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Posts by: vernon adams
A new fork-in-progress of Seymour Font, part-inspired by the paintings of Donald Baechler
Oswald webfont now get’s pulled over 683,000,000 times per week just from the Google font servers. That sort of usage deserves some extra functionality! Oswald has proved itself as a useful webfont, so it’s a safe bet that more weights for people to play with is a good idea. Work is now [...]
Rammetto started as a reworking of the old Stephenson Blake design from 1927, ‘Basuto’, with the addition of a set of lowercase characters, as the original Basuto design contained only uppercase characters. ‘Ramo Sans’ (working name) is the result of cleaning up the Rammetto design and then degrading it via some Inkscape filters before re-importing [...]
‘Jertzy’ (working name) is a crossbreed between the Jinko and Mertz fonts. Work in progress, but it looks like it may be a handy font family some day.
Also, the next few months will see a major expansion and further improvements made to the Oswald webfonts. This work will include [...]
Metafont was devised by Donald Knuth in the late 1970′s to define vector fonts to be used as part of the TeX typesetting system. One characteristic of Metafont is that the forms and construction of glyphs are defined purely via geometrical equations. These equations can describe multiple fonts and the interpolation between them. Knuth [...]
As a result of some commercial custom work to build extra weights for the Muli Font family, Muli will soon have a few more weights to play with. Heavy, Thin and Medium weights, plus the italics, should be rolling out pretty soon. At the same time some general refinements have been made to the [...]
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