Eimai

As it came up this weekend at the Libre Graphics Meetings in Brussels: I have this blog over here which I never use. So here goes an attempt to improve that situation… I’ve also entered the microblogging world, as a test to see where that is going. You can find me at identi.ca/eimai.

I’m also going through my unfinished font projects to see if we can put live in some of those. So as a sneak preview of the first font, and hopefully the beginning of getting it in a state where it can be released:

It’s a Greek font! Hopefully more information about it in the weeks to come…

I finally found some time to make a new release, so here it is: the 2.26 version.

No real major changes have been made so it’s difficult to highlight something, but there were lots of smaller ones including several fixes and many new glyphs, so that makes a major update in the end.

Download them from here.

I’m still wondering when a 3.0 version should be made. We’ve been talking about a 3.0 since 2.9 or so…

“Pencil telephone hourglass, diamonds candle candle flag!”

So what should someone do when he can’t sleep? Creating fonts of course! So this is what I managed to do when the clock struck 4 tonight:

Usually these nightly creations look much worse the day after, but somehow I’m actually quite pleased with this one. So this may perhaps end up as a release one day. Lots of work to do though, so don’t get too excited yet…

By the way, as always I’m looking for a good name. For now it goes by the name of “Code Gothic”, since every font that I make in these experiments gets one that starts with “Code”, which is short for “code name”. The “Gothic” part is just a smart name for sans-serif… All ideas for names are welcome!

After neglecting it for a year, I’ve finally done a tiny bit of work on Euterpe again. It’s mainly to fix the degree slash which was seen by me as a combining glyph when I made version 1.0. It also adds the multiple rest symbol which was added in Unicode 5.1 to its proper spot in the musical symbols block. There are a few minor fixes for wrong outline directions as well. The font can be downloaded at the Open Font Library Sourceforge.

Good news: DejaVu is Gnome 3.0 ready! U+21B9 (↹) has been in all our fonts for ages now, together with U+21E4 (⇤) and U+21E5 (⇥) so you can safely keep DejaVu as your default font in Gnome 3.0!