Typophile - Sofa: a cosy typeface - Comments

I also spotted it in the

zoltok — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:31:55 -0700

I also spotted it in the sample copy – the french paragraph is the only one with multiple instances of apostrophes, and all are facing to the right.

Thanks. It was just an error

Sebastian Nagel — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:19:29 -0700

Thanks. It was just an error in the test document. Will be corrected in the next update.

Check out pages 8 & 11 of

laserj — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:38:08 -0700

Check out pages 8 & 11 of your pdf, second to last line on both, the word “Don’t”. That’s the only two I saw. She’s a beaut by the way. Good lookin’ specimen to boot.

BTW: The current versions in

Sebastian Nagel — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:16:27 -0700

BTW: The current versions in the PDF do not have hinting applied yet. I’ve tried Autohinting with Fontlab + AFDKO, which works quite fine, but if I do that, the f_f_h and f_f_k ligature are not visible anymore in Indesign CS2 (not tested in other apps yet). All the other ligatures and glyphs work fine. Any ideas why this could be?

Thanks for your comment. Can

Sebastian Nagel — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:57:14 -0700

Thanks for your comment. Can you tell me on which page (or which sentence) the “wrong” apostrophe can be found? It might be an error in the font, or just in the example text (which is quite copy pasted without much revision...)

Hello Sebastian, Love the

zoltok — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:03:16 -0700

Hello Sebastian,

Love the face. I will leave the deep typographic critique to the experts here, but I just noticed that in your specimen the apostrophe faces the other direction than I’m used to seeing. Is this intentional?

Looking forward to seeing more updates!

just an update (see first

Sebastian Nagel — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:35:02 -0700

just an update (see first posting for PDF):

- serif roman (finished)
- serif bold (quite finished?)

“serif roman italic”, “serif bold italic”, “sans roman” and “sans bold” coming soon (not included extensively in pdf as the need one more round of polishing).

Very nice! Can’t wait to

Jojoto — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:58:55 -0700

Very nice! Can’t wait to see it finished.
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Very good job A very

JRGcisterna — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:05:52 -0800

Very good job
A very attractive typography
I also liked the way in which we show
Congratulations
From Chile

Nice work! i like this type,

strass — Sat, 2 Feb 2008 18:20:25 -0800

Nice work!

i like this type, keep up!

Chears

Ferch

Tipografía-Montevideo

Maybe these threads can shed

derya — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:42:15 -0800

Maybe these threads can shed light on the turkish dotless i / ligatures problem:

http://typophile.com/node/34200
http://typophile.com/node/33330

And: is there a website,

Sebastian Nagel — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:17:27 -0800

And: is there a website, link, thread, that explains the problematique of turkish dotless i and ligatures? I could not find a good explanation yet, and I’d like to do this “right” from the beginning.

How is it going?

Roman: Bugfixing, but finished.
Roman Italic: Bugfixing, almost finished.
Bold: derivated from Roman, almost finished, looks good (this was surprisingly easy)
Bold Italic: working on it at the moment (this is quite difficult)

Concerning Opentype SMCP and

Sebastian Nagel — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:12:38 -0800

Concerning Opentype SMCP and C2SC features:

I have special small caps figures, currency units and some other symbols in the font.

Which version is better?
— SMCP only changes lower case letters, C2SC changes upper case, figures, symbols
— SMCP changes lowercase, figures, symbols, C2SC finally changes upper case as well

At the moment I have implemented the second variant.

Thanks for pointing me to

Sebastian Nagel — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:15:46 -0800

Thanks for pointing me to this, I have checked path directions some versions ago, but they already were a mess again... Now all path directions are postscript and when removing overlaps there are no more white artifacts (I have checked through everything in Indesign and PDF in different zoom levels, so I hope I have not missed one).

path direction on Iogonek is

paul d hunt — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:58:08 -0800

path direction on Iogonek is wrong, or you didn’t remove overlap.

Sofa: a cosy typeface

Sebastian Nagel — Sat, 7 Jan 2006 18:13:16 -0800

Dear forum members,

besides Terra Nova, I have started another Typeface out of an urge to do “something different”.

After doing some pencil-drawings of some letters, I started working on “Sofa – a cosy typeface”. It is kind of a humanist egyptienne with no (or almost no) sharp edges, slightly curved outlines, and flowing, handwritten flavour in the basic shapes.

Sofa won’t be a “monster” like Terra Nova, I don’t plan to do that much opentype-scripting, alternate forms, ligatures etc. as I’ve done so far there. At the moment, there is a basic character set with Upper- and Lowercase, numerals and some punctuation. Also, some basic spacing is done to test the font in text-sizes.

Do you have any suggestions or objections on the general concept, or (if you like it) on single glyphs?

Thanks a lot for your feedback and your help, I hope I can give some knowhow back later (after a lot more years of learning...)

Sebastian

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