Museo Sans is based on the well-known Museo. It is a sturdy, low contrast, geometric, highly legible sans serif typeface very well suited for any display and text use. Two fonts (500 & 500 italic) are absolutely free.
Get it at MyFonts.com | Visit my Museo Sans page
I’ve started working on the italics of Calluna. These are just first impressions … so everything is subject to change at the moment and of course spacing is very very rough.
+++ update :: August 17th +++
A few months ago I discovered this utterly useful free python script that shifts control points proportionally with it’s anchor points. I can’t think of editing contours without it anymore. You can find the Interpolated Nudge script *here*.
(image courtesy of BetaType/Christian Robertson)
“The idea is pretty simple. Wouldn’t it be nice to move a node while keeping the tension in the curve? When tweeking, bolding and making fonts wider, I prefer to use the keyboard to ‘nudge’ the points around. It makes it easy to keep track of measurements, to make sure that the new stroke weight/character widths are consistent.” – Christian Robertson
Because of hitting the #1 spot on the MyFonts Starlets list (just like Museo) Anivers is featured in the July newsletter of MyFonts.
Get it at MyFonts.com | Visit the Fertigo Pro page
Fertigo has undergone a major update and is now called Fertigo Pro.
Important changes are:
+ Extended language support (more than 150 glyphs added)*
+ Improved glyph shapes
+ Ten ornaments/dingbats added
+ improved metrics and kerning
*Languages now (fully) supported:
Latin / Central European / Croatian / Romanian / Icelandic / Turkish / Esperanto
After reading Tal Leming’s fraction fever I decided to give this a go. I’ve long wanted to script a decent fraction feature, but couldn’t get it right. This is working perfectly (for now … I’ve only tested it in Indesign CS2 on Tiger). Click on the images to see it animated.
Still in progress … but Museo Sans will end up with nominators, denominators, superiors, inferiors, oldstyle figures (proportional & tabular) and lining figures (proportional & tabular).
iLT features an article I’ve written revealing a bit more about Anivers.
The new Anivers has been expanded into a small but very rigid, reliable family. Anivers comes in regular, bold, italic and small caps. The regular weight is absolutely free.
Get it at MyFonts.com | Visit the Anivers page
In between Anivers and Museo Sans I decided to update “the font nobody’s waiting for”. Just for fun, because it is fun. It will be completely redrawn and have full language support (like Museo).
[In progress] Calluna & Calluna Sans. Last Christmas (2007) I was so involved with Museo that I needed a little break from it. Calluna is the result of that pause. It will be my first (serious) attempt to do a text face.
[In progress] Anivers will be updated soon with an italic, a bold and small caps. There will be extended language support and improved spacing & kerning.
Always wanted to know why I give my fonts away? This and other questions you find answered in an interview on one of the best typography blogs/sites: iLoveTypography.com
[UPDATE – May 12th 2009]
You may use this font for Font-Face embedding, but only if you put a link to www.exljbris.nl on your page and/or put this notice /* A font by Jos Buivenga (exljbris) -> www.exljbris.nl */ in your CSS file as near as possible to the piece of code that declares the Font-Face embedding of this font.
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This regards all my free fonts. Also the free weights of Museo and Museo Sans!
Thank you all for your much appreciated support and kind comments! Let’s make MUSEO a MyFonts ’starlet’:-) To download the (absolutely) free weights you only have to register at MyFonts.com, but while you’re at it, please consider buying the other gorgeous two.
Get it at MyFonts.com | Visit the MUSEO page.
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.
Modification is now allowed
I’ve updated the font license information. Modifications to suit your design environment (for example adding aditional accents) or to suit your system requirements (for example converting the font software to TTF) are now allowed.
Major update! Well … what’s new?
+ Extended language support*
+ Improved glyph shapes (such as S, s, W, w, f, t, diactitics and many more … )
+ Numeral widths are now old style (via OpenType tabular widths can be accessed)
+ Extended and improved kerning (now over 3.200 kerning pairs)
*Languages now (fully) supported:
Latin / Central European / Croatian / Romanian / Icelandic / Turkish / Esperanto
A closer look? –> diavlo_ii_release.pdf
*edit on jan. 9th 2008*
Thanks for a marvelous year with nearly one million pageviews and half a million visitors on my site. You rock!
The 2007 barrier of 500.000 pageviews and 250.000 visitors has been breached. Thank you all!
A few day’s ago I w.w.w.andered and came across some fonts that were claiming to tackle dyslexia. I’m not going to mention them, but I was just a little bit horrified. I would like to get more information from (font)designers –or people with that disability– to see if I can humbly make a difference.
[updated 27 nov. 2007 :: just to get a global idea]
