More sketches & progress on the fatty display Didon

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

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

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

Sketches for no-name antiqua & sans

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.

Peasant & Priest

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.

Revision & New Weights

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.

fr Periodical Preview

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

A Letter a Day / Minden napra egy betű

Project still going on - more at Facebook

MOME Typoschool

Free Fonts from Faberfonts Foundry

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.

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

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/

A Letter a Day / Minden napra egy betű

Project hasn't stopped, here I present some of the latest items I've drawn/created/crafted so far. Enjoy.

For more, please visit Faberfonts Foundry at Facebook.

FR Hopper coming close to release

Alt 'g' and italics for FR Hopper. The family of 12 fonts (6 weights and italics) will be released at the end of August - two styles as free fonts.

Stay tuned! Follow Faberfonts at Facebook!

A Letter a Day / Minden napra egy betű

Kis kísérletem/szórakozásom megélte az első hetet, így itt egy összefoglaló: