Typophile - instant-messaging font - Comments

> The font is actually FF

Stephen Coles — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:20:06 -0800

> The font is actually FF Meta without some vowels.

More precisely: there are vowels in FF Mt, but they are only as small caps at x-height.

Marc: Still available. Jan:

Florian Hardwig — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:30:19 -0800

Marc: Still available.
Jan: Hehe!

Florian. Kaum zurück, schon

Jan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:27:05 -0800

Florian.

Kaum zurück, schon schneller als ich.

Wasn’t this a free

marcox — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:26:54 -0800

Wasn’t this a free FontShop download? It’s not currently available, as near as I can tell.

Yes (it was by Spiekermann).

Jan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:25:48 -0800

Yes (it was by Spiekermann). The font’s name was FF Mt. Was/is a free download from Fontshop. The font is actually FF Meta without some vowels.

Hi Paul, yes, that was FF

Florian Hardwig — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:24:56 -0800

Hi Paul,

yes, that was FF Mt™.
Check the release date.
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instant-messaging font

inferno — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:19:29 -0800

A year ago I read about a font that truncated the spelling of words to mimic the abbreviated spelling that you often find in text messages and instant messaging. For example, this font would truncate “Vancouver” to “Vncvr”.

What was this font?

Was it a Spiekermann design?