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  1. #11
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    Default Re: A new font resource

    I love it, Mike. You use a similar accounting method to mine, which I call "Economic Rationalization and Equivalency". When I quit smoking years ago, I felt the money should go in a piggy bank instead of back into the General Kitty. And I always try to evaluate whether a toy...I'm being honest here, fonts are toys...is less than, say, a Whopper with cheese and bacon.

    This works out very nicely because fast food places are charging $75/pound for second-rate meat.

    I collected a few Script faces that are similar in spirit to Salamander off one of my drives. Many of them are free. you just need to look and be wary of font-holes where you get malware for your time.

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    My Best,

    Gary

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    Yeah, some freebie sites actually can cost someone aggravation. One local screen printer I do work for has a penchant for clicking hither and dither on some of the free sites. Last time their computer guy went nuts, it took a day to rid the computer of nasties.

    With fonts, I have a thing for the odd, some grungy, and for scripts (probably in that order of preference). I have decades worth of sans serif and serif fonts. Doing books and manuals for so long, I didn't really purchase "different" fonts much, just used what came with CorelDraw for the most part, some downloads, etc. My favorite script creator is Laura Worthington. Love her stuff.

    Now if XDP could actually make full use of modern fonts. I did a flier not long ago that I began in XDP but needed to finish the type in CD so I could make use of the alternates, etc. Pity.

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    Xara Designer 10, perhaps, Mike.

    I'd be nice...no, necessary, for a dtp program to be able to access all the Unicode characters, mostly the alternate characters.

    My fave for a long time has been David Farey. He gets my vote for having created Beesknees after the title cards from a Marx Brothers movie, even if he didn't create any other font.

    Leslie Carbaga for having designed Magneto and several other winners. And for looking too much like Robert Downey with the Tony Stark porn-stache.

    Judith Sutcliffe has also contributed a lot of fresh faces, in particular Daly Text and Daly Hand, flawless for package design, especially food items.

    These are contemporaries and we should forget the late Herb Lubalin, Harman Zapf, Adrian Frutiger, and others in the latter half of the 20th century for their outstanding, visionary work.

    -g

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    I have Bee's Knees. What always bothered me was the decision to not combine the SC as lowercase with the regular. In fact, all one really needs to purchase (if they like the font) is to buy the small caps version. Leave the cap lock on and you get the all uppercase of the regular version.

    Mike

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    Mike, I'd venture that a lot of times if a character set has no lower case, and the creator decides to use 70% scaled uppercase as a substitute for Small Caps, it's a cheat.

    That sort of stuff might work for some headline and novelty fonts, but true Small Caps are smaller than the caps but also maintain the character stroke weight of the caps.

    When I buy Expert sets, I always look at the SC and the OsF (OldStyle figures) members. If the Small Caps is a retread of the caps, I hesitate buying the set.

    Heck, I know how to make fake Small Caps in Xara and with FontLab!

    My Best,

    Gary

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gare View Post
    Mike, I'd venture that a lot of times if a character set has no lower case, and the creator decides to use 70% scaled uppercase as a substitute for Small Caps, it's a cheat.

    That sort of stuff might work for some headline and novelty fonts, but true Small Caps are smaller than the caps but also maintain the character stroke weight of the caps.

    When I buy Expert sets, I always look at the SC and the OsF (OldStyle figures) members. If the Small Caps is a retread of the caps, I hesitate buying the set.

    Heck, I know how to make fake Small Caps in Xara and with FontLab! ...
    Absolutely. FWIW, I have attached a screen shot. As you mention, it is easy enough to fake them when needed. In this case, there is a little tweaking whoever made the SC version. Kerning is different. Weight is ever so different. But hey, as a headline font (no one would use this for anything but), the SC version supplies anything one would need.

    Black is the regular, red is the SC. I have scaled down the regular (black) to the same cap height as the SC version. Not enough difference to care about...which is why just buying the SC version saves a bit of mucking around to get smaller versions when one would want to differentiate between larger/smaller characters.

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    My take is it's not THAT good a typeface to care where there's a micro-millimeter difference here and there!

    And I used to hand-kern headlines for ads when I worked at an agency, and I hand-kern headlines today.

    You cannot depend on the font creator for your own needs and nuances.

    -g

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    Thanks for sharing this - always need more places to get fonts from!

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    Hi and welcome to TalkGraphics, LasuraLouise!

    Patronize the fellow if and when your budget allows. He made sounds as though TG might be able to get a discount in the future.

    My Best,

    Gary

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    Default Re: A new font resource

    Great place.

 

 

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