- 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?
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.
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.
Some of you may have heard: David’s retired from teaching and is now focusing on font design. He already has an apprentice with more making plans to join the foundry. Obviously, it was time for some changes.
The name comes from a huge hackberry tree on the boulevard outside the front door of the foundry. As they add workers Hackberry fonts will be offering fonts from a variety of people. Radiqx is looking forward to the future developments.
The address of the Website is http://www.hackberry-fonts.com
A new font foundry focused on fonts for book design