Fred Smeijers Is OurType

Wow. Very nice. The best presentation I have seen.

It makes others, that I thought were great before, seem not so good suddenly. This takes font sales on the web to the next level.

I think it is safe to say that the bar has just been raised on font previewing through the web.

Brilliant. Very intuitive.

(But still no kerning support.)

Beautiful site, great fonts. Kudos.

from group94, finally a decent fontshop, with category names for the layperson...but still the .gifs

http://www.fontshop.be/

I _love_ the execution.

One complaint : for the life of me, I can't figure out whether fonts are available as OpenType — there doesn't appear to be any file format information.

It seems these Flash/Shockwave (don't know) based vector type renderings are more faithful viewed in white on black (reversed). I just noticed it. This group94 work is something *very* useful. Smeijers' faces are impeccable as usual, but not so groundbreaking or particularly original. I stick to my beloved Quadraat (basic package): Roman, Italic, Small Caps and Bold.

And... Silus, OurType faces seem to be on sale just in Type1 (or TT) format, and not OpenType, otherwise I could not explain the presence of such sets as "Small Caps" or "Lining Figures".

A dispatch of love to Fred Smejiers, anyway, for the beautiful Custodia: finally a lowercase q designed specifically for myself! :)
But stop this "Small Caps Italics" nonsense, please...

Fred's background notes on each of the designs are in his new book, "Type now". This book shows quite a few more of his typefaces -- both older and even newer.

"Small Caps Italic" is useful to publishers of religious books where the word "Lord" needs to be set in small caps. If a passage needs to be set in italics, the sc italics are helpful. Granted, that's a pretty small market (and we really only need "o", "r", and "d").

Keep those italic small caps coming. They are also useful in typography of complex scholarly books and other works with deep levels of subheads. Yes, one could say that requiring these sorts could be solved by editorial intervention. But editors don't always listen to typographers, and in the end, typographers serve editors, not the other way around. Using Minion or Miller italic smalls is sometimes a decent fallback; sometimes not. When evaluating a new text family, that is one of the things I look for. The lack thereof will hardly ever prevent me from purchasing a font, but the presence of italic smalls is always a positive factor. Use them sparingly, though.

will powers

I like very much the big size of type in background. His fonts for long too. My main concern is not that, more security. Seems, from developers point of view (after discussing that with them), seems easy to download all swf or such, for all fonts. As type designer, I feel unconfortable about that.

Still, gifs are more safe for us, saddly for users. But there is ways today, to make them more clean than before...

And, what is a bit frustrating is the non presence of information about the fonts. I suppose, because its a new place, some parts are not finished.

>“Small Caps Italic” is useful to publishers of religious books where the word “Lord” needs to be set in small caps. If a passage needs to be set in italics, the sc italics are helpful. Granted, that’s a pretty small market (and we really only need “o”, “r”, and “d”).

A very important use, to me, but we did it before without them, so we can stil do without. My own taste, of course.
Surely you won't need Ultra Black Small Caps Italics.

Great resource! Very good!
The best flash e-shop I have seen!