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FONTLOG for the Iceland font
This file provides detailed information on the Iceland
font Software.
This information should be distributed along with the
Iceland fonts and any derivative works.
Basic Font Information
The idea of geometric typefaces with a look reminiscent of
the machinery, technology, and interior design of the 1950s
originated in Eurostile family by Aldo Novarese and
Alessandro Butti (1952).
Iceland is a modular square-shaped webfont by Victor
Kharyk with a cold brutal character designed with the
intention to perform well on screen starting from low
resolutions. For this purpose the strokes are
deliberatly kept vertical and diagonal cuts have a
45° angle, outlines are rounded.
Features like wide proportions and generous x-height
are introduced for better legibility. Unconventional
and simplified letterforms like k, f, r aid readability
at small sizes. While at display sizes they add a
crisp and sharp impression.
Uppercase letters are decently heavier compared to
lowercase as a tribute to the old typographic tradition.
This way uppercase is easily distinguished from
lowercase, and allows scaling down to be used
as Small Caps.
Because of its ascetic modular character and squarish
proportions Iceland webfont is easily integrated in
modular grids and logotypes.
Iceland is a Unicode typeface family that supports
languages that use the Latin script and its variants,
and could be expanded to support other scripts.
More specifically, this release supports the
following Unicode ranges: Latin-1
To contribute to the project contact Alexei Vanyashin at
a@cyreal.org
There are two .vfb Source files:
1. Iceland-Regular.vfb (Original Source files with
contour overlaps)
2. Iceland-Regular-OTF.vfb (Merged and optimized file)
ChangeLog
17 November 2011 (Alexei Vanyashin) Iceland v. 1.001
- Applied ttfautohint
- Mastered TTF file
— Added GASP table
If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N),
email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and
description (D). This list is in alphabetical order.
N: Viktor Kharyk
E: kharyk@gmx.de
D: Designer
N: Alexei Vanyashin
E: a@cyreal.org
W: www.cyreal.org
D: Mastering