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Crimson Text was born after years of discontent with the choice of free text typefaces. Sure, there are some good ones. But a friendly, classical old-style font for books, with a range of weights, ligatures, small caps, and all those nice subtleties? Open that old tome from the bookshelf over the fireplace, stick your nose into the pages and smell the ink, the glue and the immortality of the printed letters … This is what Crimson Text should smell like. (via aldusleaf.org)

Crimson Text was born after years of discontent with the choice of free text typefaces.

Sure, there are some good ones. But a friendly, classical old-style font for books, with a range of weights, ligatures, small caps, and all those nice subtleties? Open that old tome from the bookshelf over the fireplace, stick your nose into the pages and smell the ink, the glue and the immortality of the printed letters …

This is what Crimson Text should smell like.

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Some lovely ideas here. (via Creative Nerds)

Some lovely ideas here. (via Creative Nerds)

Geronimo! Adventures in Space and Type: Part 3 

Another late night progress report for ‘my’ Doctor Who font. Mostly subtle tweaks, but these usually take the longest. There’s still a lot I’m not keen on, in Particular the V. Both Y’s are ugly, but I’m fairly happy with the current G and Q situation.
I’m open to constructive criticisms and suggestions at this point.

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Geronimo! Adventures in Space and Type: Part 2 

Progress report for day two of the ‘Geronimo!’ Doctor Who font experiment. Most of it is basically there, but I’m pretty unhappy with some of the details. Nothing like kerning has even been attempted here, this is literally just so I can see how the whole alphabet looks.

Now I need to work on how to make the difficult characters (B, G, Q, Y, V) work, and what, if anything, I can do to improve the bland characters (E, F, S, Z).

I still plan to do numbers and some of the more essential special characters(“, &, #, ~, @, +, - and parentheses).

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Geronimo! Adventures in Space and Type: Part 1 

This evening I’ve been playing around in Inkskape, trying to reproduce the typeface used in the new Doctor Who logo. If I finish it, I’ll set it free on the internet for the Whovians to play with. I picked it mostly because it’s a nice simple design. I plan to call the font ‘Geronimo’.
On closer inspection, I’ve started to take a strong dislike to this new logo. I find the ‘DW’ TARDIS shape to be huge and ugly, but even the letters themselves seem to have some funny issues. Look at the third slide attached to this post, or go and find a larger version of this image on the BBC site. The H’s right leg is thicker, and the O is not symmetrical vertically! The W is just so ugly I’m reluctant to draw it, and I have no idea why they made the R like they did.

Anyway, I’m going to be faithful to what they’ve done here, but I’ll probably build in an alternate character set with my own ‘improvements’.

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