2026-05-08T17:41:35Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/tutorial/ D. Moonfire Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 2014-09-13T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2014/09/13/making-slippery-maps/

Someone recently asked me how to create an online map of a created world. I decided to use this opportunity to update my Exalted online map to a newer library while writing a tutorials.

2014-08-20T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2014/08/20/miwafu-glyphs-font/

Continuing my series of making a conscript, this describes the steps of going from a cleaned up vector version of the script to a basic font.

2014-08-19T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2014/08/19/miwafu-redux-vectorize/

Once I got a clean raster version of the glyphs, I use Inkscape to create a vector format which is suitable for importing into FontForge. Part 3 of creating a Miwāfu font.

2014-08-18T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2014/08/18/miwafu-glyphs-cleanup/

After drawing out the Miwāfu glyphs by hand, I had to scan them in and get them ready for us.

2014-08-17T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2014/08/17/miwafu-glyphs-redux/

Since I picked up a few new calligraphy pens for my birthday, I tried to write out Miwāfu and found that it was a bit more difficult than I thought. So I redrew them until they weren't difficult.

2013-07-22T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2013/07/22/making-a-cover-for-sand-and-blood/