A more legible dice font about homebrewery

[calculuschild]

And for fun, here's a crack at a D100. First is close to @Gazook89 's "stroked" style. Second matches the original DiceFont but in practice is barely legible without making the icon huge because the text is so small.

[5e-Cleric]

Definitely prefer the second option, way more space between numbers and other lines

[Gazook89]

Here is a better take on the 'stroked' numbers. Affinity Designer has a "Contour Tool" that can expand the edges of a shape, like a stroke, but keep the edge of that stroke as a vector path. I'm sure InDesign and Inkscape have similar (I know inkscape has stroke-to-path capabilities which is similar).

So my process here was:

1. Open existing glyph svg in Designer
2. Duplicate the number layer (an SVG curve)
3. Use Contour Tool on the duplicated layer, and set radius to .6px
4. Select the dice shape layer, and the duplicated layer, and use the Subtract operation
5. export to SVG.

Unfortunately, Designer doesn't have any scripting. Other programs do.

Edit: Here is a "100". I don't know if there is any use for it, but I wanted to try a 3 digit number and it was easy to do (note, the first example above is an actual SVG I imported, and this is just a screenshot of my workspace).

[Gazook89]

I had a thought, more of just a "maybe this would be cool to try": A variable font that used multiple alternate glyphs on a single axis.....applied here, it would be a single character that would change the displayed glyph based on something like the font-weight. So a d10 character, that when set to font-weight: 1 would display a d10 glyph with the number 1 showing. Change the font-weight to 2, and it would be the same character but display a 2 on it.

This isn't useful at all, I don't think, but you can read more about glyph swapping here. https://glyphsapp.com/learn/alternating-glyph-shapes

[5e-Cleric]

This isn't useful at all, I don't think, but you can read more about glyph swapping here. https://glyphsapp.com/learn/alternating-glyph-shapes

I disagree, variable fonts are great! i just don't know exactly how they work just yet, or how to make them! If i did we would likely be using them.