- Specimen book for Buddy August 24, 2010
- New release! Buddy: the sans companion to Contenu August 24, 2010
- Classes mess up Opentype Glyph generation August 9, 2010
- A history of the alphabet August 9, 2010
- Going after the look of old fonts? Not likely August 7, 2010
Announcing this all over
You may have seen this already, but it is a major piece of work and probably my most mature and sophisticated set of font designs yet. I finally broke down and spaced them for body copy—so they will work well at text sizes [from 9-point to 12-point] without the need to fiddle with the spacing. The design is a contemporary take on oldstyle serif typefaces using Jenson as the mask. The roots of this design go back to Minister which Monotype says has Garalde influence.
It is very conservative for me. I even went to a small bowl on the lowercase a. What’s the world coming to?
It really helps production efficiency and speed.
Great find! Command+Arrow Key on selected pieces moves 100 units
This shows my ignorance of things like this, but I just discovered a great shortcut built into FontLab. As I have mentioned many times, moving selections right or left is a constant thing—especially while building composite glyphs and letterspacing a new font. One of my irritations over the years has been the internal debate over whether it is more efficient to move components with multiple shift+right arrows or to go to the mouse and shift+drag. I’ve used both over the years, but they are both frustrating.
Again to review, the arrow key moves one unit and the shift+arrow key moves ten units. I just accidently found that the Command+arrow moves the selection 100 units. What a great timesaver!
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Hackberry Font Foundry has released three fonts since the first of the year. They’ve all had a good response, and they’re all on sale until the early April.
Acadami is working well as a book font and on sale until April 2 for $9. It’s up to 38 on the Starlets list of the old site, and 58th on the hot new fonts list on the new site.
Cutlass is just fun and up to 26 on the Starlets list of the old site, and 68th on the hot new fonts list on the new site. It’s on sale until April 16 for $9.
Chunkie is just released today and it goes on sale from tomorrow until early May.
All available on Myfonts.
A journey with an experienced font designer through the creation of a new OpenType font developed for release. This is also part of the training materials for the apprentices of the Hackberry Font Foundry.
That’s the blurb on Lulu. This is the first limited release on my Practical Font Design book. It is limited because it’s done on FontLab 4.6 and FontLab 5 has been out for quite a while.
As you know, Hackberry Fonts is a low-budget operation so David has simply not had the capital to invest in the latest version of FontLab. When that happens, we will be releasing a major effort (probably with ISBN#s and everything). However, I’m not sure we’ll bother with ISBNs there either because it makes the books twice as expensive for little added benefit to the reader.
We believe the book is helpful to graphic designers who are thinking about dipping their toe in the waters of font design.
Practical Font Design: Parts #1-3 Proof by David Bergsland (Book) in Arts & Photography.
We just published a beta proof of the first three parts of the upcoming book called, “Practical Font Design”. It’s a guide to using FontLab to make fonts for yourself as a graphic designer who loves type.
It will also be used as a sourcebook for apprentices of Hackberry Fonts.
Their hope is that by providing the proof at the heavily discounted price of $11.50 for the perfect bound version and $5 for the downloadable version, you will buy the proof to use, and send in typos and suggestions for the completion of the book. people who participate in the proofing will receive a free copy of the downloadable version when it is finally published.