Because Fontin is a reasonable succes I’ve desided to accompany it with a sans serif version: Fontin Sans. I’m also thinking about making a serifed version… Any remarks? Please let me know!
March 10, 2007...10:06 am
Fontin Serif
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March 18, 2007 at 1:54 am
I think that the serifed version of Fontin would be quite good: I enjoy the entire Fontin family that has been made so far and I use them very frequently.
March 30, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Please, _please_, make the serifed version!
April 1, 2007 at 2:34 pm
One vote noted
April 1, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Yeah, count me in for that one.
April 1, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Well that’s two then… 998 to go…
April 2, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Serifed sounds awesome! I love the fontin family. One vote from me.
May 27, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Found your site the other day, and finally trialled your fonts in some documents tonight. Wow, they are excellent. Regular Fontin is especially impressive – very pleasing to the eye, both formal and warm at the same time, and nice and readable on-screen. Great work!
June 9, 2007 at 9:56 pm
I looks gorgeous.
June 11, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Thanks! I’ll post some new screens soon.
July 8, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Your fonts are quite lovely. I look forward to seeing your future work.
I, too, vote in favor of the full serif.
July 18, 2007 at 11:26 am
Amazing work. Among the best free stuff out there (one league with Storm’s Lido, for example). Please get the work on the serifed Fontin going!
August 3, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Please, please, please. (I may have copied that from James Brown.) I’ve read an article from a link on Luc Devroye’s site where a mouthpiece for one of the commercial font foundries says that ALL freeware fonts are either pirated or rubbish. Make him eat his words.
August 14, 2007 at 5:00 am
+1 vote. Those serifs would put it up in the ranks of the most natural and readable typefaces ever made. I would have no qualms about setting a book in such a font.
Thanks for bringing such thorough quality to the “free world”.
October 9, 2007 at 5:05 am
Um … Yes yes YES! (But I’d really like to see the new DeliciousX first, please??) There’s hardly a more elegant serif available today than the sample you’ve posted. Only Goudy Oldstyle [sample text] and Kinesis [sample text] come even close to this for me in terms of what I actually like and will use for myself. I’m not a serif person.
One thing though: I don’t know whether it’s intentionally tracked out or just has loose kerning, but the sample you posted doesn’t work well for display text runs. It would definitely need to be tightened for display. As a person who doesn’t like serifs, when I use them it’s usually for that purpose with a sans body (Cronos, Frutiger, Fontin
).
I see where merely tracking this in for display though (as a font user) would cause problems: Look at the ‘ri’ in “Serif”. It almost begs to be a ligature.
As usual, Jos, your subtle style shows through, even with this serif face: the slightly chiseled look, the roundness of the question mark, and even the shape of the serifs — they appear concave, but it’s all an illusion — it’s all yours. I love it.
I can see Fontin turning into “Stone for the 21st Century.”
October 9, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I’m working on different typefaces these days. On DeliciousX as well as Fontin Serif
Kerning and spacing still have to be done on F-Srf. Most charcters too. Maybe I’ve got a commission for an exclusive corp. id. font based on Anivers (not sure yet)… but when that’s clear, some favorites have to be rearranged…
I’ll post a pdf of Fontin Serif (regular) soon… and of course I hope it will turn into stone
October 10, 2007 at 9:00 pm
FONTIN SERIF looks very nice indeed and compliments Fontin (trasitional) and Fontin Sans to make a complete, complementary set. I like it.
October 11, 2007 at 3:55 am
Commissions always help pay the bills, but they’re the worst work if you don’t like what you’re doing. I think you’re well on your way to forging new faces for a new millennium. Type is dead? Not as long as you’re rolling out such fine specimens.
October 14, 2007 at 10:09 am
October 25, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Fontin Serif is a brilliant idea. i love FontinSans and have had multiple uses for it already, and a serif version would be beautiful. You have a masterful hand… keep it up, you’re amazing.
October 27, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Thanks for these generous compliments. I still feel very humble in my efforts to do this thing that I like most
For those interested: I’ve opened a topic on Typophile (with screens and the pdf’s).
November 7, 2007 at 10:22 pm
That would make a very nice serif. You’ve got some really good work here. I look forward to trying these out!
November 9, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Muy buen material. Y una gran ayuda el que sea de uso libre.
Felicitaciones..!
November 11, 2007 at 11:35 pm
i just downloaded that font… as soon as i use it expect a donation!
December 9, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Beautiful. The Family would be complete…
January 5, 2008 at 10:33 pm
These are really nice fonts. But would be even better if they covered latin5 characters too. Missing Ç,ğ,Ğ,ı,İ,ş,Ş,Ü characters make them hard to use.
January 8, 2008 at 7:20 pm
If Fontin Serif turns out as good as I think it will, it might overtake Gentium as my all-time favorite font (especially since Gentium has no sans-serif version). I can’t wait to try it out!
January 14, 2008 at 10:02 am
@ Ony Mouse: Those characters are in Diavlo and Anivers and will also be in Fontin Serif.
@ Estebando: That would be nice. I’m working really hard on MUSEO at the moment. I expect Fontin Serif to be released this year.
January 15, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Love it!
January 24, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Is there any chance we could get a preliminary version to tinker around with?
January 28, 2008 at 6:30 pm
When time is due I’ll be more than happy to, but for now it’s a bit too premature.
January 29, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Oh, Sherif would be awesome.
February 8, 2008 at 4:08 am
Thank you for sharing the fruits of your hard work with us.
I agree with Danny, make the snobby critics of free fonts eat their words. To find such high quality OpenType fonts for free is inspiring.
February 9, 2008 at 10:36 pm
You’re welcome Tarobot. It’s indeed not very wise to say that “ALL freeware fonts are either pirated or rubbish” It reminds me of the reactions of the music industry moguls, not prepared of the changes that were so inevitable.
February 13, 2008 at 2:50 am
Great fonts! I came across your site following a mention from garland Drupal theme’s author. Looking forward to use them in my site re-design.
Oh yeah, my vote too
ciao…
February 14, 2008 at 8:47 am
Noted
February 28, 2008 at 3:57 pm
the serif version just looks great in the current state!!! it would be perfect when you’ve finished the fontin series
thanks very much in advance!
March 13, 2008 at 8:44 pm
What a great fonts! Just bought Museo, and *really* looking forward to Fontin Serif … keep up the GREAT work!
March 13, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Thanks very much Marc!
March 15, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Heck yes. This is what I wanted when I first saw Fontin.
March 16, 2008 at 4:02 am
It’s now been more than one year! I’m always on the search for great fonts, and I can’t wait for Fontin Serif!
March 16, 2008 at 10:16 am
estebandido, you should come work for me for free, so we can speed things up. Just kidding
March 21, 2008 at 2:15 pm
me vote!
April 19, 2008 at 4:38 am
If only I had that kind of time!
April 19, 2008 at 8:23 am
May 16, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Can you please include the superscript numerals? I’m using Fontin for my résumé, & I need to drop to Fontin Sans for one character in the name of the “S*ProCom² Research Center”.
Thanks for the fonts!
May 19, 2008 at 5:57 pm
This is a gorgeous, wonderful, versatile font! I’ve been using it a lot since you so generously released it. A couple weeks ago, however, it suddenly stopped working. I’ve deleted all instances of it, reinstalled, to no avail. It’s displaying several characters incorrectly in InDesign. A space becomes a “D”, an exclamation becomes an “x” and so forth (even in the Glyphs palette). I would just move on to another font, except it’s used in many finished documents that I still need to access and edit.
I was wondering if you’d heard anything similar, or if it’s just me. I’ve never seen anything like this with other fonts. I would be very sad to give this one up but I just can’t figure it out. It not be the font at all, because it seems to work in Word but not InDesign. But maybe you’ve heard similar stories.
Thanks for any advice! And of course, thank you for the wonderful fonts.
May 19, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Hi Cassie. I guess you mean Fontin and not Fontin serif because that one hasn’t been released yet.
That said … I’m no computer expert. I do test my fonts on different programms and platforms till everything is ok. Maybe it’s a font cache problem, but (if it is) I don’t know how to solve it.
Maybe someone else can help … anyone?
May 19, 2008 at 7:09 pm
It turns out it was a font cache issue. Just after posting this comment I went back to check on a message I’d posted to the Adobe Forums, and it was recommended that I try Font Finagler or another font cache cleaner. I’d tried a similar step with my font program, but this time it did the trick!
And yes, I meant Fontin Sans, not Serif. And I’m SO glad I can use it again!
May 19, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Hee … my guess was right. Glad you solved it … Back to work
September 16, 2009 at 2:59 am
JosB!
Will you be getting back to Fontin Serif now? I love all that you do, but the Fontin Serif looks snazzy to me!
September 17, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I haven’t forgotten about Fontin Serif
It’s in the design pipeline after Calluna Sans and Calluna Slab serif