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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.

Advent

Ronald — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:34:02 +0000

Seven weights of Advent – three thin, three bold, and a good old reliable regular version. From Athens, Greece (not georgia) based designer Andreas Kalpakides (aka IndeGraphics.) What’s Advent like? A nice simple, elegant one – not too far off from Gill Sans maybe, but a bit more interesting. Quirky but not too out-there. More intriguing than Eurostile, but cut from the same cloth. Good to use for text, or even for display. Download Advent family OTFs,

Airstrip Four

Ronald — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:50:59 +0000

Now arriving at Fontaday .. Airstrip Four from funky freeware font finagler Vic Fieger. It’s a nice clean face, techno influenced no-doubt about it. Rounded edges, straight ascenders, quirky angles. From afar it could be mistaken for something like Vag Rounded Black, but when you really look you see it has its own character and hard edged techno funky detroit-berlin-transeurope express-like spirit. Download Airstrip Four TTF and prepare for take off. (upper case is same as lowercase, has numerals, limited character set)

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!

Nobile

Ronald — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:52:29 +0000

Nobile from Vernon Adams – a furniture restorer, woodcarver and typeface designer – via newtypo is licensed under the SIL Open Font License. Nobile is designed to work with the technologies of digital screens and handheld devices without losing the distinctive look more usually found in fonts designed for printing. Going back to William Morris’s baseline “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”, the aim was to design a font that could function well, have good legibility on screen yet also be good loooking, not only at larger display sizes but also right down to small text sizes. Download Nobile.

Lacuna

Ronald — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:32:07 +0000

Lacuna is a clean sans/semi-sans serif freeware font from Cologne based Peter Hoffman of Glashaus Design. A bit like Akagi Medium perhaps, Lacuna is a nice, simple face with endless possibilities. The font is supplied in two versions (regular and italic) with full character sets. Download Lacuna TTF.

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.