Gimlet’s Compact Diereses
Gimlet’s alternate umlauts (OpenType Stylistic Set 08) were inspired by forms found in Schadow Antiqua Fett:
An interview with Peter Glaab
German designer Peter Glaab has been interested in Georg Trump’s typeface Schadow for years. So naturally he reached out when I released Gimlet, which takes many of its cues from the typeface.
First, he took some time to interview me about Gimlet’s design, and also about my new foundry and what other typefaces I have up my sleeve. Then, he wrote an excellent review of Gimlet (in German, translate it here), highlighting its connection with Schadow, its design features, and its alternate forms with an incredible amount of depth.
The icing on the cake: both articles are set in Turnip!
Bungee Pixel
James Edmondson and Eric Lobdell just released Emojigram (GitHub), a fun little tool that converts text into vertically-arranged emoji bitmaps.
Knowing how much I like vertical type, James encouraged me to create a pixel version of Bungee, which he used to create a special version of the tool: Emojigram: Bungee Edition »
I created Bungee Pixel with Monodraw, which has become my go-to ASCII art editor. It takes some liberties with the original design, but retains the same simplified sans-serif structure. It is eight pixels high, with three-pixel stems, two-pixel hairlines, and one-pixel letter spaces. View Bungee Pixel on Github »
