Haiku Monkey
Web Fonts
Haiku Monkey (+) 14/07/2010
Slowly, surely,…I’ve uploaded two kits for @font-face web font embedding, for each of my open source families: Lavoisier and Designation. Thanks to Font Squirrel for their font kit generator!Now to start thinking about opening up my commercial fonts for w (+)
The Art of Bold
Haiku Monkey (+) 25/03/2010
The Art of BoldI remember thinking, way back when, that word processing software was amazing in the way it created bold versions of fonts whenever you typed ctrl-b. So naive. Of course, bold fonts are carefully crafted by font designers, not generated by (+)
Hunk
Haiku Monkey (+) 12/03/2010
Sometimes you need a big font to get across a big idea. Introducing Hunk: (+)
Blues City
Haiku Monkey (+) 26/02/2010
So I saw this awesome neon sign, and it inspired this font.There are hundreds of ligatures in the font, with glyphs joined at the serifs. Really makes a great display font. (+)
m11
Haiku Monkey (+) 01/02/2010
I took my recent release, m7, and made it big and blocky. I’m releasing it here for free. Use it, embed it, change it, do whatever you like; just don’t sell it or sell any modifications of it. Let me know if you make something cool with it!Download the m1 (+)
Aerohop Now Totally Free
Haiku Monkey (+) 11/01/2010
Apparently word has gotten out, because over the last week you all are downloading Aerohop from MyFonts.com at a dizzying pace. Well, if you haven’t already picked it up, the whole Aerohop family is now free. Go get it. And let me know if you do something (+)
Designation: New open source font
Haiku Monkey (+) 17/12/2009
I’ve just finished version 1.0 of a new, open source font family called Designation. It’s released under the SIL Open Font License, the gist being that you can use the fonts for any purpose, you can modify the fonts however you like (as long as you releas (+)
Typodarium 2010
Haiku Monkey (+) 18/11/2009
The Typodarium folks sent me a free copy of their 2010 calendar (incredibly nice of them! I would’ve bought one), complete with Banyan as the face of May 8. Woot! (+)
Lavoisier 1.3
Haiku Monkey (+) 16/11/2009
I’ve re-worked Lavoisier, tweaking many of the glyphs, and completely redoing the sidebearings and kerning. Take it for a spin! Visit the Lavoisier page to download the font and/or the source files. (+)
Modus
Haiku Monkey (+) 09/10/2009
So I’ve been working on and off for a year on a text face that I’m tentatively calling “Modus.”The idea of creating a good italic for this is daunting enough so that the font family may never see the light of day. But, in any event, working on the regular (+)
Epistolar Font
Haiku Monkey (+) 08/09/2009
I liked Epistolar so much that I contributed some new glyphs and tweaks. Masklin8 was kind enough to use these tweaks and re-release the font over on Deviant Art. Go check it out and download it (for free)! (+)
Deviant Art Free Font Roundup
Haiku Monkey (+) 13/07/2009
I just went on my semi-annual voyage through the free fonts on Deviant Art, and came up with a few you might be interested in: (+)
Character Combiner
Haiku Monkey (+) 07/07/2009
Character Combiner in ActionI whipped up a program to help me with kerning in FontLab. It’s Windows-only, and needs the .NET framework to run. It’s in pretty raw form, but does what it does pretty well. Feel free to download it (click on the image above) (+)
I Am a Bird
Haiku Monkey (+) 13/05/2009
Just released over on MyFonts.com: I Am a Bird. A slab serif font family with a bit of a twist. (+)
Revolt at 96th Street
Haiku Monkey (+) 28/04/2009
Just can’t get enough subway art from the 70s/80s lately… Love the color palette on this one. Is that the end of a “Zephyr” piece on the left? Is it a 6 train? That’s not the west side 96th Street station, anyway. (Incidentally, I’m loving the “96″ font o (+)
Working on Italics
Haiku Monkey (+) 13/04/2009
Mostly what I’ve done with my fonts so far is just create obliques. Trying my hand at italics on my latest creation:Italics in progress (+)
Font Design Ain’t Always Pretty
Haiku Monkey (+) 17/03/2009
Font currently in the early stages of design. (+)
Zephyr on the Freights
Haiku Monkey (+) 11/03/2009
ZephyrOriginally uploaded by CleveburghUberAllesLove this nearly-monochrome Zephyr piece. Check out the awesome ligatures. The “HY” is a thing of beauty. (+)
sIFR Version of Lavoisier
Haiku Monkey (+) 11/03/2009
Cool! Someone sIFR-ized Lavoisier. Go download it at sIFRvault. (+)
Haiku Ornaments
Haiku Monkey (+) 09/03/2009
Haiku OrnamentsHere’s a free font for you, filled with hand-drawn ornaments. Feel free to download it and use it for anything you see fit. Download link:Haiku Ornaments (True Type) (+)
Lavoisier 1.2 Bold/Italic
Haiku Monkey (+) 18/02/2009
Bold, Italic, Bold-Italic are all done. Go check them out… (+)
Lavoisier ver. 1.2
Haiku Monkey (+) 12/02/2009
I’ve integrated Sergiy Tkachenko’s Cyrillic extensions, added small caps, added some Greek glyphs, added a lot of extra other glyphs with diacritics, and tweeked some of the old glyphs. We’re up to 876 glyphs now. Bold and italic (oblique) versions coming (+)
Lavoisier Font
Haiku Monkey (+) 29/01/2009
LavoisierLavoisier is a free, open source font. Feel free to download it, use it, embed it, tweak it, whatever you want. You can play around with the source file if you have FontLab. If you make a change that you think is valuable, let me know and maybe I (+)
Early 80’s on 86th Street.
Haiku Monkey (+) 29/01/2009
Rasta and Revolt, oh yeah. 86th and Broadway. I can almost smell the stale subway air wafting up the stairs… (+)
sIFR, et al
Haiku Monkey (+) 28/01/2009
Great post over at Smashing Magazine about web typography. Scattered through the article are a bunch of sIFR-based, and quasi-sIFR techniques and plug-ins. I just finished playing around with some of them.TTFTitles WordPress Plug-In: Works beautifully. Th (+)
Inconspicuous Vertical Metrics
Haiku Monkey (+) 14/01/2009
Johno has published my article over on iLT! (Debate rages on about whether or not they should be called “metrics”…) (+)
OpensIFr
Haiku Monkey (+) 12/01/2009
Well, this is old news (2007), but I just stumbled across a version of sIFR that doesn’t require Flash in order to create Flash font files. It works with the wonderful swfmill, a project central to the open source Flash development community.Check out ope (+)
Aerohop
Haiku Monkey (+) 08/10/2008
Available in Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, and Black Italic. Black and Black Italic are free. (+)
Haiku Monkey fonts are now available at fonts.com, as well as
Haiku Monkey (+) 02/09/2008
Haiku Monkey fonts are now available at fonts.com, as well as myfonts.com. (+)
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