More of the Ubuntu Title Font

Great work :-)

Although before redistributing you probably want to make sure your font metadata (in fontforge: Elements->Font Info... or http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/fontinfo.html#TTF-Names) is really complete and accurate especially when deriving from a font with an existing copyright and license.

Cheers.

Hi,

Excellent work. Very cool work on the (cc) glyph.

I "fixed" the metadata in the font below:

http://area42.pcode.nl/UbuntuTitling-Medium.otf

You'll notice I named it Medium, because well, that's what it probably is. (Maybe Bold). Anyway, I have several headline fonts which are all called Medium, so this seems appropriate to me.

If not, it should probably be called with Regular or Bold instead of Normal.

Oh,

And at least for now, the open source community generally focusses on OpenType/TrueType:

DejaVu, Liberation, OpenSymbol are all OT/TT.

So, I recommend you publish two versions, a OT/CFF version with a em-height of 1000, and a OT/TT version with a em-height of 2048 (this seems to be most common).

Luckily most good font editing software (including fontforge) can rescale with little or any loss.

If you "finish" your font, I'd be happy to package it for inclusion into Ubuntu. Feel free to contact me.

Sorry for ranting here.

But you may also want to provide 'onum' lookups for the old style figures.

And maybe a substition lookup for '(cc)' into your custom CreativeCommons licensed glyph.

OT Ligature lookups would also be nice. And _if_ you can spare the time ff, ffi, ffl ligatures would be nice as well.

Thanks for checking it out. I think that all of your suggestions are great. I would probably call the font a bold weight (but bolder than what? at this point there is no regular). I mostly wanted to start a conversation with the last build. I will be adding the appropriate OpenType features as well as cutting a ttf build. In this case OTF is more like the source code of the font.

I'd stick with OpenType as the main format. I personally hope the OSS community will switch to OT in the not so near future.

Nice work Christian.

There's no point making a OTF/TTF font unless you plan to have TrueType instructions to fine tune the font for screen display. OTF/CFF is perfectly fine for graphics and printing.

Pascal, the OSS community will not switch to OTF/CFF because it is not the perfect format for everything. Both OTF/TTF and OTF/CFF can have the same advanced OpenType features.

Great job.
I like it, and use it !
Thanks for your work.