1. Cochin-Peignot inspired face with large xheight (i.e. kill those ascenders) 2. definitely not Thermo type
:) On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:21 -0500, Nathan Willis wrote: > Hi everyone; > > I mentioned this to a couple of you individually at LGM this year, but > for everyone else, I decided I want to work on a revival -- in large > part to get better with the font toolchain but without having to start > entirely from scratch. > > So I've been looking over sample books and trying both find something > I like and to cross reference what's there with existing open > fonts.... But rather than just pick out something that I like the > looks of personally, I'd prefer to work on something useful, so I was > hoping I could solicit opinions from the more knowledgable folks on > the list about my current crop of candidates. If anything of these > have been done already under an open license, or bear striking > similarities to one, then they're off my list. On top of that, > though, if any in particular is a better choice for some other reason > that you know of, I'm all ears. > > Anyway, here's what I've turned up that I like thus far: > Nicolas Cochin > Ronaldson > Della Robbia > and, to a lesser extent, Thermo Types > > ... if that is the right name. I started looking through the scans at > Raph Levien's site, then went others at archive.org. In any event, > there seems to be no shortage of possibilities. Does anyone have any > words of wisdom related to these candidates in particular? I'm > entirely open to all feedback and re-direction.... > > Thanks, > Nate > -- > nathan.p.willis > [email protected] > aim/ym/gtalk:n8willis > identi.ca/n8
