[OpenFontLibrary] Hevetice Neue on the OpenFont site

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

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.

I'll see what I can do, and maybe we'll make a thing!

-Joshua

On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:

> 2009/6/23 Joshua A.C. Newman <joshua at joshuanewmandesign.com>:
>>
>> Crud. It looks like it's time for a redraw.
>
> I'd rather that you looked at Bodoni and made your own, original, low
> contrast sans serif based on its skeletal forms, but you do whatever
> you think is more fun :-)
>
>> There is a remarkable dearth of text body fonts in there. Surely we  
>> can
>> harness the power of open source to generate some good body type?
>
> We surely can.
>
>> Maybe we can start with some model characters (oOxXlwWbBAH) and go  
>> from
>> there?
>
> I suggest starting with a lowercase word that has several vowels and
> ascender glyphs, like "adhesion" (as used in
> http://www.typedesign.rdg.ac.uk/) or "shoplift" (from Matthew Carter's
> spot in The Helvetica Movie) - and I personally started with n o d s a
> in that order. Such a word contains the "DNA" for the rest of the
> typeface.
>
> Please consider using the UFO format (since it is supported by both
> FontForge and FontLab) and storing your files in a Distributed Version
> Control System, like Mercurial.
>
> Max Rabkin made a nice little script for keeping a FontForge font in a
> Mercurial repository, if you are using FF.
>
>> or is this one of those "new guy on the list brings up the same  
>> thing we
>> keep trying to do like it's a new idea" things?
>
> Nope, there are a couple of collaborative typeface design experiments
> currently underway - eg http://klepas.org/openbaskerville/ - but its
> still very much a genuinely new idea, and you are most welcome to take
> a crack at it :-)

Joshua Newman Design
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