August 7, 2019
Custom Digital Font – Part 1 – The Microwave
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August 7, 2019
Custom Digital Font – Part 1 – The Microwave
I am currently a provider of technical training and support in the electronic manufacturing industry. My prior training and work experience as a teacher, network administrator, web design, and instructional design make me well prepared to design it, develop it, and deliver it. I am a father of five, a US Army veteran, and I enjoy playing the guitar as well as performing in local community theater. 
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This is a 4-part series having to do with a custom digital font that I created and intend to give to you.

However – before I do that – I want to share some things. The first two will be projects that utilize the font in fun yet different ways.

  1. The STAGROWAVE 3000 microwave oven!
  2. Stay tuned for Project Number 2! (It is a Surprise)
  3. I will show you how I created the font.
  4. I will provide the font with some details on how to incorporate it into your own projects.

So – clearly – the first of these projects is the STAGROWAVE 3000! This microwave will make your neighbors jealous.

The STAGROWAVE 3000 comes with the following standard features.

  1. 12-key control pad with numbers 0-9 as well as both COOK and CANCEL buttons.
  2. A large, easy-to-read LED digital display. (Featuring the Digital Font)
  3. Clock that reads out in 24-hour military time when not cooking.
  4. Cook timer that can cook up to 99 minutes and 99 seconds. (UMM – Not recommended)
  5. Large interior that can accommodate your Thanksgiving turkey!

Try it out today!Play

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2019-12-11 02:18:06
2019-12-11 02:18:06

Thank you.

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2019-10-12 18:52:54
2019-10-12 18:52:54

Wow !

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2019-08-10 15:12:56
2019-08-10 15:12:56

A fourth type of font, OMG, have been explaining so much about typography last weeks…

I never had that ‘bug’, strangely. But I only use websafe or Adobe fonts. Only when I am not logged in the CC app to have access to my account which is linked to the Adobe fonts, did I have that appear once.  Now, the problem is more with the multitheme projects. Enhancements to themes are very important, and most developers do even ignore them completely. This will cause frustrations for sure.

As for the deprecated Learning Interactions, you seem to confuse them with the interactive objects which are all still available, including your click box. I will update my list (dates from CP8) and post it on my personal blog, maybe also here although with the changes in UI, fear that not many users will read it. I was also bit afraid that the check boxes, radiobutton, dropdown, scrolling text … would have been taken out. But they took out the games, which I never used myself.

You should have a quick look at the posts I created about the 6 types of buttons. I like the push effect. Click box will be deprecated one day when all developers use Fluid Boxes because you cannot stack in them. I love the SVG’s as buttons because you can control the clickable area, posted a use case a couple of days ago on my blog and here but it is not yet moderated. I really don’t care about that push effect for real buttons: it happens for shape buttons, bitmap images used as buttons and SVG’s used as buttons.

Just FYI: have 3 systems running, one with 11.5.1.499, one with 11.0.5.476 – with two hotfixes – and 11.0.1.266.

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2019-08-10 15:45:42
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Yeah – recent community changes have sort of left it broken.

I think it looks nicer from a cosmetic standpoint but from a functional standpoint, I think it went backwards.

The statement about the update only addresses interactions and does not say learning interactions so it was unclear and the click box does fall under the interactions menu.

I never use the learning interactions. I will not be sad to see the Jeopardy thing go away. I remember when it was all the rage to build a Jeopardy game with PowerPoint and a ton of slides.

Like a song overplayed on the radio.

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2019-08-10 15:49:54
2019-08-10 15:49:54
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I used to look for new questions daily, that has now become impossible. Sorry for all the users left without answers but there is no way. Notifications are broken as well, only Chrome notifications are bit useful.

Design is very important, but not functioning well can break the most wonderful design.

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2019-08-10 12:19:50
2019-08-10 12:19:50

I didn’t know that you created fonts as well! It looks great. Was laughing about the ‘military’ 24 hours time indicator which is default in Europe, but not linked at all with ‘military’. Looks like the army is bit more logical?? Maybe they also use °C for temperature, and cm/m/km for sizes?

One serious question (it is hare do find new contributions nowadays in this portal).  Font is in dynamic text, why does it looks well on my system which doesn’t have the font installed? You may have heard about the fonts discussions for the new update?

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2019-08-10 14:46:23
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Thanks, Lieve –

To be fair the font is not a true font that would be installed to your system. It is really a series of states that are dynamically updating. That is why I call it a “custom font”. Hopefully that does not let you down too much.

What I will provide for everyone in this community is a project file where you could simply copy a single box that has all of the characters – letters, numbers, and some symbol states as well – already loaded into it. That one box could then be duplicated for as many spaces as needed and resized to fit your needs. In the case of the Stagrowave 3000, I duplicated the box three times for a total of four digits.

In the final post of the series – I will outline some strategies for using it in both static and dynamic cases.

I have often wanted to have a decent digital looking font but could never find one that did not cost something and even then it was not quite what I was looking for – and like you said – if it isn’t installed on someone’s system – it won’t be displayed anyway – so why spend the money on it if it won’t show up for others?

This is my attempt to get around that problem and I thought maybe some others would get some use out of it as well.

As for the military – along with the rest of the U.S. – we’re pretty much stuck with the Standard units. We learn about the metric system in schools but my experience is that few are fluent with it unless in a specific industry that requires it. Even then the scope is narrow. My children harass me for my use of it – (I always have my vehicle parameters set for metric) My boys freak when looking at the temperature in Celsius and my daughter who drives freaked when she saw that I was going 100 kph in a 65 mph zone. Ha Ha. Of course – all she saw was the big digital 100 on the dash. It was a good laugh.

I have read about the whole Tahoma debacle and have been frustrated by it myself. Created extra work.  It looks like there has been another update (Update 3). Not sure if that fixes anything or not but this should not be affected by that mess. I notice that the new update claims to have deprecated some interactions due to low usage but I hope that the click box is not one of them. I know that you prefer to use smartshapes as buttons and I really like that too but the automatic in-built states really drive me nuts and I find that deleting the extra states don’t always eliminate the “push button” effect. I like it when I need it but most of the time I don’t. That is when I use a click box. I hate having an animation I cannot fully control which ruins the feel of my project. Enough of that rant for now.

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