Typophile - Anivers release - Comments

Thanks very much for the

Jos Buivenga — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:23:45 -0700

Thanks very much for the kind words James. Nice that Anivers has grown on you. That’s a real compliment!

How succesfull it will be has to be seen :-) I’ve timed the release and publicity around it so that I could reach #1 on the Starlets list in order to get mentioned in the Rising Stars July 2008 newsletter. Of course I hope it will hit #1 on the Bestsellers list, but the sales boost from Rising Stars that brought it on second place is allready over. It is going steady now and I hope it will hover somewhere next to Museo in a while.

Anivers is at the time of

James Arboghast — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:49:09 -0700

Anivers is at the time of this posting sitting at number two on the Myfonts Bestsellers chart. Will it wrest the number one ranking from Helvetica Neue?

I reckon yes, no problem. It’s the new champion.

Anivers has grown on me and I like the style now Jos. Congratulations, you have successfully challenged the preeminence of Helvetica! This is great. Success isn’t a big enuff word : ^ )

j a m e s

I’ve written an article on

Jos Buivenga — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:47:03 -0700

I’ve written an article on ilovetypography revealing a little more about Anivers. Hope you like it.

Yeah! Thanks for spotting

Jos Buivenga — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:45:35 -0700

Yeah! Thanks for spotting katharina. Don’t know how long it will on stay # 1, because I guess Aviano is a very well selling font.

André ... I’ll e-mail you this weekend.

Check the “Starlet”

Katharina — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:10:44 -0700

Check the “Starlet” rating at http://www.myfonts.com/starlets.html

I have got them now . Thank

AGL — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:49:29 -0700

I have got them now . Thank You. I did a second ’proof’ for Anivers Buivenga BC, with minor changes from previous version.

Happy Anivers -ário . I

Jos Buivenga — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:53:16 -0700

Happy Anivers -ário . I have got the “Regular”, so far.

That’s a good start ;-) I’ll e-mail you soon.

I especially like the descender of the long s in the upright font, and even more so the tapering of that very desc.!

Thanks! I’m pretty fond of the tapering of that descender (that’s also in the lc f) myself.

great job! looks very neat and I can see quite a few potential uses for this typeface.

Thank you! As a freefont it was my second most popular font with about 10,000 downloads a month and I’ve seen it used in quite a variety of designs. I hope that with the extension of the family this will continue. I have plans to update the family with a (free) bold italic and maybe with small caps for all weights/styles.

great job! looks very neat

victor ivanov — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:22:25 -0700

great job! looks very neat and I can see quite a few potential uses for this typeface.

Hm, lekker! I especially

aszszelp — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:50:04 -0700

Hm, lekker!

I especially like the descender of the long s in the upright font, and even more so the tapering of that very desc.!

Szabolcs

Happy Anivers -ário . I

AGL — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:39:27 -0700

Happy Anivers -ário . I have got the “Regular”, so far.

” I don’t understand. In a comix perspective, Avenir is a anti Univers, which makes me (you) think that if they met intentionally or unintentionally they would actually annihilate each other, causing a

PUFF! ? “

Thanks Bert. iKern is

Jos Buivenga — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:57:38 -0700

Thanks Bert.

iKern is (still) a service. It can’t be purchased or licensed. The font files are reworked by Igino and then send back. It’s not just a push on a button, because many variables are possible. We did some test runs to determin spacing (family wide) and the level (tight <-> loose) of kerning. In the process of the test runs I adjusted character shapes that needed a better fit. In the final release I adjusted a (very few) things manually. iKern makes it own classes for kerning and is extremely flexible. All still (fortunately) has to be judged by the human eye, but when decisions are made, all that is handled by iKern is in optical consistency truly great. For me it was a real time saver. It nearly felt that I only had to draw the glyphs ;-)

I really like the way the

bert_vanderveen — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:00:13 -0700

I really like the way the diagonally cut-offs in the roman give a sense of flow.

Jos, could you perhaps tell us (more) about the way iKern was used and what benefits that had (I guess there are some, because you must have finished this in a very short time)?

. . .
Bert Vanderveen BNO

Much appreciated. Thank you

Jos Buivenga — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:02:55 -0700

Much appreciated. Thank you Pedro.

I like it very much!

Pedro Leal — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:27:17 -0700

I like it very much! Congrats on your great work Jos!

I can imagine not everybody

Jos Buivenga — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:30:29 -0700

I can imagine not everybody liking it James. Thanks for the “well-crafted”!

Thank you Jos. Just did it.

Great! You’re welcome.

Anivers release

Jos Buivenga — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:31:52 -0700

Anivers is now available at MyFonts.com. Anivers comes in regular, bold, italic and small caps. The regular weight is absolutely free.