Ubuntu title font improvements
The Ubuntu title font is slightly messy and will require some cleaning up. The amount of nodes need to be reduced to a minimum. There are also other problems such as the kerning not being perfect and the shapes of some letters looking out of place (such as the numbers, which dwarf the rest of the font).
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Blueprint information
- Status:
- Started
- Approver:
- Ubuntu Artwork Team
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Ubuntu Artwork Team
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Started
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Michiel Sikma
- Completed by
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Andy Fitzsimon has provided us with an updated Ubuntu Title font.
Improvements welcome.
There is also a derivative with some diacritics added. (See the French LoCo forum entry: http://
Another much richer derivative here: http://
Updated version with diacritics and symbol characters: http://
-- To the author: Perhaps providing a link to a full screenshot on the wiki or something would help to make your case -- please offer a selection at a higher point size too. Great work. Also, a screenshot showing the splines via Inkscape or like tool might be nice to have a sample of to show how much cleaner your version is compared to the rather 'alpha' version by Fitz. -- troy_s
-- To the rest of the artwork team, if you can find any bugs stating issues with the title font, could you please cross link them to this specification. We could then work to getting the revised typeset into place. -- troy_s
1 Jan 2008 – I've posted a more complete cut, this time including the "source" FontLab (not open source, sorry) file along with the build script I use to author the OTF and TTF files. This version not only includes many more diacritics, but includes OpenType features such as small caps, small cap numerals as well as some alternate characters. I have also polished the spacing and added kerning, which was missing from previous versions.
Font files and source:
http://
Printable table showing complete character set:
http://
Alpha numeric characters showing outlines and control point placement:
http://
– christian robertson
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