InkTrap

Author: Pedro Amado

  • Copyright Information

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    Pedro Amado
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    When a digital type design project is ready for publishing and distribution, it is important to check your legal information before exporting the final WOFF, OpenType and Variable Font files. This year, students have been asking how to do this. The final copyrights notice and legal (EULA) license information is the target of much discussion…

  • Type Specimen Test Sheet

    Type Specimen Test Sheet

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    Check out this very complete (and very useful) type specimen testing template [sheet] from Type Heist: https://typeheist.co/blog/type-testing-template/ This is the template I use to test all Typeheist fonts. As I added more and more characters and multi-linguals, I needed an easy way to test my typefaces without recreating the same thing each time (or worse…

  • JVC Bodoni

    JVC Bodoni

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    JVC Bodoni is a “Didone” typeface revival, designed by in 2023 by Jorge Moreira, Vanessa Sousa and Sara Tavares. The purpose of this work was to design a font for text inspired by a typography of books prior to 1980, with the intention of updating it to the contemporary [local] culture and, thus, producing a…

  • U2

    U2

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    U2 is a neo-grotesque, sans serif font, available in two “flavors” — regular and oblique — designed by Duarte Antão, Joana Tavares, & Maria Figueiredo in 2023. It claims its shape as an Univers Revival. The font’s name/logogram evokes a well-known graphic representation of the original source – the periodic table. It translates all the…

  • Primeira (1.ª)

    Primeira (1.ª)

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    Primeira (1.ª) is a font that is born from the isolation of the characteristics that dictate the identity of a [Transitional] Scotch [Roman]. Designed by Catarina Ferreira & Ricardo Figueiredo in 2023. Starting from the visit made to the library of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, which aimed to consult…

  • Almanaque

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    Almanaque is a digital typeface revival that varies in two styles and thicknesses, inspired by the old Portuguese almanacs. Designed by Alexandre Sousa, Leonor Aguiar and Marta Silva in 2023. Classified between a transitional and rational serif, it results from a creative process that involved the research and analysis of various type designs used in…

  • Dutch Medieval Neo Humanist

    Dutch Medieval Neo Humanist

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    Dutch Medieval Neo Humanist is a revival interpretation typeface, designed by Cíntia Funchal & Lucas Parra in 2023, based on a printed copy of Hollandsche Mediaeval, originally created in 1912 by S. H. de Roos. Hollandsche Mediaeval typography exerted a significant influence on the artistic milieu, leaving a lasting legacy in the history of typography.…

  • Antoinette

    Antoinette

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    Antoinette is an original Garalde (AKA Aldine) typeface revival based on in the forms of the original Garamond typeface, by Beatriz Martinez, Carolina Ferreira, & Daniela Oliveira, in 2023. The family consists of two fonts, Antoinette Regular and Antoinette Slant to be used in small sizes like those of a running text. Attention to detail…

  • Whitney

    Whitney

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    Whitney is a Classical (soft nineteenth-century) Serif typeface revival designed by Ana Paula Hentges, Margarida Almeida, and Vitória Santos in 2022. The project had as its premise of developing a complete text typeface, from a printed copy before the 1980s. The chosen font was Windsor, launched in 1905 and created by Eleisha Pechey. Due to…

  • ADAKZIA

    ADAKZIA

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    Adakzia is a Sans Serif “Frakenfont” Grotesque typeface revival, designed by Alessio Morelli, João Aveiro, and Rui Costa in 2022. The entire project developed around the idea of creating something controversial, almost chaotic, and in line with a Dadaist idea (…) to create a single file that contained two sides of the same coin from…