns:x="https://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Width="437.6" Height="157.6" Background="#FF001FAB" x:Name="Page" >
<TextBlock FontFamily="Charette" FontSize="16" Width="429.8" Height="145.6" Canvas.Top="8" TextWrapping="Wrap" x:Name="AboutCharette" Canvas.Left="8" Foreground="#FFFFFFFF">
<Run FontWeight="Bold" Text="Charette Typeface" FontSize="18"/>
<LineBreak/>
<Run Text="Copyright (c) 2006 Michael S. Scherotter"/>
<LineBreak/>
<Run Text="This typeface is dedicated to Kirby Lockard, who taught me how to draw and print like an architect."/>
</TextBlock>
</Canvas>
HTML:
<div style="font-family: Sans-Serif">
<p style="font-weight: bold; font-size: larger">Charette Typeface
</p>
<p> Copyright (c) 2006 <a href="https://blogs.msdn.com/synergist" mce_href="https://blogs.msdn.com/synergist">Michael S. Scherotter</a> <br />
This typeface is dedicated to
<a href="https://www.architecture.arizona.edu/documents/Lockard_obituary.pdf" mce_href="https://www.architecture.arizona.edu/documents/Lockard_obituary.pdf"> Kirby Lockard</a>, who taught me how to draw and print like an architect.
</p>
</div>
Comments
Anonymous
September 19, 2007
The comment has been removedAnonymous
September 20, 2007
Nice timing, I just found Fil Fortes Sistr script yesterday (http://fortes.com/2007/09/17/introducing-sistr/) where he mentions the need for liberally licensed fonts. I like this font and plan to use it in the future.Anonymous
November 21, 2007
As you can see, I have been experimenting with posting video on my blog now that I have a HD Video CameraAnonymous
February 13, 2008
I love keeping journals . Until recently it has been a totally analog media (I've added photos from myAnonymous
February 14, 2008
Jesse Liberty takes a few shots at answering some SL2.0 questions, at least with things he's At LibertyAnonymous
May 20, 2008
The comment has been removedAnonymous
June 09, 2008
When I was in architecture school at the University of Arizona, my first drawing teacher was Kirby Lockard . He taught me how to see, how to draw, and how to print, essential skills that an aspiring architect must master. Now that almost all architectura