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Grandia and Gandhara online in PDF

Grandia in fine print.

Grandia in fine print.

This post marks the first anniversary of my blog and the end of my year at the University of Reading, where I furthered my education in typeface design via their Masters degree program. It has been a good year and I learned much more than I could have anticipated. To view the results of my work and my classmates’, you can visit typefacedesign.org and view PDF specimens of each of the typefaces, including a group specimen that we had printed up. If 1) you are interested in a copy, and 2) I know who you are, I just might see that you get a copy if you ask very nicely.
Have a look at Grandia and Gandhara and please leave any comments you have on the typefaces here. Thanks for having a look!

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Thanks Again MyFonts

Back in MyFonts news again. I’m always giddy to get a mention of something that I worked on. This time it was for LTC Italian Old Style, mentioned in this month’s Rising Stars newsletter. I’m glad that the newsletter features a new text face each month as most of the rest of the featured faces are decorative display faces. Not that there’s anything wrong with display faces, but I think that a nice serif face with a bit of character can be quite a nice change from all the fancy and frilly stuff once in a while. In fact, this is why I digitized a light (display) weight of Italian Old Style in addition to the regular (text) weight.

Shameless Self-(re)Promotion

I was rather pleased to see a mention of Underground Pro in this month’s Rising Stars newsletter from MyFonts.com. It was good to finally see a some constructive comments on the type family rather than just a regurgitation of the general press release that was sent out when Underground was first released. I also think the newsletter’s usage of the type for their font sample (shown in thumbnail above) has been the best I have seen to show off some of the features of the font system. I need to find out who is responsible for the newsletter so I can send him (or her) an nice, big, warm “thank you!”

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