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Add johnston/paddington #478

Open Threadnaught opened 7 years ago

Threadnaught commented 7 years ago

Public domain digitization of Johnston typeface - http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/moye/index.htm (near bottom)

davelab6 commented 7 years ago

@Threadnaught thanks for suggesting this, Patrick!

alan-rodriguez commented 6 years ago

The original link appears to no longer be available, but the Paddington typeface can still be downloaded here: http://web.archive.org/web/20160621094123if_/http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/moye/paddington.zip

978bobs commented 2 years ago

LICENSE INFO I love this font. just included it in my website. found this link which appears to have been penned by the designer Stephen Moye https://1001fontsfree.com/view_file/7709/UGFkZGluZ3Rvbi50eHQ=/paddington.txt

Here is the text copied.....

Greetings Font Fiends:

Here is something new for you to play with. 'Paddington' is a translation of a sans serif design drawn by Edward Johnston for London Transport in 1918. It is generally considered to be the first modern sans serif design. Some comments about this translation are in order:

  1. Current version number: 1.1 (February 1997)

  2. No, Martha, these aren't complete character sets. I created these faces for a project, used them, polished them up a bit, and now they're yours. I may or may not extend the character sets, based on the amount of whining and sniveling that I receive. But be very nice to me or I may just tell you to buzz off.

  3. The 'plain' font is based very closely on the original, but see

    4 below. The italic, demibold, demibold italic, small caps and

    demibold small caps are my own invention. If you don't like them, don't use them.

  4. I have very slightly (<10%) beefed-up the vertical stems and vertical bits of curved strokes -- this assures optically consistent strokes.

  5. Some of the characters are of my own invention:

the commercial 'at' sign (needed for e-mail addresses, alas) the text, or lowercase, numerals the italic lowercase a and f the straight-back y the $ and � signs the diacritical marks the euro monetary symbol

  1. These fonts exist in Mac Type-1 format only. I have no interest whatsoever in converting them to PC, Amiga, or Unix formats -- for those, and anything else, you're on your own.

  2. I am releasing these typefaces as freeware. That's right: You don't have to pay me. I am hoping, not in vain, I trust, that you have a conscience and will not use or appropriate these typefaces to your use without giving some credit where it is due. In all events, the notice contained in the fonts must remain intact.

  3. Although I have written a book about Fontographer and use it extensively, I found it necessary to finish up these fonts in FontStudio. Fontographer's hinting is, well, execrable. I was able to obtain effective automatic hinting from FontStudio that Fontographer could not equal, even with a little hand-tuning of the hints. Shocking. More shocking is that Adobe has bought Ares (who developed FontStudio) and Adobe, apparently has no plans to do anything with the program. Depressing.

Cheers.

Stephen Moye, Stephen_Moye@brown.edu

chrissimpkins commented 11 months ago

We are missing sources and this family does not have the full Latin kernel glyph set.

978bobs commented 11 months ago

I have a copy that i've modified slightly in Fontlab.

978bobs commented 11 months ago

But yeah there are limited glyphs, but they do look great. It is one of the more popular ones for engravings.