[OpenFontLibrary] Revival of the fittest

[Peter Baker]

I love the old humanist serif typefaces: if I had time to launch a new
font project, I'd be looking at the Griffo/Manutius types. But
ultimately the only thing that gets you through a project as big as a
typeface project is making a thing you want to use yourself.

Someone asked about Junicode: it's not Garamond, but based on the type
in a Clarendon Press book of 1703/05. But I learned a lot from my
(legal) copies of Adobe Garamond and Caslon while I was doing the
original work.

Peter


On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Nathan Willis <nwillis at glyphography.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
>>
>> I wonder why you choose to work on a revival instead of an original
>> design in a specific genre, though? That seems more fun to me,
>> personally :-)
>>
> Oh, you know, partly general
> trying-not-to-bite-off-more-than-you-can-chew-ism w.r.t. a new project, and
> partly hoping that working on a revival proves to be a good source of
> inspiration.  But I also thought Eric had a really good point:
>
>> And to get started with collaboration might be more easy around something
>> that’s part of a shared visual idiom, rather than personal vision.
>
> ... if you want to get contributions from people outside your own character
> set (though I don't know what the collaboration stats are like for OFL in
> general -- I'm curious about that, though, like how many people are
> receiving patches of different kinds....)
>
>> Sure, I mean that making a revival isn't as fun as taking a model from
>> history and reworking it into an original design.
>
> Ah; yes indeed -- perhaps "reincarnation" is a better term then.  I do
> agree, for example, that the ascenders in Cochin are out of control, but
> there are so many other bits that are great....
>
> Thanks for all the feedback, everyone.  Clearly there's no shortage of
> ideas.  Isn't there a Caslon from George Williams already, though?
>
> And, actually, News Gothic was on my original list from the ATF scans; don't
> know why I left it off originally....
>
> Thanks,
> Nate
>
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