- 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.
