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From the monthly archives: November 2011
Norican (left) is a free script font, based on a number of old typefaces, in particular ‘Glenmoy’ issued in 1932 by the Stephenson Blake foundry. Norican is not an attempt to revive the old Glenmoy design, instead the original font’s forms have been used as a starting point to create a [...]
FontOne is an experimental exercise to use a highly modular design schema to build, from scratch, a straightforward font aimed at digital screen use. The aim is to create a basic font, ‘FontOne’, whose stem widths, heights and forms are shaped specifically at producing good legibility and rendering. The curves of FontOne [...]
One long-ish term project is to create versions of Nobile and Mako (above) customised for Android devices. This is likely to result in an amalgamation of features from both fonts into a new face, to give three GUI fonts for portable and handheld devices.
(above – Mako in [...]
The following screenshots illustrate the issue of autohinting thin stemmed webfonts for rendering with Windows OS ClearType using ttfautohint. The fonts used are Lato Light and Lato Hairline that have been auto-instructed using ttfautohint. A fix to this is expected soon.
(above – Lato Light. Windows GDI ClearType)
(below – Lato Hairline. Windows [...]
(above) ‘Norican’ is a script based on the Stephenson Blake typeface ‘Glenmoy’ with elements from numerous other old script faces mashed in.
(below) Digital sketches for a new face. The diacritic marks are snatched from circa 1920′s Deberny & Peignot specimens.
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