I'm looking to recreate the old angular font featured in EAGLE/CADsoft. I downloaded a trial of EAGLE FUSION 360 and it didn't have it (or I somehow couldn't access it).
I'd like to create what was in EAGLE as actual usable TTF or opentype font. Want to use it in some design/art projects.
It is a nice font. If you're just looking for any vector line font that was used in the past, then 'Herschey Simplex' may be worth digging up, since that's already in digital formats, whereas the EAGLE one is possibly proprietary and not documented. Herschey Simplex does not look alike however, it uses more curve-like shapes (still straight lines when zoomed in), whereas EAGLE's font embraces straight lines and octagon-like shapes for traditionally curved characters.
Anyway, if you're set on EAGLE, then the two images below can be clicked on to enlarge (and to undistort them because this site sometimes renders my screenshots squashed, unless clicked on), then right-click to save in high-res, in a .png format. One set is on a grid, and the other has a blank background. (looks like we were doing it at the same time dougw ). I did it in the normal pen thickness, and a thinner pen, in case you're trying to get the line segment position values more precisely for recreating the font.
For the ones on the grid, there are 10 grid lines for the capital letter height, so you can approximately obtain line length proportions quickly.
It is a nice font. If you're just looking for any vector line font that was used in the past, then 'Herschey Simplex' may be worth digging up, since that's already in digital formats, whereas the EAGLE one is possibly proprietary and not documented. Herschey Simplex does not look alike however, it uses more curve-like shapes (still straight lines when zoomed in), whereas EAGLE's font embraces straight lines and octagon-like shapes for traditionally curved characters.
Anyway, if you're set on EAGLE, then the two images below can be clicked on to enlarge (and to undistort them because this site sometimes renders my screenshots squashed, unless clicked on), then right-click to save in high-res, in a .png format. One set is on a grid, and the other has a blank background. (looks like we were doing it at the same time dougw ). I did it in the normal pen thickness, and a thinner pen, in case you're trying to get the line segment position values more precisely for recreating the font.
For the ones on the grid, there are 10 grid lines for the capital letter height, so you can approximately obtain line length proportions quickly.
