The Typodarium folks sent me a free copy of their 2010 calendar (incredibly nice of them! I would’ve bought one), complete with Banyan as the face of May 8. Woot!
I’ve re-worked Lavoisier, tweaking many of the glyphs, and completely redoing the sidebearings and kerning. Take it for a spin! Visit the Lavoisier page to download the font and/or the source files.
Just released over at MyFonts.com!
So I’ve been working on and off for a year on a text face that I’m tentatively calling “Modus.”
The idea of creating a good italic for this is daunting enough so that the font family may never see the light of day. But, in any event, working on the regular version has been incredibly instructive.
I liked Epistolar so much that I contributed some new glyphs and tweaks. Masklin8 was kind enough to use these tweaks and re-release the font over on Deviant Art. Go check it out and download it (for free)!
I just went on my semi-annual voyage through the free fonts on Deviant Art, and came up with a few you might be interested in:
Character Combiner in Action
I whipped up a program to help me with kerning in FontLab. It’s Windows-only, and needs the .NET framework to run. It’s in pretty raw form, but does what it does pretty well. Feel free to download it (click on the image above) if you’re one of the seemingly rare Windows FontLab users out there. The idea is that you have two sets of glyphs (in FontLab’s slash-name format), and you generate all (or some random subset) of the combinations of those glyphs. Copy and paste this list into FontLab’s kerning window, and kern baby, kern. There’s no documentation, so if it’s confusing, just shoot me an e-mail.
Yacht Font
Just released over on MyFonts.com: I Am a Bird. A slab serif font family with a bit of a twist.
