pfb files were pretty much equivalent to Mac screen and printer font files.
I hope to make intern decisions in a week, and just revised the job description again.Ĭheck it out the typeface on Kickstarter and/or my intern wanted posting.įunny, the other day I had just finished a first pass at reviewing and revising the Extensis document on “ Best Practices for Font Management in Mac OS X,” when a non-Extensis colleague asked me something about PostScript Type 1 fonts: whether Windows. If funding exceeds the minimum by enough of a margin, I can add more language support for central/eastern Europe (including Cyrillic), and even pay an intern! Otherwise, the intern will be an unpaid position. Only if the total pledges exceed the minimum funding target are people’s credit cards charged and the project moves forward. Reward options for backers depend on their funding level, and include not only the fonts, but computer desktop wallpaper, T-shirts and posters.
Lovecraft roleplaying game), and as the original logo for Cracker Jack. The campaign will only last until midnight on Saturday June 17. Basically, people pledge money up front for the fonts (and other goodies) so I know the project is viable. It’s also known as the typeface of Call of Cthulhu (the H.P. My first go didn’t quite make it, so I reconfigured the reward structure and relaunched my Kickstarter campaign to find backers for my new typeface, Cristoforo, a revival of some classic Victorian typefaces by Hermann Ihlenburg.
But in any case, enjoy this free font, and consider supporting Cristoforo in its waning hours on Kickstarter! I may also incorporate the Dark Symbols in my Cristoforo Symbols font that’s TBD. What are the Dark Symbols? Graham explains them on his blog, but basically these are rough-edged hand-drawn symbols, intended for folks to mark up Cthulhu-related role-playing adventures.
Lovecraft / Cthulhu fans: Dark Symbols icons designed by Brennen Reece and Graham Walmsley, fontified by me, released at no charge under the Open Font License 1.1.ĭownload Dark Symbols font (Zip archive of. I settled on releasing a free font that might be of interest to some H.P.
As $10,000 is my final “stretch” goal (the point at which I add Cyrillic support to the fonts), I was trying to decide how to both celebrate and encourage the last few pledges I need. With about 48 hours to go (midnight Sunday PDT), my Cristoforo font project on Kickstarter is at about $9,300 in pledges from backers who want to get cool fonts and other swag. Talking about font detective cases at Typo San Francisco, 2012. (This could include, but is not limited to, reviving the lately-dormant Crafting Type workshops.) Teaching, whether training people on FontLab VI, teaching type design, or other gigs.Type design on my own and/or for clients.Are you a foundry or type designer who needs some one-on-one review and lessons to up your type design game? Have a font tech problem that needs solving? Font consulting-design, technical, business, and other.Hence, I am looking for other part-time or temp gigs that are compatible with my “consulting font detective” work: This is a bit tricky, seeing as the detective work is incompatible with being full-time CEO, yet also not quite at the volume/reliability to fully replace that full-time work. Yet the pay relative to time is excellent for the detective gig, it is quite fun, and I can imagine doing it part-time into retirement 20 years from now… so rather than restricting it to a sideline, I am now doubling down on it. What was once just occasional expert witness and related work has kept growing, and become quite frequent since I launched my “ Font Detective” expert witness web site, a year ago-and even more so in recent months due to publicity around a particularly high-profile case in Canada (see the Toronto Star and National Post articles).īut I can’t keep up with this, while also being full-time CEO of FontLab. It has been a fun ride, and I wish my colleagues nothing but the best! But the time has come to move on and do other things. I am pleased with many things FontLab has accomplished for its customers in my time there, and have written about what we have done over on the FontLab blog. I am also looking for other gigs that are compatible with said investigations! In early June, I will be leaving FontLab! My Font Detective work continues to grow beyond what works with a full-time day job.