Inspiration

Term One Inspiration

Initial inspiration for the uppercase came from the Trajan column.

For the lowercase, the Ramsey Psalter served as one inspiration.

Edward Johnston's foundational hand was also a reference.

Progress

Term One Progress as told by Git commit messages

2016-02-06b5ccb33Initial commit
2016-02-06a2eb13finitial commit
2016-02-0692f1606Merge branch 'master' of github.com:shannpersand/cooper-type
2016-02-0671a782brenames font
2016-02-06a8f0d1badd gitignore
2016-02-065b4e3ccrefines some letters and begins cleaning up
2016-02-066878544ds store cleanup
2016-02-07cf033fbadds screenshots
2016-02-075bf1d3cadds generic bracketed serif
2016-02-0728dbd93edits bingobango
2016-02-07ae2ba39reorganize
2016-02-07ee74311edits bingobango
2016-02-072210da6re-edits bingo bango
2016-02-07a6c66c5pdf and images

2016-02-15520913fadds trajan skeletons

2016-02-159d438a4rename file
2016-02-1531b022eadjusts trajan caps, adds template
2016-02-15868bf03add idml cs5 compatible template
2016-02-27272d66eupdates trajan caps

2016-02-27ed6d2aamoves riter around, adds images and adds lots of miniscules

2016-02-281ed7572updates riter neue, adds prospectus indd and pdf
2016-02-28244cb9aadds prospectus pdf
2016-03-013ae56f1edits prospectus to combine with notation
2016-03-02a0a2996Create README.md
2016-03-07052c758rename file
2016-03-07f6ba983Merge branch 'master' of github.com:shannpersand/cooper-type

2016-03-07c2a4aa9serif experimentation

2016-03-1384244feserif experimentation
2016-03-13dd0e554wip, refines some serifs, adds a few more capitals
2016-03-14775ed5badds U, 1 refines some glyphs
2016-03-14641cac9adding ugly numbers and adjusting letters
2016-03-19c48edaeadds some glyphs
2016-03-19483d380adds DFKWXYZ
2016-03-19ede6edawip cleaning up

2016-03-20beada7dadds Qdp, adjusts serifs

2016-03-209854d96cleaning up
2016-03-2109e448afills out uppercase and most of lowercase
2016-03-21565ce06adjusts wxyz, adds 05.:
2016-03-21a80bd31finishes figures, adjusts spacing
2016-03-22b213a53lots of finishing, spacing adds proofs and finishes numbers
2016-03-22b96cfc7adds pdf
2016-03-24116054badds everything but the &! adjusts weights

2016-03-2455ef5aaadds extra characters

2016-03-24954f968updates samples
2016-03-263919c5cadds indesign docs
2016-03-266b18767update presentation
2016-03-26af3278dupdate presentation
2016-03-276bb86b7update presentation add sample
2016-03-27784c763updates name of folder and adds full presentation

Progress

Term two's progress tracking continued by Git commit messages

2016-05-1793e3403adding italic test and latin character sets
2016-05-17d9fadccedit gitignore
2016-05-17915e397edit gitignore
2016-05-170dbe18eupdates latin plus
2016-05-22a361ea1adds verbs to italic
2016-06-13414e39badds italic working file
2016-06-21e7498a0renames italic and edits some serifs on lowercase roman
2016-06-21b9a82e6deletes stupid indd files
2016-06-24dd7babcadjusts roundness, wip fixing various serifs
2016-06-25e53a0b1adds python workshop and new preferences

2016-06-250414dabadd italic o and some small spacing adjustments

2016-06-26d66461fadds more python workshop
2016-06-261169ea6adds more python workshop
2016-06-260fdf96dadds some italic uppercase

2016-06-28ce6046fadds samples

2016-06-294db9507refines some serifs
2016-07-0249aaf34Merge pull request #1 from shannpersand/serif-refinement
2016-07-02a31bbe3Merge pull request #2 from shannpersand/more-roman
2016-07-026ddf822adds some reorg

2016-07-02dced6c1lightens lowercase roman overall, moves lc to new serifs

2016-07-055eaad7elatest
2016-07-06bf11086makes serifs bigger
2016-07-06dae1d51adds wider spacing
2016-07-106cc0d38refining widths and serifs
2016-07-1190262f8adds capitals new serifs for roman

2016-07-180dfa9cesome work on original / adds new file / rearranges life

2016-07-1901c9395adds more characters to base and components
2016-07-195ce2fb1adds a few new characters, adjusts spacing
2016-07-2016869d5fills out lowercase
2016-07-2164f7587some spacing
2016-07-21b89328cslight adjustments, adds BHLOI
2016-07-22d133d7dfills out uppercase

2016-07-2357294c9adjust some of the regular, adds some characters for italic

2016-07-23f2fb280makes spacing 10 wider overall on base, adds italic proof
2016-07-236d48111adjusts components in roman that did not move
2016-07-252d2b7caadds a few letters to italic lc
2016-07-25987b581wip adds more to italic
2016-07-261a14a5eadds more italics, and updates settings
2016-07-2759fc2c9fills out lowercase italic
2016-07-2876dd9beupdates pref
2016-07-280e22397adds 5 basic uppercase italic, some lc spacing adjustments
2016-07-28feac85asome small thing on roman H
2016-07-309ce011dwip adds almost all italic uppercase

2016-07-303f9b040fills out EGJL italic

2016-07-30bcb5836finish uppercase italic
2016-07-31a0cf176some punctuation
2016-07-31c611f72adds figures and punctuation
2016-08-012e841bbadds submodule for preso

Progress

Term three's progress tracking continued by Git commit messages

2016-08-2473c8aa2reorg and adding some python 101 workshop stuff
2016-08-27c3c1f6ereproof
2016-09-1861bc708add bold test ufo and pdf, day 1 workshop 1
2016-09-18627a081add bolder ultra test, add superpolator test, fix riter base original
2016-09-24a719138add cgilyb to fattest riter weight
2016-09-257b4974dadd aenoRH to thin test
2016-09-258dad473add aeno to skinny
2016-09-2516b24ddadd skinny, wide, adjustments, contrast
2016-09-253719bdeadd silly scripty thing

2016-09-267113716PROOF: Includes initial variations; small spacing adjustments to all tests

2016-09-265869c9cmajor folder reorg
2016-09-26339e918higher level folder reorg
2016-10-016fffc23add kpfO to boldest, adjust regular
2016-10-0241a960fPROOF: add and to riter fattest
2016-10-03dd6d743adjust existing letters after crit

2016-10-08195b88efill out lowercase fattest

2016-10-16983829cadd adjustments after class crit
2016-10-169690728adjust other corrections from crit; add caps for ultra
2016-10-179955afbindex on master: 9690728 adjust other corrections from crit; add caps for ultra
2016-10-1711b5ca4WIP on master: 9690728 adjust other corrections from crit; add caps for ultra
2016-10-17fd0044d??? add J L ???
2016-10-1898205c6refinements and new characters
2016-10-21e59cb5cadd bold basic punctuation and adjust base comma
2016-10-216004080add single odieresis sample

2016-10-23c8c612aadd basic accents that are terrible

2016-10-28605b59fadd accented characters and adjust base figures
2016-10-29f9ed64dadd emoji workshop day 1
2016-10-301621bf8adjust a few accents in base, widen some base caps, fill out ultra caps

2016-10-30bf56401add emoji workshop day 2

2016-10-31939ce75add proofs and change naming
2016-11-0399ba918add poster
2016-11-03d24ecffa little more on specimen
2016-11-031522eb3add images
2016-11-0539a0cbfwip fill out specimen
2016-11-05701b8admostly filled out specimen, start postcard
2016-11-057637771edits to basic, first stab at ouija board
2016-11-06ea8e324add extra characters and missing assets
2016-11-06a601927correct punctuation and accents, update specimen
2016-11-06a033df4add specimen files for print

2016-11-07a555717add a few special characters

2016-11-07a297122add flags for ouija
2016-11-09f446331new poster
2016-11-09402f7c1add plate files
2016-11-11255396dupdate to latest
2016-11-13557f7eareorg proofs

Comparison

Comparison from start of term to end of term

Start End

Comparison

Comparison from start of term to end of term

Start End

Start End

Comparison

Comparison from start of term to end of term

Start End

Start End

Character Set

The final Roman character set for term one.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890
!?,.;:#*$'"

Character Set

The final Roman and Italic character sets for term two.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890
!?,.;:#*

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Character Set

The final Roman, Italic and Black character sets for term three.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
àáâäçèéêëìíîï
òóôöñß
1234567890
!?,.;:#*$'"
[(“&@~”)]

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
.,“”

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
.,!?

Proofs

A single crappy proof from the end of term one.

Proofs

A few slightly better proofs from term two.

Proofs

A snappy specimen

Check out term two!

Check out term three!

Application

Since Riter is for ‘riting’, here’s a little test drive application.

See standalone application