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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > nathan.p.willis > [email protected] > aim/ym/gtalk:n8willis > identi.ca/n8 >
