{"id":445,"date":"2018-07-13T16:27:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T15:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavitreequarrytrails.org.uk\/?page_id=445"},"modified":"2024-04-23T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T15:34:46","slug":"heavitree-stone-font","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/heavitree-stone-font\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavitree Stone font"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"445\" class=\"elementor elementor-445\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-257008e8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"257008e8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9389aa4\" data-id=\"9389aa4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a2ec84 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6a2ec84\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1973\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stone-3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-640\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stone-3.jpg 1973w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stone-3-300x53.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stone-3-768x135.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stone-3-1024x181.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1973px) 100vw, 1973px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7df35707 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7df35707\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Creating the alphabet<\/h2>\n<p>Steven Bramble is a local artist and member of the Quarry Pod. He came up with the idea for a Heavitree Stone alphabet early on in our discussions. It began as a design exercise that could be used in schools (it still could) and it also sparked the idea for the <a href=\"https:\/\/heavitreequarrytrails.org.uk\/follow\/q-is-for-quarries\/\">A-Z trail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over a few months, Steven played with many letter forms and combinations. It is fascinating to see his book of workings showing the process of an artist. Gradually the form of the irregular stone blocks in a horizontal coursing took shape.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e51f61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-gallery\" data-id=\"6e51f61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-gallery.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-gallery\">\n\t\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-445 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"6e51f61\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Sketchbook 1\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6NTU1LCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvY2xhcmVicnlkZW4uY28udWtcL2hxdFwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvU2tldGNoYm9vay0xLmpwZyIsInNsaWRlc2hvdyI6IjZlNTFmNjEifQ%3D%3D\" href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sketchbook-1.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sketchbook-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"6e51f61\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Sketchbook 2\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6NTQ4LCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvY2xhcmVicnlkZW4uY28udWtcL2hxdFwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvU2tldGNoYm9vay0yLmpwZyIsInNsaWRlc2hvdyI6IjZlNTFmNjEifQ%3D%3D\" href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sketchbook-2.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sketchbook-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"6e51f61\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Sketchbook 3\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6NTQ5LCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvY2xhcmVicnlkZW4uY28udWtcL2hxdFwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvU2tldGNoYm9vay0zLmpwZyIsInNsaWRlc2hvdyI6IjZlNTFmNjEifQ%3D%3D\" href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sketchbook-3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sketchbook-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"6e51f61\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Sketchbook 4\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6NTUwLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvY2xhcmVicnlkZW4uY28udWtcL2hxdFwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvU2tldGNoYm9vay00LmpwZyIsInNsaWRlc2hvdyI6IjZlNTFmNjEifQ%3D%3D\" href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sketchbook-4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sketchbook-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"6e51f61\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Sketchbook 5\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6NTUxLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvY2xhcmVicnlkZW4uY28udWtcL2hxdFwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvU2tldGNoYm9vay01LmpwZyIsInNsaWRlc2hvdyI6IjZlNTFmNjEifQ%3D%3D\" href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sketchbook-5.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sketchbook-5-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e81b895 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e81b895\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Making a font<\/h2>\n<p>Steven&#8217;s letters are very beautiful in their own right. We also wanted to be able to use them, and the best way of doing this was to turn them into a font.<\/p>\n<p>The first step was to digitise Steven&#8217;s artwork. Clare is an Hon Research Fellow in Humanities at the University of Exeter, so was able to access the brand new <a href=\"https:\/\/humanities.exeter.ac.uk\/digital-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Humanities Lab<\/a>. The Lab is stuffed with state-of-the-art audiovisual technology, and during its first year, the staff were keen to experiment with ways of using it. Clare and Steven spent two fascinating afternoons first learning about the process and what was required, and then proceeding with the digitisation. Essentially, this involves taking very high resolution photographs of the pages of Steven&#8217;s portfolio. These show an incredible amount of detail, every brushstroke and mark on the paper, capturing the roughness of the Heavitree Stone itself. We are very grateful to the Lab, and to Gary Stringer and Emma Sherriff for their assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Once we had electronic images of the letters, Clare could use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calligraphr.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">free online Calligraphr tool<\/a> to transform them into a font. You can use this to make a font out of your own handwriting too! There are handy tutorials and FAQs on the website.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3bdb64 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c3bdb64\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stone-1-1024x208.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-641\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stone-1-1024x208.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stone-1-300x61.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stone-1-768x156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stone-1.jpg 1768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73255f6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"73255f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aa8f505 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aa8f505\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Where we have used the font<\/h2>\n<p>We have used the font on all the Heavitree Stone material, eg as icons on the <a href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/follow\/heavitree-stone-trails\/\">Heavitree Stone trail leaflets<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/follow\/q-is-for-quarries\/\">Q is for Quarries trail for mobiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Credit also goes to Eva Design for the idea of &#8216;quarrying&#8217; the letters out of photos of the Heavitree Stone quarries. You can see this in the website header and the leaflets.<\/p>\n<p>High-resolution letter images are featured in the companion <a href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/category\/structures\/a-z\/?order=ASC\">A-Z of Heavitree stone-built sites<\/a> on this website.<\/p>\n<h2>How you can get the font<\/h2>\n<p>You are very welcome to download and use the font. You will need one of the following files. There is a guide to the format you need and how to install fonts on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dafont.com\/faq.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en-GB&amp;q=https:\/\/www.dafont.com\/faq.php&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1531836409897000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEtt5hGAKcU77XTx_tA9Z1OsED6ZQ\">dafont.com\/faq.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/font\/HeavitreeStone-Regular.ttf\">HeavitreeStone-Regular.ttf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/font\/HeavitreeStone-Regular.otf\">HeavitreeStone-Regular.otf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d0ce25 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"6d0ce25\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d402e14 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d402e14\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Z-contact-sheet.png\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Heavitree Stone alphabet contact sheet\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6NDUxLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvY2xhcmVicnlkZW4uY28udWtcL2hxdFwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvQS1aLWNvbnRhY3Qtc2hlZXQucG5nIn0%3D\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3600\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Z-contact-sheet.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-451\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Z-contact-sheet.png 3600w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Z-contact-sheet-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Z-contact-sheet-768x410.png 768w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Z-contact-sheet-1024x546.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating the alphabet Steven Bramble is a local artist and member of the Quarry Pod. He came up with the idea for a Heavitree Stone alphabet early on in our discussions. It began as a design exercise that could be used in schools (it still could) and it also sparked the idea for the A-Z &#8230; <a title=\"Heavitree Stone font\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/heavitree-stone-font\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Heavitree Stone font\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-445","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}