Tuesday, November 19, 2019

New styles for the fall (2)

The Jabced family is an attempt to do a standard, serif typeface family suitable for large blocks of text. It works but will never challenge the commonly-used faces for this purpose and its price reflects that. The recent revision added two new weights, semibold and extrabold.
 In addition, the update added several OpenType features.

Updating the Yngreena family added a light weight to both Yngreena and YngreenaAlt.  Yngreena and YngreenaAlt differ in about ten characters. Examples are the Y, g and t in the picture below. The former is more exuberant and the latter is more restrained and therefore better for text.
 Included with the Yngreena family is an extrabold striped version that I did long ago and included on myfonts. I took the opportunity of the revision to change it so it would better work in layers with the unstriped extrabold version.
Some but not all weights support OpenType inferiors, superiors, and fractions.

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