[OpenFontLibrary] Revival of the fittest

[vernon adams]

1. Cochin-Peignot inspired face with large xheight (i.e. kill those
ascenders)
2. definitely not Thermo type

:)


On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:21 -0500, Nathan Willis wrote:
> Hi everyone;
> 
> I mentioned this to a couple of you individually at LGM this year, but
> for everyone else, I decided I want to work on a revival -- in large
> part to get better with the font toolchain but without having to start
> entirely from scratch.  
> 
> So I've been looking over sample books and trying both find something
> I like and to cross reference what's there with existing open
> fonts....  But rather than just pick out something that I like the
> looks of personally, I'd prefer to work on something useful, so I was
> hoping I could solicit opinions from the more knowledgable folks on
> the list about my current crop of candidates.  If anything of these
> have been done already under an open license, or bear striking
> similarities to one, then they're off my list.  On top of that,
> though, if any in particular is a better choice for some other reason
> that you know of, I'm all ears.
> 
> Anyway, here's what I've turned up that I like thus far: 
> Nicolas Cochin
> Ronaldson
> Della Robbia
> and, to a lesser extent, Thermo Types
> 
> ... if that is the right name.  I started looking through the scans at
> Raph Levien's site, then went others at archive.org.  In any event,
> there seems to be no shortage of possibilities.  Does anyone have any
> words of wisdom related to these candidates in particular?  I'm
> entirely open to all feedback and re-direction....
> 
> Thanks,
> Nate
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