April 2013
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June 2012
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Alphasketch: Spaceman
Another sweet alphabet by Savannah.
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Alphasketch: Jackalope
This week’s Alphasketch brought to you by our awesome new intern, Savannah Julian.
May 2012
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The New FF Chartwell
At long last, the new FF Chartwell has been released! Four new styles of graphs now accompany the family. The fonts have been released through the FontFont foundry; you may have noticed the FF prefixed to the name. It is a great honor to have worked with their awesome and experienced team.
The transition to FontFont brings a new EULA. The biggest change is that webfont licenses are no longer...
January 2012
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Interpolated Nudge for RoboFont
Update: Jackson Cavanaugh(Okay Type) brought this into his Ted-Nudget script. With that, you can access the nudge by using the normal arrow keys. The Script
Also, Gustavo Ferreira(Hipertipo) added a palette/dialog box, if that’s more your style of working. The Script | Overview Video.
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A few years ago Christian Robertson of Betatype created the awesome...
November 2011
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Preview of Chartwell Radar
Another new design for the upcoming polar collection. I’m also throwing around the possibility of including the grid in the font, and adding it to other designs where appropriate. It’s activated as a separate parameter, and includes different threshold options.
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Another Chartwell style in progress
October 2011
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New Lettering for Our Studio Door
Also featuring a new serif typeface in the works.
September 2011
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Alphasketch: Astrodoni
August 2011
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More Chartwell Examples
A few, more practical, examples of Chartwell, courtesy of Lizy.
Data is not factual!
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Alphasketch: Perspective
July 2011
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Alphasketch: Chiseled
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In Progress
New style of Chartwell in the works.
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Alphasketch New Orleans
As I’m sure you know, typeface design is an insanely long process. Often an urge will come over me to make something quickly, just for the sake of progress. A creation that breaks free of any consequences or expectations.
So this, my new semi-regular posting category, aims to satisfy that hunger. The results will be crude. Some may eventually turn into typefaces, but most will never make it...
June 2011
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Chartwell for the Web is Here!
You can now use Chartwell to create graphs on the web! All licenses come with webfonts* and a javascript plugin enabling support in all browsers that can handle @font-face declarations.
Live Demo Documentation Browser Samples
If you purchased a license the first time around, you can upgrade with a full discount of your order here.
*These fonts have not been manually TT hinted, mainly due to...
April 2011
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A Not-So-Brief Explanation of Chartwell
The underlying architecture of Chartwell revolves around ligature substitutions. Most typefaces use ligatures to prevent glyphs from crashing into each other. A simple swap code looks something like:
sub f i by f_i;
So, whenever an “f” appears next to an “i”, the two get swapped out with a pre-drawn “f_i” glyph.
Bars
Bars only uses these basic swaps as...
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Felt the urge to draw some letters
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Wikipedia
March 2011
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Firefox 4 Screenshots
In case you were wondering how Chartwell performs on the web. On the Mac it renders surprisingly well, but not so great on Windows.
Firefox 4 is currently the only browser that supports Chartwell. FF3.6 does support ligatures, but mangles and breaks the graphs. So, in conclusion, you should find other options for displaying graphs on the web, unless you have an extremely controlled user base.
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Breaking the Silence
The “Chartwell Explained” post is taking longer than I had hoped. Until then, here are a few samples illustrating a few of the many possibilities of Chartwell.
I should point out, you can color the values with any color you like. I just happen to prefer the simple b&w style.
