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Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio (shkspr.mobi)

submitted 1 year ago by edent@open-source.social to c/typography@lemmy.ca

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I've built a new font! Thoughts and feedback on my approach very welcome.

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[–] pglpm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So cool! I was wondering where the fonts were, but now I've found them on your GitHub repo.

One question/curiosity: is the goal to have a font that looks "consumed by time"? or a font that should look as much as possible as in its original time? I ask this because I notice some final letters have small "ink holes", they aren't fully filled.

[–] edent@open-source.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The answer is... I don't know :-) Maybe both? What do you think would be best?

[–] pglpm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, difficult, they are two different and incomparable concepts :) As they are now, I think the fonts reach the first goal: give the appearance of an old and used book. Which is cool.

For the second goal maybe there's no need to go to such lengths as you did, I imagine pictures of how those fonts looked in their time maybe exist(?).