<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Well, I need something both low-contrast and modern for this project. I might even start with DIN or Futura. Not sure yet. In any event, I'm pretty sure I don't have the subtlety of eye to deal with Bodoni.<div><br></div><div>I'll see what I can do, and maybe we'll make a thing!</div><div><br></div><div>-Joshua<br><div><br><div><div>On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>2009/6/23 Joshua A.C. Newman <<a href="mailto:joshua@joshuanewmandesign.com">joshua@joshuanewmandesign.com</a>>:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Crud. It looks like it's time for a redraw.<br></blockquote><br>I'd rather that you looked at Bodoni and made your own, original, low<br>contrast sans serif based on its skeletal forms, but you do whatever<br>you think is more fun :-)<br><br><blockquote type="cite">There is a remarkable dearth of text body fonts in there. Surely we can<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">harness the power of open source to generate some good body type?<br></blockquote><br>We surely can.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Maybe we can start with some model characters (oOxXlwWbBAH) and go from<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">there?<br></blockquote><br>I suggest starting with a lowercase word that has several vowels and<br>ascender glyphs, like "adhesion" (as used in<br><a href="http://www.typedesign.rdg.ac.uk/)">http://www.typedesign.rdg.ac.uk/)</a> or "shoplift" (from Matthew Carter's<br>spot in The Helvetica Movie) - and I personally started with n o d s a<br>in that order. Such a word contains the "DNA" for the rest of the<br>typeface.<br><br>Please consider using the UFO format (since it is supported by both<br>FontForge and FontLab) and storing your files in a Distributed Version<br>Control System, like Mercurial.<br><br>Max Rabkin made a nice little script for keeping a FontForge font in a<br>Mercurial repository, if you are using FF.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"> or is this one of those "new guy on the list brings up the same thing we<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">keep trying to do like it's a new idea" things?<br></blockquote><br>Nope, there are a couple of collaborative typeface design experiments<br>currently underway - eg <a href="http://klepas.org/openbaskerville/">http://klepas.org/openbaskerville/</a> - but its<br>still very much a genuinely new idea, and you are most welcome to take<br>a crack at it :-)<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="text-align: right; "><a href="http://joshuanewmandesign.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF5903">Joshua Newman Design</font></a></div><div style="text-align: right; ">401.225.7222</div></div></div></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>