La Rubujo

Linden Hill and Fanwood are Smashing

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:53:56 GMT

See http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/02/new-high-quality-free-fonts/

The Borough of Fanwood shows its appreciation

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:39:25 GMT

See http://www.fanwoodnj.org/about-fanwood/fanwood-fun-facts/

CrudFactory.com reworked; font server shut down

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:54:38 GMT

A reworked http://crudfactory.com is up and running. (No real work has been done on the individual font download pages, as yet, but that may come.)

As part of the rework, I have shut down the Crud Factory Font Server, on the grounds that it is no fun anymore. (For the site I am directly using pre-made and me-made webfont kits from http://fontsquirrel.com – whereas for my LiveJournal I’ve been using the Google Web Fonts API, for a while already.)

Planning to shut down the Crud Factory Font Server

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:54:19 GMT

I’m planning to shut down the Crud Factory Font Server, whenever I get around to doing it. The reason is it’s not fun anymore and I would rather work on fonts themselves and depend on Google Web Fonts and FontSquirrel. Google now supports the Esperanto characters, and FontSquirrel has my released fonts and provides a font-webification service for other fonts.

I will, most likely, add Google and FontSquirrel links for the downloadable font packages, for those who want to use the fonts in web pages.

(I am already using Google Web Fonts instead of the CFFS to serve fonts for my LiveJournal.)

"Wuthering Heights" in Fanwood Text

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:52:56 GMT

I have thrown together an e-book of Wuthering Heights, not yet read for either proof or pleasure, and not listed on the Crud Factory e-books page: http://crudfactory.com/cf3/e-books/WutheringHeights.kt.pdf

The book is designed for Kindle 3 (the current generation Kindle) and is made with the new Fanwood Text fonts. It could be read with any ordinary PDF reader, too. Note that the fonts were embedded without their hinting, so they may look much fuzzier than usual in Adobe Reader and some other programs, although the glyph shapes will be better preserved.

The Kindle’s experimental web browser may refuse to download a PDF. You can use the USB cable, or you can attach the e-book to an e-mail and send the e-mail to your free.kindle.com or kindle.com address.

Fanwood and Fanwood Text 1.1

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:54:27 GMT

A new release of the Fanwood fonts: http://crudfactory.com/font/show/fanwood

Various little improvements. Now includes Fanwood Text, which is the same as Fanwood but slightly darker and reduced in contrast. I tailored it specially for Amazon Kindle 3 e-book readers, which can handle fonts embedded in PDFs.

(In my opinion the Kindle 3 renders fonts better if you turn off font hinting in your PDF creation software, if that can be done. You may have a different opinion.)

Chirp

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:10:49 GMT

I'm tweeting as chemoelectric, including type-related observations.

I’ve been squatting on the user name for a long time, but haven’t used it until now.

Announcing the release of Fanwood

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:08:43 GMT

Linden Hill

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 06:37:32 GMT

I have tossed a new font family, called Linden Hill, into the Crud Factory rubbish dump. The fonts are based on Frederic Goudy’s letterpress typeface Deepdene.

About the naming, it is all related to the New York City borough of Queens. 40 Deepdene Road is where Goudy lived for about a decade in Forest Hills Gardens. Linden Hill, on the other hand, is what you are looking at if you stare past center field at a Mets home game. It is where my grandparents lived, though I spent much more time watching planes land at LaGuardia than trying to see Mets games through an imaginary telescope. (From pictures I have seen, I suspect the new stadium would offer a better view than the old one.)

Enjoy.

(Some may recognize that I made available ‘pre-release’ versions of these fonts quite a while ago. Little of the work was done recently.)

Fanwood roman

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:20:18 GMT

Sorts Mill Jannon early release on dA

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:59:50 GMT

You can try out version 0.1 of Sorts Mill Jannon by downloading it from deviantART: http://chemoelectric.deviantart.com/art/Sorts-Mill-Jannon-183293629

This ‘early release’ has roman only and doesn’t have advanced features such as small caps and lining figures. But it is spaced and kerned and whatnot.

Sorts Mill Kis snapshot

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:14:14 GMT

A development snapshot of Sorts Mill Kis is available at deviantART: [link]

Possibly you are reading text set in Sorts Mill Kis right now, because currently I use it for the Crud Factory website.

Crud Factory version 4 goes live

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:03:38 GMT

Crud Factory version 4 is in operation: [link].

An interesting thing is that CF4 works along with this LiveJournal account, somewhat. What happens is that if I make a posting like this, which is tagged "crudfactory-news", it shows up at The Crud Factory on the "News" page (after some heroic measures to try to convert LJ’s HTML tag soup to valid XML).

Postscript: The programming on the LJ end was remarkably simple. And changes to a posting at the LJ end will be reflected immediately on the CF4 end, too.

Postpostscript: The site works a little better, or less annoyingly, or more annoyingly, effect-wise, in Chrome or Safari, or in Firefox 4 beta, than in other major browsers. (Opera also belongs on the list, except the version I played with had some weird bugs in font-size transition effects.)

test2 of CF News

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:31:40 GMT

Another anticipatory test of crudfactory-news.

Test of crudfactory-news

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:03:53 GMT

This is a test message for the ‘news’ section of the forthcoming crudfactory.com.