31.8.06 Font work for springIn a few hours, spring will have officially sprung. And to celebrate, I have spent a bit of time working on some of our fonts for JY&A Fonts. We’ve been considering putting JY Fiduci, the headline font used on the cover of Lucire, on to retail sale and let others use it, too. It was based on Caslon when I designed it, and I was inspired most by the work of Matthew Carter back in 2003. Now, a few years on, I opted for a more conventional Caslon model for the bold, though it’s not totally finished yet. This was an abortive font for me for years—I began work on it in 2004 and Kris Sowersby even offered to help me finish it. (I have actually been working on two of his typefaces, which I won’t show without his permission.) Finally, today, I sorted it out—but I still need to do the bold italic. As usual, I have put the double-f ligatures in. I originally wanted to do a ultra-bold roman, but on reflection it was easier to do this regular bold. Not sure when I will get time to get them all ready for retail sale, but I imagine it will happen before Christmas. Posted by Jack Yan, 11:17 Comments:
It looks really good. The decision to do an ultra bold or poster weight might depend on whether it should be set at sizes larger or smaller than 14pt, and whether one should use it for display or text.
# posted by David Philpott: 9/01/2006 01:14:00 AM
Thanks, David. Fiduci was intended as a display face for 24 pt usage, originally. I didn’t like the a and s in the settings above—bad copyfitting—so I have since changed them.
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