Beorcana is finally released!
Hi Typophiles,
I’m very pleased to announce that Beorcana is finished and released: all 28 fonts. Tal Leming did the final mastering, and there were many helpful people who critiqued the shapes, diacritics and performance. It’s been a ponderous undertaking. My intention was to produce a workhorse book typeface without serifs, with display variants, for general use. I think it’s successful, but I’ll be very interested to see how people use it; a typeface comes to life with use.
Font will be posted for sale on fonts.com in mid-January. I’ll be updating www.beorcana.com with more information and a better specimen PDF when I come back from vacation in January.
26.Dec.2006 8.01am
Congratulations, Carl. It’s a wonderful achievement.
ps. What is ’mastering’?
26.Dec.2006 8.10am
Bravo Carl!
ChrisL
26.Dec.2006 9.11am
It’s gorgeous, Carl: I think I’ll look around for a project to use it in as a good excuse to buy it. ;-)
Linda
26.Dec.2006 10.07am
Congratulations, Carl! The hardwork has finally paid off! I also can’t wait for a good excuse to buy it!
26.Dec.2006 11.25am
Super, Carl Crossgrove, what a fantastic way to welcome a new year of works and passions.
Have a good rest and vacation.
26.Dec.2006 1.11pm
Wow — that is in my opinion one of the best typefaces released the last couple of years. I also love that it’s something that even can’t be compared with all the “look-a-likes” of the somewhat “trendy” typefaces that are released from different foundries all of the time.
This is far more unique and it’s letterforms will definately live a long life far beyond all of these trends.
I will definately remember Beorcana, and eventually buy it, as soon as I find a project to use it for.
Salutes from Sweden! Great work!
26.Dec.2006 3.36pm
Congratulations on finishing your undertaking! It’s a gorgeous typeface, hopefully once I’m out of school I’ll be able to buy it and put it to use!
26.Dec.2006 4.34pm
For those wanting a really good look NOW - try here:
http://www.beorcana.com/BeorcanaSpec.pdf
I hope to be reading text in this soon. It’s soooo comfortable.
26.Dec.2006 4.46pm
Congratulations, Carl! Printing the specimen right now :)
Could “mastering” mean making sure that the font naming convention, kerning table, etc. adhere to the established standard – like its term equivalent in audio recording?
26.Dec.2006 9.00pm
Great work, a masterpiece.
Héctor
27.Dec.2006 9.52am
Beorcana is a gorgeous typeface family and it will be very interesting to see how it gets used in the coming years. Can’t wait!
27.Dec.2006 10.45am
I just got my printed sample in the mail. The very small text is incredibly readable!
ChrisL
27.Dec.2006 5.38pm
how’d you get a printed sample, dez?
28.Dec.2006 4.07pm
Hello, all,
Thanks for the effusive congrats. The mastering I refer to is final testing and generation of OpenType fonts. I can do all that, but not easily or with as much confidence as Tal.
Paul, e-mail me your postal address and I’ll send you a specimen poster too.
29.Dec.2006 6.57am
Got mine in the mail and it’s one of the best looking stressed sans faces ever. :^)
29.Dec.2006 10.50am
Looks good, Carl. Congratulations!
1.Jan.2007 2.21pm
Nice work Carl.
Size-specific fonts in a non-serif typeface, implemented this thoroughly, is a great service to typography.
1.Jan.2007 2.50pm
Congratulations, Carl!!!
2.Jan.2007 10.26pm
Stunning.
I also enjoyed the story behind the name of your new achievement. Very clever!
Continue doing what you do best. Congratulations for revitalizing the display variants too!
6.Jan.2007 7.49am
It’s typefaces like this that keep me going. Spectacular!
9.Jan.2007 2.31am
At last the epic is finished, well done Carl!
A fantastic alternative to Optima, both in personality and weights/styles. This one’s going to run and run..
Gorgeous.
Nick Cooke
15.Jan.2007 10.17am
Beorcana fonts are now available!
15.Jan.2007 10.34am
Bravo!
It looks great
Congrats!
16.Jan.2007 10.20am
In an email yesterday, Carl also informed me that Mundo Sans Pro is available as well.
30.Jan.2007 11.58am
Beautiful. Seeing a hard copy at many weights is even more impressive than seeing it onscreen. It scales amazingly well. And, as others have noted, it really shines in very small captions...legible yet still very much itself.
Somehow, someday, I want to work with this font.
30.Jan.2007 11.58am
I also can’t say I’ve seen another full-family font quite like it. It immediately makes Optima and others of that persuasion seem dated.
30.Jan.2007 12.31pm
I got my hard copy today too. Superb! I can see I will be looking & learning for years to come. :-) Thank you!