Ninja April 16th, 2008
Congrats to Mr. Jos Buivenga (the art director and type-designer behind exljbris) on his well-deserved spot on the blog, I love typography! You can check out his sketches and get a peek into his design process here.
Ninja March 17th, 2008
Hallo NvP! Good morning, and for those of you celebrating, Happy St. Patrick’s Day. And even if you’re not celebrating, I hope you’re having a happy Monday.
Mr. Jos Buivenga of exljbris kindly sent me an email to let me know that Museo is out. Thanks, Jos for the heads up + for creating this beaut! ^__^
Museo… it all started with my love for the letter ‘U’. This uppercase letter just came to me as an image in a daydream. The top of both stems bent into semi-slab serifs. From this principle I worked out the rest of the uppercase letters. My first intention was to make it an all-caps display font but after a while I changed my mind. I wanted it to be a bit more versatile, so I decided to add lowercase and adjust spacing and kerning to increase legibility.
Jos Buivenga
Features
+ OpenType in five weights*
+ CE language support
+ ligatures
+ contextual alternatives
+ stylistic alternates
+ fractions and proportional/tabular figures
+ case feature for case-sensitive forms
* MUSEO font family has five weights (100 300 500 700 900).
3 weights are free (300 500 700) and 2 require purchasing (100 900).
Purchasing/free download link
+ Get Museo from MyFonts
Ninja September 13th, 2007
Normally, free fonts = really crappy fonts. But wait, free font foundry, exlijbris is offering up something quite nice. Anivers, was created in celebration of Smashing Magazine’s one-year anniversary.
This lovely font boasts features you would expect from other quality fonts:
+ ligatures (yay—it’s even got the fj ligature, so I can set “fjord” now)
+ contextual alternatives
+ fractions
+ oldstyle/tabular numerals*
+ ‘case’ feature for case sensative forms
+ over 1600 kerning pairs
* (sigh) it comes with oldstyle figures—no need to purchase the expert set (oh, wait, it’s free)
Link:
+ Download Anivers (scroll down—sorry exlijbris does not like direct linking)
Limited edition lithograph prints. Signed + numbered.
