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skosch / Crimson

The Crimson Text typeface
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Reproducible build process #58

Open skosch opened 7 years ago

skosch commented 7 years ago

I am not an expert on font production. I don't know how fonts (should) behave across different browsers, applications and OS, let alone what users' requirements are regarding OpenType features, hinting, subsetting, webfonts, etc.

I would like to figure out a process (build script?) to take care of the above, in order to help me and others take care of the 30+ issues that have accumulated on this repo.

@katef, you have written a Makefile, and I would love to get your input. @adrientetar and @khaledhosny, you guys have been so helpful in the past – if you know of any resources on the current best practices, I would be grateful if you could point me to them.

Thank you!

Fonthausen commented 6 years ago

@davelab6 Any thoughts on the Greek and Cyrillic for CT and CP ? If so, with or without smallcaps counterparts ?

Fonthausen commented 6 years ago

This week I started working on Crimson Text, a Garamond inspired text typeface. Crimson Text (CT) is a project from Sebastian Kosch.

The last few days the Google team, Kosch and I have spoken on what could be done on CT. Since the last release, Kosch has been working on another version of Crimson, Crimson Prime (CP). (The outlines of the new CP are being used in Amiri on GF.) CP is more sharp and somewhat smoother and it is according to Kosch developed as a more contemporary version of CT.

We have discussed how the two versions relate to each other and where they differ. Would it be an option to develop CP as a standalone project or not ? Crucial is that they should differ enough in design and purpose.

On GitHub I made a list of issues I think are needed to take CT to the next level. We also agreed on making a much wider range of weights to enable CT to become a versatile and very usable typographic tool. With this amount of intended work in the back of our head, we discussed if it might also be an idea to take the best from both designs, CT and CP, and merge them it into one strong authoritative family.

This is the first step I will undertake this week. I will work on the letters of the word Adhesion of Hamburgerfonts and make a deck where everything is compared and explained. This will give a good insight on the initial part of the development.

davelab6 commented 6 years ago

Thank you for the summary Jacques. For now let's focus on Latin only and deal with the other scripts later

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 5:42 AM Jacques Le Bailly notifications@github.com wrote:

This week I started working on Crimson Text, a Garamond inspired text typeface. Crimson Text (CT) is a project from Sebastian Kosch.

The last few days the Google team, Kosch and I have spoken on what could be done on CT. Since the last release, Kosch has been working on another version of Crimson, Crimson Prime (CP). (The outlines of the new CP are being used in Amiri on GF.) CP is more sharp and somewhat smoother and it is according to Kosch developed as a more contemporary version of CT.

We have discussed how the two versions relate to each other and where they differ. Would it be an option to develop CP as a standalone project or not ? Crucial is that they should differ enough in design and purpose.

On GitHub I made a list of issues I think are needed to take CT to the next level. We also agreed on making a much wider range of weights to enable CT to become a versatile and very usable typographic tool. With this amount of intended work in the back of our head, we discussed if it might also be an idea to take the best from both designs, CT and CP, and merge them it into one strong authoritative family.

This is the first step I will undertake this week. I will work on the letters of the word Adhesion of Hamburgerfonts and make a deck where everything is compared and explained. This will give a good insight on the initial part of the development.

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Fonthausen commented 6 years ago

This week I have been working on the draft for the new version of Crimson. In the link below you will find my deck (presentation) with a description of my first draft.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1owMuJz3xwXSvB_3cevZcjniWFaS-iL4qgvqlYxiI7Pk/edit?usp=sharing

xenocrat commented 6 years ago

Thank you for sharing this. It's interesting to see this glimpse into your process!

Fonthausen commented 6 years ago

@xenocrat You are very welcome !

Here you can find an even more elaborate step by step project explanation: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/googlefonts-discuss/lZGJqeigS3I

xenocrat commented 5 years ago

I have been keeping a close watch on the progress of Crimson Pro these past months. Now the work is done, this seems like an appropriate time and as good a place as anywhere to say a huge thank you to @Fonthausen, @davelab6, and @skosch. Jacques, I am absolutely thrilled with what you have done to Sebastian's lovely "Frankenstein" creation. Crimson Pro is a gorgeous typeface. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication.

Fonthausen commented 5 years ago

Hi Daniel ! Thank you very much for your nice compliments. It feels like a nice reward after the energy we put in the project.

I took the liberty of looking on your website and saw you are using Crimson Pro ! The design is minimalistic and therefore one can concentrate on the content of your articles. I like it very much and am happy that Crimson was the type of your choice. To me it feels like a proof of concept, readability and character without disturbing the reader. Thanks.

I haven't had the time to read all your articles, but I certainly will try ! :)

skosch commented 5 years ago

Wow, that looks great indeed. Those italics are so. nice.

xenocrat commented 5 years ago

Hello @skosch and @davelab6. Can you say when Crimson Pro will be published on Google Fonts? It was merged into the GF repo in January but it hasn't yet appeared on the website.

thekalinga commented 5 years ago

Appreciate if someone can help w.r.t @xenocrat question. Thanks!

xenocrat commented 5 years ago

Today I noticed that Crimson Pro has been published on Google Fonts. Yay!