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Day Roman

Ronald — Thu, 12 May 2011 00:02:22 +0000

The two-tiers font included in this archive, Day Roman, is a digitally redrawn version of what has come to be historically known as the “Two Line Double Pica Roman”, a typeface designed by 16th century French punchcutter FranÁois Guyot, and used in numerous books between 1535 and 1570, most notable of which are J. Steelsius’s printing of The Bible (1541) and Frisius (1551), Gillis Coppens van Diest’s printing of Erasmus (1544), Georgius (1544), Serlio (1550) and Horatius (1552), and Rotarius’s printing of Livius Brechtius (1549). The type was also used extensively by H. Dunham, and later J. Day, in London (the name Day Roman is simply a reference to J. Day having used the type). Original matrices of Guyot’s roman type are now in the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp. From 2002, Fredrick Nader at Apostrophic Labs. Download TTFs.

Cabin

Ronald — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:02:22 +0000

From Pablo Impallari (design, argentenia) with the help of Igino Marini (spacing and kerning, italy) comes the Cabin family. Pablo is also behind the Lobster Font i posted a while back, Cabin is a nice serious sans serif typeface that comes in 8 styles – Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, SemiBold, SemiboldItalic, Bold, BoldItalic. Upon first impression Cabin has a very typical humanist sans-serif feel, smooth with curves, thin and light but still authoritative. It’s not Helvetica or Gill Sans, although some people who don’t look too close may confuse it. Cabin is elegantly modern and refreshing and highly useable for print and web designs and it’s a great alternative to fonts people see every day. (and check out that @!!) Download Cabin TTFs.

Neuton

Ronald — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:21:16 +0000

Neuton, a legible text face adorned with serifs comes to us from Brian Zick,an autodidactic type-designer, hailing from Arkansas, United States. Born in Pennsylvania, he has lived all over the US, and was homeschooled from an early age. His interest in type began several years ago, with web design, and lead him on to typography and calligraphy, eventually he tried his hand at designing types. Download Neuton OTF.

Titillium

Ronald — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:31:22 +0000

Titillium is born inside the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino as a didactic project Course Type design of the Master of Visual Design Campi Visivi from Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino in Italy.

The aim of the project is the creation of a collective fonts released under OFL to be promoted and shared through a web platform. Each academic year, a dozen of students are working on the project developing and solving problems. The type designers interested in the amendment or revision of Titillium are invited to cooperate or develop their own variants of the character according to the terms specified in the license. We also asking the graphic designers who use Titillium in their projects to send us some characters imagines used in order to prepare a case histories database.

A unique project worth checking back-in on from time to time, Titillium is still evolving and new versions and weights are being added and are planned for the future. Currently included six text weights, four map styles and one titling version. Download the latest collection of Titillium OTFs with VFBs.

Crimson Text

Ronald — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:46:02 +0000

Crimson Text, from Toronto-based designer Sebastian Koch who says “Crimson Text is a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful oldstyle typefaces. There are a lot of great free fonts around, but one kind is missing: those Garamond-inspired types with all the little niceties like oldstyle figures, small caps, fleurons, math characters and the like. In fact, a lot of time is spend developing free knock-offs of ugly “standards” like Times and Helvetica. Crimson Text is inspired by the fantastic work of people like Jan Tschichold, Robert Slimbach and Jonathan Hoefler. I hope that the free type community will one day be able to enjoy Crimson Text as a beautiful workhorse.” Definitely a nice face worth checking out, even though it is still in its early stages. Download the Crimson Text TTF.

Surface

Ronald — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:38:47 +0000

Surface is from Bruno Herfst at Sauce Design in the Netherlands, a very nice medium weight humanist sans-serif font. Falls somewhere between text and display, very friendly. not too hard – not too soft, just right. Lots of foreign characters and such. Download Surface Medium OTF file.

Hattori Hanzo

Ronald — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:11:28 +0000

Hattori Hanzo, a Creative Commons typeface from Moscow Based Roman Shamin is a font that was created for catchy headings and short blocks of text and body copy. It’s nice, clean and legible with lots of international-ability. Download Hattori-Hanzo OTF!

Cardo

Ronald — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:53:17 +0000

Cardo from Fonts for Scholars in Rye, New York is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists. Since it may be used to prepare materials for publication, it also contains features that are required for high-quality typography, such as ligatures, text figures (also known as old style numerals), true small capitals and a variety of punctuation and space characters. It may also be used to document and discuss the features of Unicode that are applicable to the these disciplines, as we work to help colleagues understand the value (and limitations) of Unicode.

This font is my version of a typeface cut for the Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius and first used to print Pietro Bembo’s book De Aetna. This font has been revived in modern times under several names (Bembo, Aetna, Aldine 401). I chose it mainly because it is a classic book face, suitable for scholarship, and also because it is easier to get various diacritics sized and positioned for legibility with this design than with some others. I added a set of Greek characters designed to harmonize well on the page with the Roman letters as well as many other characters useful to scholars. The Hebrew characters are designed to match those used in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia as closely as possible and so have no claim to originality. Download Cardo 99 TTF.

LinuxLibertine

Ronald — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:16:50 +0000

OK, again I am hooked on these open source typefaces – they have been of great quality and consistency and of course, they are free to use, share, modfy, etc. Linux Libertine, from the .org of the same name is one such beautiful face – “Letters and fonts have two characteristics: On the one hand they are basic elements of communication and fundamental to our culture, on the other hand they are cultural goods and an artistic work. You are able to see just the first aspect, but when it comes to software you’ll see copyrights and patents even on the most elementary fonts. Therefore we want to give you a free alternative: This is why we founded the Libertine Open Fonts Project.” (also of note, Libertine is the face used on the Wikipedia logo). The package includes a very diverse 20 variants, including Regular, Italic, Bold Italic, Small Capitals, Biolinum (an organic sans-serif and could be also described as organogrotesque) and a few “keyboard” versions ideal for computer documentation. Download massive Linux Libertine package here.

Gentium

Ronald — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:33:15 +0000

Gentium from SIL is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin and Greek scripts to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode. The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive. The additional ‘extended’ Latin letters are designed to naturally harmonize with the traditional 26 ones. Diacritics are treated with careful thought and attention to their use. Gentium also supports both polytonic and monotonic Greek, including a number of alternate forms. Download Gentium Truetype font.

Lentil

Ronald — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:11:07 +0000

Lentil, from Grand Rapids, Michigan based Dan Meyer at Fictional Head Design is a great serif face with more flair than your average times new roman, without being too over the top and unusable. Download Lentil TTF.

Tuffy

Ronald — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:12:38 +0000

Tuffy, By NY/MA based Thatcher Ulrich is a nice and highly useable sans serif face that is supplied in the typical four styles – regular, bold, italic and bold italic – making it an ideal font to use for text, headlines, anything that needs to be legible. Thatcher has released this font into the public domain and you can download the TTF and OTFs here.

Vegur

Ronald — Sat, 08 May 2010 13:55:54 +0000

Today we bring you Vegur version 0.601 from Sora Sagano at Dotcolon in Kanazawa City in the Ishikawa Prefecture of Japan. Supplied in four weights – Light, Medium, Regular and Bold – Vegur is an ideal sans serif typeface for text and headline use with a style reminiscent of Albert Boton and Albert Hollensteins’ ITC Eras – simple, understated with a strong personality. Download Vegure OTFs.