My immediate goal is to extend these glyphs and features to bold and italic versions to create a rudimentary usable type-family. One of the fonts, 14-point Regular, has a high number of glyphs for European languages, Greek and Cyrillic, as well as small and petite caps, contextual glyph variants and advanced kerning. Coelacanth demo sheetĬoelacanth is a work in progress. Centaur was tremendously versatile, as elegant and readable in the smallest caption text as it was at display sizes. There are surprisingly few digital revivals of Centaur, and none that I know of providing the smaller optical sizes that were available in the original metal type. Taking up the challenge, I have been creating Coelacanth, a typeface inspired by Bruce Rogers’ legendary Centaur, described by some as the most beautiful typeface ever designed. In fact, not a single freeware font exists with a rich set of glyphs, weights and optical sizes - until now. Some of these have bold and italic variants, perhaps even small capitals but almost none offer different optical sizes. Of the hundreds of thousands of free fonts on the web, only a tiny handful are ‘text’ fonts suitable for plain text.
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