typography

Hebrew and Arabic on track

by Canonical on 4 January 2011

Although I haven’t posted much recently we have still been working away. Besides the latest update to Version 0.7 of the core fonts, which posed some...

Design Museum exhibition London

by Marcus Haslam on 20 December 2010

Something exciting next year Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag has been asked by the Design Museum London to put on an exhibition of his work. This is a...

The monospace is coming

by Canonical on 18 November 2010

In contrast to a proportionally spaced font a the characters in a monospace occupy all exactly the same width. In the past monospace type was used on...

Of hinting and tables

by Canonical on 4 November 2010

I hope regular readers of the design blogs don’t think that we have abandoned our programme of telling you all about the font development – I know it’s been a...

A space odyssey

by Canonical on 15 October 2010

Time flies and it’s already time for our next blog entry on the design of the Ubuntu font suite. Below my colleague Fabio Haag explains the joys of spacing...

The weird and wonderful world of Latin Extended B

by Canonical on 4 October 2010

Below, Amelie Bonet from the Dalton Maag design team shares her thoughts: Latin Extended B is a block (0180-024F) within the Unicode standard. With its...

This week in design – 1 October 2010

by Canonical on 1 October 2010

It’s _almost_ there. Happy “so close to release I can almost taste the Ubuntinis” Day everyone! And if you’ve not tried an Ubuntini, well you should. The next...

Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type

by Mark Shuttleworth on 28 September 2010

The Ubuntu font represents the values of Ubuntu and Canonical, distilled into a typeface that is highly legible on screen, clean and balanced in print,...

Intial Hebrew trials

by Canonical on 23 September 2010

The Ubuntu project is going full speed. We have started intial work on the Hebrew and would like to share a few thoughts with you. This PDF illustrates how we...

It’s all about Greek

by Canonical on 15 September 2010

We are familiar with the Latin alphabet; we are used to seeing it’s forms and shapes and we read it without thinking. When we design Latin fonts, we can rely...

Which way to slant the Hebrew

by Canonical on 10 September 2010

Here is a design conundrum: which way to lean the Hebrew Italic design. Logic, and probably common sense, would dictate that it should slant in the reading...

Charactersets

by Canonical on 9 September 2010

In this latest post discussing development of the Ubuntu family of fonts, Bruno discusses scope, charactersets and what’s coming as part of the Ubuntu...