Creative Characters: Jean François Porchez
Jan Middendorp conducted a great interview when he was at my foundry, early july 2009. I hope one day, that all the interviews made from 2007 will be published by myfonts in a more tangible form!
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Font Discoveries July-September 2009: in use samples
Album name: Anisette Black, Artist names: Ambroise Firmin Demi. Design Marc Rouault.
Following the May 2009 publication, here after several extracted samples in use. July-September 2009 Font Discoveries for more info about the 4 fonts included: Le Monde Sans PTF Light, Ambroise Std Firmin Demi, Anisette Std Black, Angie Sans Std Bold Italic.
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Webfont proposal by Tal and Erik
Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland worked on a solution. Its a good idea and I support it.
A quick overview of the fields from this new xml file:
- format – This defines the format of the data in the fontdata file. Required.
- name – The name of the font. Required.
- creationdate – The date this particular font file was created. Required.
- vendorname – Name of the vendor of the font. Suggested.
- vendorurl – URL for the vendor of the font. Suggested.
- designcredits – A list of designers of the font. Optional.
- license – A license for the font. Optional.
- licenseurl – URL to licensing info for the font. Optional.
- copyright – A copyright for the font. Optional.
- trademark – A trademark for the font. Optional.
- allow – A list of URLs allowed to use the font. Optional.
- description – Text describing the font. Optional.
- privatedata – Arbitrary, private information set by the vendor of the font. Font vendors could use this to include any data that they deem necessary. Optional.
The fontdata file would contain the actual font file. The name does not have an extension so that it can be format agnostic. The format of the font file is specified by the
element in the info.xml file. Initially the only supported format would be “opentype”. (This covers both OTF-CFF and OTF-TTF.)
As stated above, these files would be compressed into a single file. We propose .zip as the compression format. If there is another compression format that would be easier for the browsers to implement, we are open to suggestions. An informal test showed an average 40% file size savings over the raw OpenType fonts.
ps. Peter Bilak is also working on another tool.
Font Discoveries program: July-September 2009
This new Font Discoveries pack is a good way to discover our fonts at an affordable price. Jump on the July-September 2009 Font Discoveries for more info about the 4 fonts included: Le Monde Sans PTF Light, Ambroise Std Firmin Demi, Anisette Std Black, Angie Sans Std Bold Italic. The available pdf present the 4 fonts in various contexts, samples in use, glyph sets and and so on.
There is few images on Facebook Typofonderie page/images.
Gutenberg 1.5
Blog graphique d’un ancien de SVM Mac qui travaille aujpurd’hui chez Quartet System. Bon sujet à propos des fontes, bons conseils à propos des pdfs et autres techniques.
Fac-similé des Monotype Ornaments
Jacques André vient de mettre en ligne un fac-similé de l’ouvrage de Frederic Warde à propos des vignettes de la Monotype et leur usage.
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Une fonte custom pour économiser
Fast Company note que l’introduction d’une fonte custom permet de faire des économies: Lyon.
Numéros utiles 2009
The printed version of this flyer found on my mailbox today doesn’t show immediatly something strange? Do you will spot it?
Find the right typeface?
1. A british pound designed in 1993.
2. A british pound designed in 2009.
The new game is to find it out what are theses two typefaces.
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Font Discoveries program: in use samples
Logotype: Parisine Plus PTF Sombre. Additional texts: Le Monde Livre Classic. External text: Angie Sans. Design Mathieu Réguer.
Yesterday, I have launched the Font Discoveries program. There is an extensive pdf available for which Mathieu Réguer and myself having designed several fake uses of the various fonts proposed into this first Font Discoveries May 2009.
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