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