Open Source Font Coming Up ;)

Hey there, just thought I’d post a very early look of what my upcoming Navarro Svizzera font looks like :stuck_out_tongue: … As you can see hinting around D, T, and Y still needs to be fixed but I’m far from finished as is obvious :wink:

http://www40.brinkster.com/dylansmrjones/

It’s looking not so bad, huh :stuck_out_tongue:

Mr.Jones wrote:
Hey there, just thought I'd post a very early look of what my upcoming Navarro Svizzera font looks like :p .. As you can see hinting around D, T, and Y still needs to be fixed but I'm far from finished as is obvious ;)

http://www40.brinkster.com/dylansmrjones/

It’s looking not so bad, huh :stuck_out_tongue:

It’s absolutely horrible…

the photo that is. :twisted:

euan wrote:
It's absolutely horrible....

the photo that is. :twisted:

Yeah, I know. The Lord had a bad hairday when giving me the look I’ve got :stuck_out_tongue:

But the font is not that bad at least… though Windoze seems to have problems hinting *.OTF-fonts correctly - but then… I dont’ really use windoze for any serious stuff … just too bloody unstable…

Just have to trace the missing 1040 characters before my font is MES-2 and WGL4 compliant :stuck_out_tongue:

Mr.Jones wrote:
Yeah, I know. The Lord had a bad hairday when giving me the look I've got :P

LOL, you should use it for your avatar anyway :wink:

Very nice font.

The font seems nice enough, although I find the name rather strange (not that strange names are not common for fonts). Does it mean something in Danish?

shadow wrote:
The font seems nice enough, although I find the name rather strange (not that strange names are not common for fonts). Does it mean something in Danish?

Heh… no, not in danish. However in italian it does :wink:

Svizzera is the italian name for Switzerland and is named so because Navarro Svizzera is a sans serif-font (without feet). The most wellknown sans serif-font is Helvetica (meaning Switzerland - in latin), other sans serif - fonts are named Arial (we know that one) and Switzerland, Suisse and so on… So I wanted to be original and chose Svizzera because no sans serif-font has that name :stuck_out_tongue:

Navarro is a prefix I’m using for all of my fonts. I think it was a kingdom in Spain for like 800-1000 years ago, but I’m not sure. I just like the sound of it :lol: