Open Source Font Coming Up ;)

Forum thread started by Mr.Jones on Thu, 2004-12-02 19:04

Hey there, just thought I'd post a very early look of what my upcoming Navarro Svizzera font looks like :p .. As you can see hinting around D, T, and Y still needs to be fixed but I'm far from finished as is obvious ;)

http://www40.brinkster.com/dylansmrjones/

It's looking not so bad, huh :P

Comments

Re: Open Source Font Coming Up ;)

by euan - 2004-12-02 20:57

Mr.Jones wrote:

Hey there, just thought I'd post a very early look of what my upcoming Navarro Svizzera font looks like :p .. As you can see hinting around D, T, and Y still needs to be fixed but I'm far from finished as is obvious ;)

http://www40.brinkster.com/dylansmrjones/

It's looking not so bad, huh :P

It's absolutely horrible....

the photo that is. :twisted:

Re: Open Source Font Coming Up ;)

by Mr.Jones - 2004-12-02 21:36

euan wrote:

It's absolutely horrible....

...

the photo that is. :twisted:

Yeah, I know. The Lord had a bad hairday when giving me the look I've got :P

But the font is not that bad at least... though Windoze seems to have problems hinting *.OTF-fonts correctly - but then... I dont' really use windoze for any serious stuff .. just too bloody unstable...

Just have to trace the missing 1040 characters before my font is MES-2 and WGL4 compliant :P

Re: Open Source Font Coming Up ;)

by umccullough - 2004-12-02 23:04

Mr.Jones wrote:

Yeah, I know. The Lord had a bad hairday when giving me the look I've got :P

LOL, you should use it for your avatar anyway ;)

Open Source Font Coming Up ;)

by ronaldst - 2004-12-03 12:04

Very nice font.

Open Source Font Coming Up ;)

by shadow - 2004-12-03 13:27

The font seems nice enough, although I find the name rather strange (not that strange names are not common for fonts). Does it mean something in Danish?

Open Source Font Coming Up ;)

by Mr.Jones - 2004-12-03 17:28

shadow wrote:

The font seems nice enough, although I find the name rather strange (not that strange names are not common for fonts). Does it mean something in Danish?

Heh... no, not in danish. However in italian it does ;)

Svizzera is the italian name for Switzerland and is named so because Navarro Svizzera is a sans serif-font (without feet). The most wellknown sans serif-font is Helvetica (meaning Switzerland - in latin), other sans serif - fonts are named Arial (we know that one) and Switzerland, Suisse and so on... So I wanted to be original and chose Svizzera because no sans serif-font has that name :P

Navarro is a prefix I'm using for all of my fonts. I think it was a kingdom in Spain for like 800-1000 years ago, but I'm not sure. I just like the sound of it :lol: