FONTLOG for Cantarell beta release =================================== This file provides detailed information on the Cantarell font software. This information should be distributed along with the Cantarell fonts and any derivative works. Font Information ------------------------- The Cantarell typeface family was designed during my study of MA Typeface Design [1] in the Department of Typography at the University of Reading (UK). Its homepage is http://abattis.org/cantarell The typeface is designed as a contemporary Humanist sans serif, and was developed for on-screen reading; in particular, reading web pages on an HTC Dream mobile phone [2]. That device runs Google Android [3], and therefore has a web browser supporting the exciting new web fonts feature known as @font-face [4]. As my very first typeface design, the typeface has many faults, yet it achieves the goal of improving readability on this device. Each font file currently contains 391 glyphs, and fully support the following writing systems: Basic Latin, Western European, Catalan, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Dutch and Afrikaans. To date, Pan African Latin has only 33% glyph coverage. Since the design is aimed at display on-screen at small sizes, the printed output (especially of the bold and oblique) may not work well. I hope to publish a set of fonts tuned to the needs of printing in the future. This highlights my motivation for undertaking a study of typeface design: I believe it is essential that when we use digital tools, our freedom to use, understand, modify and share these tools is respected. Otherwise, when the tool does not work in the way that we need, we will be unable to fix it. These fonts were developed using only such software, mainly FontForge [5]. Typeface designs are tools too, and therefore these font files are licensed in a way that respects your freedom—you are invited to extend them to meet your needs, such as to add the glyphs missing from your own writing systems, under the terms of the GNU General Public License [6]. If you like this typeface and would like to support its continuing development, you can buy a subscription at £5/month: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6676497 Comments are most welcome – dave@lab6.com - Dave Crossland, 6th July 2009 [1]: http://www.typedesign.reading.ac.uk [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29 [4]: http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Web_font_linking_with_%40font-face [5]: http://fontforge.sf.net [6]: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html * * * This ZIP files contains the TTF fonts you can use on your desktop, and the source files you can modify. You may upload these fonts to your website, and for that I include EOT files for compatibility with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Simply add the following lines to your CSS stylesheets, and place the EOT and TTF files in the same directory: /* Just add the "cantarell" class to HTML elements you wish to use this typeface */ @font-face {font-family:Cantarell; src:url("Cantarell-Regular.eot");} @font-face {font-family:Cantarell; src:url("Cantarell-Oblique.eot"); font-style:italic;} @font-face {font-family:Cantarell; src:url("Cantarell-Bold.eot"); font-weight:bold;} @font-face {font-family:Cantarell; src:url("Cantarell-BoldOblique.eot"); font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;} @font-face {font-family:Cantarell; src:url("Cantarell-Regular.ttf");} @font-face {font-family:Cantarell; src:url("Cantarell-Oblique.ttf"); font-style:italic;} @font-face {font-family:Cantarell; src:url("Cantarell-Bold.ttf"); font-weight:bold;} @font-face {font-family:Cantarell; src:url("Cantarell-BoldOblique.ttf"); font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;} .cantarell {font-family:Cantarell, sans-serif; line-height:1.8em;} NOTE: You can significantly speed up your page loading times by only including the Regular font. Web browsers will generate bold and oblique members of the typeface family from the regular when they are needed. This does not work as well for serif designs, but is fine for a sans serif typeface like Cantarell. The original Spiro source file is the _master_ source, and from it the other files in the family were generated; the regular by converting the Spiro curves to PostScript cubic Bezier curves, and then to TrueType quadratic Bezier curves, and the others by performing bold and oblique machine-transformations with FontForge on the Bezier curve version. I will soon publish a "Reflection on Practice" document on the abattis.org/cantarell website that will explain this process in detail. The EOT files were generated with http://code.google.com/p/ttf2eot/ and have no root string restrictions or compression. ChangeLog ------------------------- Here is a list of major and minor changes, most recent first. 6 July 2009 (Dave Crossland) Cantarell Version 1.001 - Initial release of font as "Cantarell" Acknowledgements ------------------------- Here is a list of contributors. If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description (D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order. N: Dave Crossland E: dave@lab6.com W: http://abattis.org/cantarell/ D: Designer - original Latin glyphs