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Custom font weirdness
About 30 years ago, I designed a font for some John McLaughlin album covers I designed. I always hand-lettered the font in my illustrations, so the actual postscript or any other format of font was never created. Last summer I was approached by an author who is writing a book about the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and I was asked to do the cover which I did. In the process, the author requested the font, so I had a Typographer I know do it up, in Open Type, TrueType and Postscript. no problem, looks great on my dual 800 G4 running Tiger, works great in PS 7, InDesign 2, Illustrator 10. Fair enough.
So today I install the ttf and otf fonts on my G5 running the same OS, but with FCP 5, PS CS2, Illustrator CS2 and the LiveType that came with FCP Studio.
All of them see the fonts, which is an all-caps font, but the letters D.G,J,K,L,P,Q,W,X,Y,Z, all punctuation, and numbers missing! All the apps behave the same, but get this, in LiveType, it draws the lower case letters (which I designed 30 years ago but were not included in this font) and it draws them perfectly! I swear, this thing is haunted. Any ideas?
Have a wonderful day.
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4 Replies
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Sorry Chris, can’t help, just wanted to tell you I had all of Maclaughlin’s vinyl including the Santana stuff. Saw the tow of ’em in Portland OR in 1974.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Hey David,
Funny, those were the days!
Have a wonderful day.
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My typographer figured it out, apparently what I installed on the G5 was his demo font, which has missing letters and a few experimental lower case characters, which would wxplain the LiveType behavior. Doh!
Have a wonderful day.
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Yes, it works great now. It’s called Mahavishnu, and if anyone would like to see it or any other of Ray’s great fonts you can go here:
It’s still diaplayed on his home page.
Have a wonderful day.
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