Because of the many requests for a lowercase of MUSEO I decided to have another go at it. I started with the heaviest (900) weight to see if I could make it work. I think it looks beautiful … so MUSEO will get it’s lowercase. The only drawback is that it’s gonna take me longer to finish it.
45 Comments
February 3, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Wonderful! Is there *anything* we can do to make it happen earlier?
February 3, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Thanks for the offer
I wish you could, but I promise to make as much haste as I can without making compromises.
February 3, 2008 at 1:50 pm
It’s a beauty already, mate! Already see it as h3 sIFR on my new project with text-transform: lowercase
February 3, 2008 at 5:45 pm
hi. how to get/purchase/download this font? looks very nice.
February 3, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Thanks. When MUSEO is finished it will be released on MyFonts.com
Three weights will be free and two (the lightest and heaviest weight) will be payed. The payed weights will cost about $10 to $15 each.
@ Manuel: That would be nice
February 3, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Jos, that “three for free and two for pay” is an interesting idea. I like that.
February 3, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Lowercase is good. I’m the kind of person who is more likely to use all lower than all upper. Uppers are harder to read.
I like the c and the e, by which I mean that I had to think about them and decided I liked them. Most of other letters look great. The exception, g, looks just a little like it will tip to the left; lengthening the descender seems to me to balance it out: http://pics.livejournal.com/chemoelectric/pic/000f8f7q which I think I like better, though I’m not certain.
February 3, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Hi Barry, thanks for commenting! I’ll certainly take your g thoughts in consideration … interesting. I’ve posted a new image with al the LC’s.
Manuel, I’ll hope I can offer this ‘construction’ more often with the new fonts that I’m planning. Glad you like it.
February 4, 2008 at 1:25 am
The heaviest weight probably will be the best, I think. I look forward to seeing Museo on the Starlets page.
February 4, 2008 at 1:48 am
Wow … Starlets … that’s a lot of confidence
That would be truly great. I myself grew rather attached to the 100 weight. The thing that started it all. But I do like 900. Both are my ‘working weights’. The other three will derive from these parents.
February 4, 2008 at 11:29 am
will it contain Central European Latin-based diacritics?
February 4, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Yes. It will support the same languages as (the new) Diavlo.
February 5, 2008 at 12:13 am
“Jos, that “three for free and two for pay” is an interesting idea. I like that.”
I concur. That’s a great idea.
February 9, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Great. I am delighted you are releasing Museo in lower case. I will definitely be buying that. Great work. Without wanting to seem too impatient, when exactly will all the weights be available for download? Thanks
February 9, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Hi David, Thanks. There’s still a lot to be done. I’ve completed the first draft of the lowercase (both 100 and 900). Some other characters need to be adjusted to work also with lowercase. Then there’s spacing and kerning that still need to be done. Given the fact that it’s really busy at (my regular) work and also at home I can’t tell when exactly MUSEO will be ready, but I can promise that I spend every free moment now on finishing it as soon as possible.
February 10, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Thanks. Just wondering that’s all. I wouldn’t like you to be feeling under too much pressure. But if Museo wasn’t so damn nice I wouldn’t be bugging you. I look forward to the finished versions. Keep up the good work.
February 10, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Hi,
really fresh! And quiet different.
Please end it as soon as you can.
We’ll stand for it to aply in a future design. Sure!!
February 13, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Man, you really can feel typography. You are an artist! I admire your work.
February 14, 2008 at 8:43 am
I’m really pleased that you all like it all this much. Working on MUSEO with all this positive feedback doesn’t feel like a pressure. Just wish I had more time
February 15, 2008 at 2:25 pm
exljbris- Can ask what software you are using to create these fonts? I am just curious because I am interested in creating my own.
February 16, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Wauw, I like! Can’t wait to play around with this one.
cya mate
February 17, 2008 at 1:43 am
Man, I just wanted to thank you so much for supplying these great quality fonts for free. They are all beautiful and some like Diavlo are really becoming famous
Thanks again and keep up the good work!
Ale
February 18, 2008 at 10:54 pm
great!
February 18, 2008 at 11:07 pm
@ thepixelpusher: I use FontLab but that might be too expensive. You can also take a look (google) at FontForge (free) or TypeTool (FontLab’s little brother wich will cost you $99).
@ Roel: Nice of you to drop by
cya soon!
@ Ale: You’re very welcome. The new Diavlo has already been dowloaded more than 20.000 times, so it must be showing up somewhere
@ P.J.: Thx!
February 19, 2008 at 12:41 am
well I think it is fabulous and wish it was finished now it would be perfect for the project I am currently doing – I’ll just have to make do with one of your other great fonts! cheers
February 19, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Totally dig it. Looking forward to making that purchase!
February 19, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Jos,
Museo is indeed GREAT to work with.
Are the figures still the same as the ones I used?
I feel the 8 could be improved a bit to make it fit more with the rest.
There’s a certain “curve” also at the serifs that could be used with the 8 as well. http://www.typovar.nl/images/mus28.gif
Arjen
February 19, 2008 at 9:41 pm
@ leanne: Thanks. I also wish it was finished
@ Stormwater: Thanks for the confidence. Just keep an eye on this blog.
@ Arjen: Everything gets into place right now. I’ve rounded up the quest for the definitive character shapes and most of the glyphs had minor or major changes (also the numerals). I’ve abanoned the angled slab serif on all characters. But I’ll still have to consider some tweaking because of the influence of spacing and kerning. I’ll post some new images soon. Thx!
March 4, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Stumbled on the site, wonderful font. can’t wait to see it.
March 4, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Added a new (large) image. Almost there …
March 5, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I would say, MUSEO is a masterpiece, seriously!
Im amazed of it.
Congratulations for your incredible work done.
wanna ask if you’re planning a cyrillic glyphs for museo (yes, i know its a veeery slow process:-)
good luck to you.
March 6, 2008 at 8:18 am
Thanks Vasil. I have no plans for a cyrillic version (still struggeling with Anivers cyrillic), but for MUSEO I’ve increased language support.
The following languages will be supported: Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic (old orthography), German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Sami, Serbian (Latin), Sorbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh and also Esperanto.
March 7, 2008 at 12:37 am
i’m no font designer, just a collector, but this typeface adds to some of the most beautiful typefaces i’ve seen out there, which are all from your collection! this is just beautiful, really.
March 10, 2008 at 12:38 am
Thank you Lynne. Almost there …
March 11, 2008 at 8:38 am
MUSEO is out
http://exljbris.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/museo-is-out/
March 11, 2008 at 9:16 am
Worth the wait (and the price!). Thankyou for such beautiful work.
March 15, 2008 at 5:32 am
This is the first thing I noticed when I saw on Smashing that it had been released… Then I thought, “So how did Jos deal with the versal-eszett?” So now I have to dig back through your posts and comments to find that!
But the lowercase is as beautiful as the caps. Simply beautiful.
So you love the capital U? I love a capital J with a very long (and perhaps wide) descender. I also like lowercase f in an italic that is like the “f with hook” (ƒ or ⌘F on Mac).
March 15, 2008 at 9:57 am
Ah the eszett thing …
Glad you like it.
I had to declare my love for ‘U’ because that glyph lead me to the creation of MUSEO. I’m also fond of the italic f. Do’nt you mean florin (option-f) by “f with hook”?
March 21, 2008 at 9:49 am
Yes, ⌥F. Interestingly, in the US-Extended keyboard on Mac, ⌥↑. then F (Combining hook with lowercase F) produces the same glyph, at least visibly. Which is why I say “f with hook.” In looking at the Unicode properties, though, I see the confusion — the formal name is “Latin small letter F with hook,” but the alternate names include “script f,” “function symbol,” “used as abbreviation convention for folder,” and, yes, “Florin currency symbol (Netherlands).”
March 28, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Great Job Typo ! I like ur style !
April 17, 2008 at 11:09 am
Any plans to introduce italics in the font? Or am I missing something?
April 17, 2008 at 11:11 am
PS. It is a really great font!!! Congratulations!
April 18, 2008 at 6:31 am
I really love this font. I just bought it a few days ago, really good stuff. I read your interview on ilovetypography.com, Museo Sans looks very nice. I can’t wait for that. Keep up the hard work and dedication.
April 18, 2008 at 8:50 am
Heey! This is awesome! :-O
April 18, 2008 at 9:27 am
Thanks Chris. I’ve no plans for a Museo italic at the moment.
@ Robert: Thanks for your support! Glad you can’t wait for Museo Sans
@ Madeo: Thx!
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