Photofonts
At the ATypI 2005, I heard that Pyrus, the FontLab proprietors, make most of their money on their “photofont” tools, not the professional stuff. My friend Gustavo Ferreira made an awesome tool for bitmap font design, “Elementar,” but apart from that, I know nothing about them.
And then Pippin popped up on IM today with this cool photographic font and some thoughts about them.
Such as, that asset management will be the same for vector or bitmap fonts, bitmap fonts use of colour suggests vector fonts could also be coloured, and that glyph variation, ligatures and other “advanced” font features would be just as useful for photofonts.
Why would this be useful? It would “allow nice interaction with photographic backgrounds,” he said, and this reminded me of a page of tips for type on photography written by a freeware font designer.
The Photofonts by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
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