A new font editor

There is a new font editor available, and what makes this one different is it is on-line and browser-based. I have not tried it and may not because it only outputs TrueType fonts. See it at fontark.net.

Texas Style Beef Brisket

A food vendor at a local festival had the signage below. One of them even knew the name of the font.

An Auldroon sighting

I found a book at the book sale of my local library that used the font Auldroon for its cover:

It is a mystery novel.

A Cuthbert sighting

I found this picture of Facebook and immediately recognized a familiar typeface. It is Cuthbert.

Working on font posters

For the past couple months I have been working on font posters for myfonts.com.

There are two types of images that myfonts recommends to help display a typeface. One is a font flag, which originally was supposed to be 200 by 200 pixels but now, because of retina displays, should be 400 by 400 pixels. The other type is a font poster, a larger image that is twice as wide as tall. Originally they were supposed to be 720 by 360 pixels, but now the recommended size is 1440 by 720.

My toolbox for creating these images is rather limited, but I have been able to supply at least one for over 80% of my font families. One of my favorites is below, a display for an almost illegible set of typefaces called Flag Day.