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