Typophile - Dear Sarah - Comments

have you contacted veer

paul d hunt — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:07:33 -0800

have you contacted veer directly? from my experience they’re very helpful in solving issues such as this.

Great work on this font

Becks19 — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:16:49 -0800

Great work on this font Christian.

I’m hoping that someone can help me. I’ve purchased the OpenType version of the font from Veer and I’m having trouble with it in Photoshop CS.

All of the options in the type menu are greyed out for Dear Sarah, while Adobe Caslon Pro has the ability to check/uncheck ligatures, ordinals, etc.

Please help...

marcox — Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:16:38 -0800

Eric, maybe this will help:

In InDesign, go to the fly-out menu in the Characer palette. Look for the OpenType option, and turn on things like Contextual Alternates, Titling Alternates, Swash, etc.

eric_shew — Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:16:57 -0800

I'm truly sorry to raise a technical issue in this forum, but I'm frustrated and don't know where to go.

I installed Dear Sarah because I wanted to see the chaos built into the typeface at work. I'm using a PC that's brand new (less than two weeks old), Illustrator and Indesign CS, and Suitcase 9.2 - yet none of the open type features seem to work at all. When I type it out, I get no variations in letterforms.

If anyone has any ideas as to why this is happening please email me. Thank you very much.

eric@shew-design.com

Miss Tiffany — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:33:58 -0800

Just received the VEER catalogue. Congratulations Christian.

a few days late ... but happy for you nonetheless.

Grant Hutchinson — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:04:06 -0800

> Grant: Surely the Divergently sample can do justice to all the heartburn...

I know, I know. It pains me to see that as well. Due to a tight product schedule, we weren't able to get a custom display up for Dear Sarah as we intended to. However, I did attach Christian's marvelous PDF specimen to the page. The main display will get updated shortly to better represent this face.

aquatoad — Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:05:58 -0800

Ready, Steady, Go!

Congratulations Christian! Another triumph.

Grant: Surely the Divergently sample can do justice to all the heartburn that went into programming a smart v-e substitution. Especially in the Pro version! BTW, Stock photos on cake: Someone get into the sauce during the long Canadian winter? So random it's excellent.

R

Grant Hutchinson — Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:43:32 -0700

Dan Bailey:

jefferson — Tue, 5 Oct 2004 05:34:55 -0700

What a gorgeous typeface. This is several cuts above the various script faces I've seen. Sign me up as a future customer. Gorgeous work.

hrant — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:50:59 -0700

BTW, I just discovered that the ink blots font on that "A4" web site is lifted directly from an old metal font. Not too surprising, considering many of the other fonts on that site are lifted too...

I found out by casually browsing through a long-ignored book I have of vintage type specimens: "130 Alphabets & other signs, #1", J Rothenstein and M Gooding eds. A couple of other "interesting" precedents, shall we say, revealed in that book can be found on pages 105 and 136...

hhp

Sergej — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:03:25 -0700

Hrant, I don't know how to open the files once I unpack them on a Windows system. Any judging by the screenshot the inkblots look rather phony, so it's not a big deal. Christian's inkblots look as if they weren't supposed to be made; they look real. Having said that I don't remember last time I saw any real inkblots, so perhaps I should keep my mouth shut.

fontosaurus — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:45:33 -0700

Oh my god. Planning on selling this? Where, when and how much? I'd buy a copy.

neuroman — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 03:52:52 -0700

WOW! That RAND Feature is pretty interesting...the only thing that bothers me is that I don't have any clue how to implement it...I'm using FontLab (as you can assume)

hrant — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:02:46 -0700

Sergej, check out "Ornaments Ink And Pen" here:
http://a4.se/eng/typsnitt/lft_or.html

hhp

Sergej — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:51:23 -0700

Christian, I hope you don't get it the wrong way, but. I think the highlight of your script typeface are the inkblots and the absent copyright sign (at least in the sample). Do you mind if I borrow them?

Dear Sarah

Christian Robertson — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 23:11:09 -0700

I put this study together this afternoon. It was good to get out the ink and work on paper for once. I've been meaning to play with cursive contextual alternates for a little while. The good news: no kerning! The bad news: getting all the connectors just right. I'm not sure if this works yet; I'm still against handwriting fonts in general, but they're definitely cooler with some alternates mixed in, and with the connectors done right. I think to do it right I would need to mix in a bunch more alternates, but it's a start, and I like where it's going so far. The letters are pretty low res; my scsi scanner won't work with the powerbook, so I resorted to the digicam : (

contextual alternates
dear_sarah.pdf (40.7 k)