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More sketches & progress on the fatty display Didon

2011-05-23T12:53:00.003+02:00

More sketches & progress on the fatty display Didone. I usually do lot of hand sketches this time - detailed or now so much - just to keep my eyes and hand trained and let the mistakes possibly happen - they are doors to creativity (I think I read this somewhere before).

FR Dagi

2011-05-17T10:24:00.002+02:00

After another months is has been locked up into the cupboard (second time) I started to re-draw parts of FR Dagi - a title Didone - and finally it seems to get the right feel I wanted.

Some in-progress example & ephemera below.

Some progress on the antiqua

2011-04-26T13:09:00.003+02:00

A few alt caps & ampersand plus revised cap forms both in text & title masters.

Első print teszt az antikvához...

2011-04-20T11:12:00.000+02:00

...Remek eredménnyel - a 32pt master jól néz ki, a 12 pt master nagyon jól üzemel folyószövegként.

Apróbb módosítsok szükségesek most, valamint a kurresns & kurzív formák tervezése.

Ötletelek - rengetget - kézi vázlatokban, anyagot gyűjtök, föleg Nicolas Jenson & Francesco Griffo érdekel - persze sajnos csak jobb-rosszabb nyomtatott másolatok állnak rendelkezésemre.

Igyekszem áttekinteni az ‘optical master’ kérdését is - jól halad a dolog.

Forgatom Bringhurst bibliáját is, most is, mint minden alkalommal, mást mond. Mint egy jó tanár. A maga hibáival együtt, persze :)

“Your content is accepted”

2011-04-15T09:47:00.000+02:00

We are happy we can share this two days with you as FR Hopper & FR Smaragdina will be in Typodarium 2012.

“Typodarium 2012 is the daily typography dose. A tear-off calendar, just like the one our grandma used to hang in the kitchen. But this calendar unveils a new font everyday.”

Jövőre találkozunk!

Antiqua Project

2011-04-11T13:21:00.002+02:00

A hétvégén határozott fejlődést sikerült elérni - már ami az alapvető vizuális megjelenést - szerifek, csatlakozások, ívek - illeti.

Sketches for no-name antiqua & sans

2011-04-05T22:11:00.000+02:00

Skiccek az antikvához - és sans-hoz.

Első pár lépés után jól szokott jönni egy nyomtatóteszt - mondjuk 120 pontos méretben - és egy alapos ötletelés szemmel & tollal, mint a legmegbízhatóbb eszközökkel.

Antiqua Project

2011-04-05T12:35:00.000+02:00

Antiqua typeface - working title Old Serif - preview.

I'm trying to explore the land of optical sizes---

Peasant & Priest

2011-03-30T13:27:00.001+02:00

Antiqua typeface - working title Old Serif - preview

My first serifed type family is taking shape,
quite slowly due the investigation I have to do.

Alakul az első szerifes fontcsalád - igen lassan,
mivel közben meg kell vizsgáljak egy-két dolgot.

Experimental No. 31.

2011-03-09T14:36:00.001+01:00

WIP

Experimental No. 30.

2011-03-09T14:34:00.002+01:00

More Details

Revision & New Weights

2011-03-09T14:16:00.000+01:00

FR Hopper type family of 12 fonts (6 weights and italics) is released - two styles as free fonts.

Now new styles are in production (condensed & maybe slab) as well as update on the original family.

Stay tuned!

Experimental No. 30.

2011-02-23T10:56:00.001+01:00

fr Periodical Preview

2011-02-04T11:13:00.001+01:00

No kerning & no metrics yet just a moodboard for a new typeface with a working title

HNY / BUÉK

2011-01-01T15:46:00.000+01:00

2010 was a great year - and first of the Foundry - so I would like to thank it to all of you and wish you a happy & prosperous new one.

2010 egy nagyszerű év volt - és az első évünk mint betűöntöde -, szeretném hát megköszönni mindenkinek és egyúttal Boldog Új Évet kívánni!

Moment

2010-12-21T14:46:00.000+01:00

‘theNextBigThing’ project preview

2010-12-08T11:10:00.002+01:00

Next type family of my Foundry coming - no name yet, but cool sans lowercase with little details. Family will contain a sans and slab family with the same underlying structure. Slightly condensed this design will be.

Also I've learned something about the inner space relations in weights - FL tends to do bolder weights too tight (with 'Effects/Bold' action, 'Keep glyph dimensions' option on) - so let some extra air in and make your glyphs look fine & correct.

Sneak Peak

2010-12-08T11:08:00.000+01:00

Have you created some playful patterns and ornaments yet today?

We at the Foundry find it deliberating to creat a pattern font from time to time.

Next one gonna be FR Minta Two.

December Discount

2010-12-08T11:06:00.002+01:00

Faberfonts Foundry's December Discount.

December is the month of giving so lets start the holiday sale: all Faberfont products 20% off on MyFonts.

Decemberben minden egyes fontunk 20% kedvezménnyel vásárolható meg MyFonts oldalunkon!

A Letter a Day / Minden napra egy betű

2010-12-08T11:02:00.001+01:00

Project still going on - more at Facebook

tipomandala

2010-11-10T16:49:00.001+01:00

tipomandala, originally uploaded by fabergraph.

MOME Typoschool

2010-10-19T10:39:00.000+02:00

Free Fonts from Faberfonts Foundry

2010-10-05T11:49:00.001+02:00

Two styles of FR Hopper family - 430 and 431 - comes as free fonts.

You can download and use them for personal and business projects.
You can even use them on your site.

However, you can't modify it, resell it, distribute it in any way without the direct permission of the Author of these font.

You would like to use it some way but aren't sure wherer it is permitted or not? Contact me, please.

Free fonts are full versions as they comes from the studio of Faberfonts Foundry. Both have all the OT feature sets and 836 gylphs as other members of FR Hopper family members do.

Hope you will enjoy using it.

To download FR Hopper 430 and FR Hopper 431 please visit my site.

If the download doesn't start: Right-click and select 'Save As'.

Officially speaking.

2010-10-04T10:49:00.001+02:00

FR Hopper is the biggest release of Faberfonts Foundry since its opening. The project started as a quest for cool and neutral thin sans capital forms and proportions more than a year ago. Till then lot of things have changed and have been added and the project have grown into a project as complex and prolonged as nothing else before here in the studio of Faberfonts.

FR Hopper is a sans based on geometric forms still having a friendly personality. It is inteneded for mid-lenght texts, captions, titles and almost any other occasinal use - posters, flyers and even for web sites.
FR Hopper comes in 7 weights, 12 styles with 836 glyphs - that means 10 032 glyphs ready to use for your projects - and many advanced OT-features such as small caps, discetionary ligatures, alternate characters, fractions, arrows, ornaments and more - in all styles. It supports Extended Latin-A and Latin-B character sets and more that 100 languages.

Italics are based on carefully slanted roman versions but come with many cursive characters drawn from the ground up. It gaves enought difference to the italics to
stand out successfully from the romans - or attract by their own charm.

All the styles are hand-kerned carefully.

As two of the styles - FR Hopper 430 and 431 - comes as free fonts, you can download and test these before deciding to buy any other styles.

Release Date of v.1.0: October 7. 2010.

Pre-Release (FR Hopper 430 and 431 of v.1.0): October 5. 2010.

Goetheorie 2010

2010-09-24T10:01:00.003+02:00

Poster proposals for the 200th anniversary of Goethe's Zur Farbenlehre (Color Theory).

FR Hopper (and its modified version also) was used all over the project.

See bigger version:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabergraph/5013747181/sizes/o/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabergraph/5007690000/sizes/l/