Gemeli
A clean and versatile Sans designed to give a contemporary output to today’s messages.
- 12 styles (Mono Regular, Ultralight, Light, Book, Regular+Italic, Demi, Bold+Italic, Black+Italic, Black Condensed)
Gemeli is precise and strong, and conveys ideas in a clean, sharp way. Gemeli shares the same structures as Cogito, but its vertical stroke endings allow for a firmer voice. Initially Gemeli was a outsider prototype proposition which almost got discarded during the developping process of what would later become Cogito. Frutiger, Gill Sans and Antique Olive typefaces are clear references in this family.
Le Gemeli est un caractère précis et fort, convenant à des messages clairs. Il partage une structure commune avec le Cogito dont il est le faux-jumeau: il reprend une des pistes structurelles écartée en phase de recherche et la développe en un système complet et compatible avec le Cogito (graisses, proportions, hauteur d’x, etc.) en y ajoutant une version Monochasse et des italiques. Frutiger, Gill Sans et Antique Olive sont des références appuyées pour cette famille.
Cogito Atelier Malte Martin
As architecturally geometric as DIN can be, as latinized as drawing can be.
Cogito is a compatible typeface family commissioned by Atelier Malte Martin both for its in-house projects and for its studio work.
The commission is quite unusual since design studios are more used to request an exclusive design for them or for their client. Here, the goal is to serve as a workhorse for all kind of work.
The initial purpose of the commission was to replace DIN, extensively used by the atelier, yet it revealed itself to be a latinized sans living at the border of geometry. Cogito has round but stiff shapes and a large x-height, making it suitable for body and display copy.
Cogito has a fraternal twin: Gemeli.
Le Cogito répond à un brief atypique: créer un caractère d’identité pour une agence, qui sera utilisé aussi bien pour l’identité de cette dernière que pour ses clients. Là où usuellement une agence commandite un caractère exclusif pour elle ou pour un client, le Cogito sert, de projet en projet, à affirmer une direction visuelle sur le long terme.
Initialement destiné à remplacer le DIN, le Cogito en est une version assouplie qui est restée rationnelle dans sa construction.
Le Cogito a un faux-jumeau: Gemeli
Nathan Enfantine
- 2011
- 3 styles (Light, Regular, Bold)
With Enfantine, the written letters are now drawn too. Enfantine was commissionned by Nathan publishing house for their children’s book collections. The curvy, friendly alphabets inspired by French cursive scripts embeds countless ligatures and alternates to properly handle the flaws of such typeset scripts. A modern set of uppercases gives the extra contemporary touch.
Carrefour Origin
- 2011
- 1 style
- OpenType-TTF
Pushing the design to the borders of legibility, Origin answers the problem of fitting information in extremely narrow spaces.
Origin is a reglementary typeface commissioned by the retail distribution group Carrefour. By law, it is compulsory in France to set groceries’ geographical origin in the same point size as the price. Origin adresses this need in allowing the “specials” to be still typeset in a “special” point size. Instead of using an artificially compressed typeface, Origin makes drawn shapes tighter than ever.
Le Monde Courrier PTF
Le Monde Courrier is a six-weight typeface designed by Jean François Porchez en 1996.
For the OpenType version of this typeface, I extended he character set of this family, prepared some Multiple Master workflows, reinterpolated the Demi and _Demi Italic weights, adapted the kerning for OpenType, hinted, tested and generated the whole.
Le Monde Courrier est une création de 1997 en 6 graisses de Jean François Porchez.
Pour le passage à la version OpenType, j’ai complété le jeu de caractères de cette famille, préparé certains flux de travail en Multiple Master, réinterpolé les graisses Demi et Demi Italic, adapté le kerning pour l’OpenType, hinté les fontes, testé et généré le tout.
Panorama [teaser]
- 2004-2008
- En développement
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Python Scripting: microscripts
Following the utterly useless Glyph Color Selector,, my first gift for you in 2008 will be, again, scripts.
These microscripts cover pretty straightforward needs. They just tend to reflect my skills in the field of coding: small.
Make EM box
Will create a glyph in your vfb, named “embox”, which will be a 1000×1000em square. Sometimes useful for cross-fonts and cross-softwares comparisons.
Download MakeEMbox.py.zip
Save all opened font’s metrics info
As it name suggests, will export all AFM and INF for the opened vfbs.
I am still struggling to make this happen for features and classes (would be a lot more useful)
Download SaveAllAsAFM.py.zip
Set all opened font’s Version number and creation year
It will also sync the different values (TT version etc) in the font info.
A two-lines manual: open the script, modify the options between double quotes:
versionMajor = "0" #Set your version number here
versionMinor = "001" #Set your revision number here
year = 2008
Download FontInfoVersionanddate.py.zip
Special glyphs creator
Creates space, .CR, .notdef and .null glyphs.
Font UPM must be 1000. Script also adds Ux0020 Unicode value to /space (so comment-out if unneeded). Script also draws an (ugly) .notdef glyph. Very very ugly.
Download SpecialGlyphsCreator.py.zip
Python scripting: Coloured glyphs selector
Maybe the most useless FontLab Studio script ever, as once said a fellow colleague, still it’s available for your pleasure:
A series of Python scripts for FontLab Studio that enables you to select all coloured glyphs in one click. Requires Robofab to work.
Download glyphcolorselector.zip
The collection works as follows:
- ALL.py lets you select all glyphs that are coloured, whatever their colour is.
- Blue.py selects blue-coloured glyphs (how surprising…)
- Cyan.py selects cyan glyphs
- Green.py selects green glyphs
- Pink.py selects pink glyphs
- Red.py selects red glyphs
The script can be tweaked by modifying this line:
if glyph.mark == 210:
Where 210 is the numerical value of Pink
Based upon my idea (I sometimes have strange ideas), the coding is however the work of fellow Karsten Lücke. Be sure to check his foundry and his delightful typefaces.
Edit: A few more scripts here: the microscripts article