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Where has Flaminia disappeared to? I definitely recall it being there, and wayback machine proves me right, but it's as if the font vanished. Why is that?
— Anonymous
We’ve always had trouble with Flaminia. The idea is wonderful, the designer is incredible, but people would download Flaminia hoping for a font they could use, and that wasn’t the case. It was really more of an experiment, something to play with multiple masters, and ended up with a lot confused people.
We’ll be re-adding it to our Github in the New Year, so that people will have the opportunity to extend it and play with it, but until it’s a font that people can use and install, we think it’s best outside of the catalogue.
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INK is brand new, beautiful, and the first 100% student-run comics publication coming from SVA’s Cartooning Department. It’s free in both the App Store and as a PDF online.
They contacted us a while ago for our blessing in using The League’s fonts in their issue – to which we responded with, “Of course,” and it just launched, so they emailed us a super nice message letting us know.
I’m not all the way through yet, because there’s a lot of interesting material, but you should go grab a copy & peruse.
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Just found a new free font from megaco FontFont, Erler Dingbats, which is meant as a modern replacement for your prefab Dingbats font. Read carefully, there’s a difference between FF Dingbats 2.0 and Erler Dingbats, most of it being the extensiveness of the set, and the rest being the price.
The free one certainly looks great and could be useful, and I checked the EULA, they’re cool with embedding in “documents, applications, and devices.”
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For our body copy, we picked Calluna because it’s was great for the style we need, but a bunch of loyal Windows users have sent us screenshots that it’s not rendering so well on their machines, so we’ll probably be switching fonts soon. I want to keep the style the same, and Barry recommended a couple fonts that I’m interested in testing out, so we’ll try to push a site update within the next few days to make it more legible. Thanks for all the feedback about it, everyone!
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This morning, The League launched a big update, probably the biggest since our first launch, which if you haven’t read about yet, you should.
There’s been a ton of awesome feedback & support from everybody, and The League is intensely grateful. We’ve got a handful of Supporting Members already, and tons of awesome tweets. There were a couple interesting debates that cropped up today, so I figured I’d share.
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Dearest Followers, Typography Lovers, and Supporters,
I write to you today as Micah Rich, one of the original founders of The League. I’ve been working the past few weeks on a few major changes that I’m far too excited not to share with you. I have so much to tell you, but to start, let’s talk about how The League’s updated it’s branding, site, & blog.
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“ttfautohint is a neat little program that takes an unhinted TrueType font and hints it using FreeType’s autohinting system.
This brings the excellent quality of FreeType to platforms which don’t use it to draw text, like Microsoft’s, and yet also require hinting for text to look good.”
Hinting is one of the hardest and worst parts about making a font. We know because our fonts are mostly not hinted, and we’ve been trying to work on that. This tool looks like it’ll make that process super simple, which means everyone’s fonts will look good all over the place, especially at small sizes.
We wanna see this happen, so we’ve donated as much as we can at the moment. But if you guys all help out, maybe we can get this really going!
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A new League typeface is in the making!
chadilaksono:
Minding my Q’s
Immersing myself all day on type making today. I’m working on that new typeface for The League.
It’s coming along quite nicely, and faster than I thought it would. But for most of today and yesterday, I’ve been stuck, unexpectedly on the letter Q.
You’d think Q would be pretty simple, right? Copy the “O” and give it a tail. Well, the tail is really the pickle here. I just didn’t know what sort of tail it should have. Should it reach below the baseline, or should it be aligned to the baseline?. Should it slice through the bowl of the O, or not? How angled should the tail be?
All in all, I spent a ton of time trying out all the different possibilities that the Q could go, but I think I finally have decided on one, the very last one on that list. You can see the evolution I went through to get there.
To be honest, I think some of the non-slicing tails in the beginning of the list kinda looks good, as a stand alone Q, but I don’t think they’d work well as part of a unit. I’d like to keep all the capitals to be aligned and above the baseline, so having a Q tail that reaches below, would break that consistency.
So that’s where I’m at right now. Stay tuned for more updates, ramblings, queries, complaints, and/or suicidal thoughts on this subject!
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Oh hey, someone took League Gothic and extended it!
Ahh, the beauty of open source! This is exactly the kind of things that we had hoped to spark when we first started The League. Motivate people to do something useful that would benefit everyone and the internet!
Thanks Dannci for helping all of us out!
typethefont:
We all love League Ghotic font from theleagueofmoveabletype.com
So I extended this famous and awesome font the Latin Extended-A character set.
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