There are some OpenType functions in Fontin Sans not previously mentioned… Figures are tabular except “1″, but via Opentype options you can choose for an alternate, tabular “1″.
Hi, congratulations on your absolutely awesome fonts, they’re all full of character and unique features!
Question: Have you ever considered adding cyrillic glyphs or making cyrillic versions of your fonts? If yes, I’d love to be involved..
Thx! Yes, I have considered that. I’m thinking of making seperate versions of Fontin Sans. But first I have to find out how to do it… What chars and what codepages etc… If you want to help, you can mail me. (mail address can be found on my site).
Jos.
btw… Someone is working on Polish chars right now.
Excellent! Any new font you release would be welcome! Thanks a lot for producing and making freely available these beautiful and high quality typefaces!
Are you then planning to produce a Fontin Serif? a Tallys italic?
Regards!
Howard
I have some problems : the letters with accents will not always be correct link the ÇçÈèÀà Éé
using FONTIN and FONTONSANS. I am using a CSA keyboard on Apple G4, OSX 10.3.9
Hi – I love your work, and I have three letters on my list of BIG wishes. In Norway we use æ, ø and å in our alphabeth. Most font-designers dont include theese, but would you please?
This is absolutely fabulous!!! Fontin had quickly become one of my favorite fonts after discovering it. The inclusion of a sans-serif version is a treat! Keep up the great work on this family and the rest of your fonts. I seriously can’t thank you enough for all of them.
@ Howard – I’m now working on Diavlo, which will first come only in regular. Then I have to finish DeliciousX and then Fontin Semi & Serif… and then… and then… I’m not planning other weights or styles for Tallys btw.
@ Arven – Those characters are included in all my fonts…
@ Chris & David – Thanks! I always appreciate pdf’s of Fontin (Sans) in use…
I LOVE this font. I tried an earlier, pre-release edition that was emailed to me on request, and now that the whole family is available, I am so thrilled. I especiallu love the small caps. What a clean, classic-looking font that is quite unique. Delicious was a good starting place, but was a little sterile for the kinds of work I tend to do. Tallys is a really sweet body text font (reads smoothly and is naturally easy on the eyes) with Fontin Sans being a homerun headline font. Nice stuff all around. Thanks so much for giving this to all of us!
Thanks for the fonts, espesially fontin!!
Ive recently used it in a layout and it is beautiful very legible at small sizes.
Now I want to use it all the time. …. but I am trying very hard not to.
Thanks again!
thanks so much for those beautiful fonts and for sharing them for free!
I’m going to use the “Delicious”-font for the corporate design of a small elementary school, which is also my favorite font from your portfolio.
I love your fonts. By far the best quality free fonts I’ve ever come across. We selected Fontin Sans for our corporate font in the re-branding of the non-profit organization I work for. I was thrilled to find a font that fit our branding so well, and our Director of Finance was thrilled to find a font we didn’t have to pay for. Thanks so much for offering these gems. We’re forever grateful.
ps: As far as PDFs using Fontin Sans, there’s one on the donate page of the Hungry For Life site (Simple Giving Form), and there are soon to be more as I go through and re-brand all of our material.
Hi there,
I am a jeweller from Australia. I was wanting to download your font and having some words inscribed in some jewellery i am doing. I am not sure If this is ok or does this fall outside of its intended free use?
Thanks for making your fonts freely available. Fonts with small caps and old style figures, such as you are providing, are essentials. Keep up the fine work!
Just one small suggestion: The currency symbols might better match the hybrid old style figures if they more closely matched them in height.
Hi,
I’am french and I get a poor english. I do love yours fonts, FONTIN is the great for me.
I find a little problem, when i try converted word text, with fontin, in PDF, I can’t do it. Fontin appear like dods !
Where is the problem… ?
the second issue of my pdf magazine “DAIQ” is out. This time with a lot of Fontin Sans. I can’t (or better don’t want to) stop using your fonts – they are so squishy!
And there’s even a little bit of Museo Sans, including Versal-Eszett on the cover.
Thanks for the brilliant font Jos. I’ve just redesigned my blog about tea and found the font gave it a breath of fresh air. Sucks for all those people not using Firefox 3.5 or other browsers that like @font-face, but at least I get a lot of viewing pleasure myself:)
I just wanted to thank you SO much for your beautiful work and kind generosity. I love all of your fonts, and am currently using Fontin Sans on my own website, and it looks simply gorgeous. You are appreciated.
47 Comments
March 11, 2007 at 9:46 am
There are some OpenType functions in Fontin Sans not previously mentioned… Figures are tabular except “1″, but via Opentype options you can choose for an alternate, tabular “1″.
March 11, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Hi, congratulations on your absolutely awesome fonts, they’re all full of character and unique features!
Question: Have you ever considered adding cyrillic glyphs or making cyrillic versions of your fonts? If yes, I’d love to be involved..
Cheers,
Mike
March 12, 2007 at 8:02 am
Hi Mike,
Thx! Yes, I have considered that. I’m thinking of making seperate versions of Fontin Sans. But first I have to find out how to do it… What chars and what codepages etc… If you want to help, you can mail me. (mail address can be found on my site).
Jos.
btw… Someone is working on Polish chars right now.
March 16, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Excellent! Any new font you release would be welcome! Thanks a lot for producing and making freely available these beautiful and high quality typefaces!
Are you then planning to produce a Fontin Serif? a Tallys italic?
Regards!
Howard
March 18, 2007 at 1:56 am
I think it’s a good font – I’ve already used it on some of my newer designs, and I think it complements the original Fontin very well.
March 18, 2007 at 11:38 am
I have some problems : the letters with accents will not always be correct link the ÇçÈèÀà Éé
using FONTIN and FONTONSANS. I am using a CSA keyboard on Apple G4, OSX 10.3.9
March 18, 2007 at 2:55 pm
I’m sorry Ernest, but I don’t have a clue. The characters you mentioned are properly unicoded and mapped… Anyone?
March 20, 2007 at 3:12 am
Love it! Already using it:
http://www.popdada.com
Cris
March 27, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Hi – I love your work, and I have three letters on my list of BIG wishes. In Norway we use æ, ø and å in our alphabeth. Most font-designers dont include theese, but would you please?
March 27, 2007 at 11:45 pm
This is absolutely fabulous!!! Fontin had quickly become one of my favorite fonts after discovering it. The inclusion of a sans-serif version is a treat! Keep up the great work on this family and the rest of your fonts. I seriously can’t thank you enough for all of them.
March 28, 2007 at 7:11 am
@ Howard – I’m now working on Diavlo, which will first come only in regular. Then I have to finish DeliciousX and then Fontin Semi & Serif… and then… and then…
I’m not planning other weights or styles for Tallys btw.
@ Arven – Those characters are included in all my fonts…
@ Chris & David – Thanks! I always appreciate pdf’s of Fontin (Sans) in use…
March 29, 2007 at 3:22 am
Dude, your fonts are awesome. Thank you for giving them away!
April 4, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I LOVE this font. I tried an earlier, pre-release edition that was emailed to me on request, and now that the whole family is available, I am so thrilled. I especiallu love the small caps. What a clean, classic-looking font that is quite unique. Delicious was a good starting place, but was a little sterile for the kinds of work I tend to do. Tallys is a really sweet body text font (reads smoothly and is naturally easy on the eyes) with Fontin Sans being a homerun headline font. Nice stuff all around. Thanks so much for giving this to all of us!
April 5, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Really nice work!
Lekker bezig!
T.
April 14, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Hi, love the fonts!! Thanks for your generosity!
A very minor comment – Some of the font samples for different fonts (Fontin, Delicious, Tallys) are missing the letter Ee. No big deal.
April 30, 2007 at 1:31 am
THANK YOU, those are extremely beautiful fonts!!! (Thank you from Central America)
May 14, 2007 at 10:45 am
Thanks for the fonts, espesially fontin!!
Ive recently used it in a layout and it is beautiful very legible at small sizes.
Now I want to use it all the time. …. but I am trying very hard not to.
Thanks again!
May 14, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Thanks for letting me know. That is the best compliment any typographer can recieve!
LOL… Try resisting my fonts…
May 16, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Excelentes tipografías, muchíssimas gracias por distribuirlas libremente siendo de tal calidad.
Thanks!
May 20, 2007 at 8:27 pm
thanks so much for those beautiful fonts and for sharing them for free!
I’m going to use the “Delicious”-font for the corporate design of a small elementary school, which is also my favorite font from your portfolio.
greets
jan.
May 21, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Hi Jan,
Sound nice. Please mail a pdf if you like, when you’ve finished it.
Grz Jos.
June 20, 2007 at 4:29 pm
I love your fonts. By far the best quality free fonts I’ve ever come across. We selected Fontin Sans for our corporate font in the re-branding of the non-profit organization I work for. I was thrilled to find a font that fit our branding so well, and our Director of Finance was thrilled to find a font we didn’t have to pay for. Thanks so much for offering these gems. We’re forever grateful.
ps: As far as PDFs using Fontin Sans, there’s one on the donate page of the Hungry For Life site (Simple Giving Form), and there are soon to be more as I go through and re-brand all of our material.
July 11, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Beautiful faces. Real gems. And free.
You are very talented – and generous.
thanks!
July 15, 2007 at 11:19 am
@ Ryan: Nice to read that Fontin Sans does a great job.
@ billh: Thanks!
April 19, 2008 at 5:42 am
Hi there,
I am a jeweller from Australia. I was wanting to download your font and having some words inscribed in some jewellery i am doing. I am not sure If this is ok or does this fall outside of its intended free use?
April 19, 2008 at 8:24 am
Hi Simona, That’s perfectly OK. No problem.
May 10, 2008 at 1:36 am
Thanks for making your fonts freely available. Fonts with small caps and old style figures, such as you are providing, are essentials. Keep up the fine work!
Just one small suggestion: The currency symbols might better match the hybrid old style figures if they more closely matched them in height.
May 11, 2008 at 11:51 am
Very good point. I’ll put it on my to do list for the next release.
June 23, 2008 at 7:15 pm
390 point Fontin Sans on our wall! http://www.ryantoyota.com/hfl_vision.jpg
June 23, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Thanks for sharing Ryan. Looks great.
June 28, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Brilliant. I simply love your craftsmanship and work.
July 8, 2008 at 11:11 am
Hi,
I’am french and I get a poor english. I do love yours fonts, FONTIN is the great for me.
I find a little problem, when i try converted word text, with fontin, in PDF, I can’t do it. Fontin appear like dods !
Where is the problem… ?
October 1, 2008 at 1:26 am
Heya,
the second issue of my pdf magazine “DAIQ” is out. This time with a lot of Fontin Sans. I can’t (or better don’t want to) stop using your fonts – they are so squishy!
And there’s even a little bit of Museo Sans, including Versal-Eszett on the cover.
http://pyros.pixelmassaker.net/daiq/
October 4, 2008 at 11:28 am
Christian, thanks for posting the link. Just wondering… how do you pronounce “DAIQ”?
October 4, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Like “dyke” in english. I can record me saying it too, if you want. *grin*
October 12, 2008 at 8:41 am
Ah … Nice find
March 26, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Thanks, looks very nice. What a surprize!
March 27, 2009 at 10:45 am
Thanks!
June 20, 2009 at 4:08 am
Hello!
I’m from South Korea
ALL of your fonts are EXTREMELY GOOOOOOOOOD
I’m lovin it!!
thanks for making and sharing!!!
July 17, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I just wanted to let you know that Fontin Sans is the official typeface for the logos of the following open source software communities:
GeoServer ( http://geoserver.org )
GeoWebCache ( http://geowebcache.org )
GeoExt ( http://geoext.org )
Thanks for creating and sharing these excellent typefaces!
July 18, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Very nice! Thanks for letting me know.
August 26, 2009 at 12:51 am
Just found you. Nice fonts! Unfortunately some programs don’t yet use OTF, like OpenOffice. Is TTF available or easy to export?
Thanks,
Lance
August 28, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Thanks, lance. Unfortunately TTF is not available. For my free fonts (that can be downloaded from my site) it is allowed to do a conversion yourself.
September 6, 2009 at 3:12 am
Thanks for the brilliant font Jos. I’ve just redesigned my blog about tea and found the font gave it a breath of fresh air. Sucks for all those people not using Firefox 3.5 or other browsers that like @font-face, but at least I get a lot of viewing pleasure myself:)
September 10, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
November 15, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I just wanted to thank you SO much for your beautiful work and kind generosity. I love all of your fonts, and am currently using Fontin Sans on my own website, and it looks simply gorgeous. You are appreciated.
November 26, 2009 at 9:21 am
Thanks a lot!