I'm glad Nick Shinn's Pratt is finally available to the general public. I've admired it since seeing the copies of The Globe & Mail that Nick distributed at TypeCon Seattle.
The Pratt fonts aren't in the main Shinntype.com interface yet, where the Type Tester is. (My tech guy wasn't able to get the job done in time to coincide with the Featured Face advertising, but any day now.) However, there are links to a comprehensive PDF specimen, or click here for the specimen.
Nick, coming from a total beginner's perspective: Would you mind telling where the shape of Pratt's "k" comes from? Those look like some funky angles. :-)
You might have already been alerted to the fact that there is a punctuation error in the German sample text. In the second line from the bottom of p.22 of your PDF, there should be a hyphen followed by a word space instead of the dash ("Rede- und Glaubensfreiheit").
20.Jan.2009 6.15am
Nick: You should set up a better preview of your typefaces on Shinntype.com. It's hard to know what you're getting.
20.Jan.2009 6.16am
Oh, forgive me! I fell in to the web shop thinking you had redesigned your site.
20.Jan.2009 8.50am
The Pratt fonts aren't in the main Shinntype.com interface yet, where the Type Tester is. (My tech guy wasn't able to get the job done in time to coincide with the Featured Face advertising, but any day now.) However, there are links to a comprehensive PDF specimen, or click here for the specimen.
20.Jan.2009 10.15am
OK, Pratt is in the Shinntype Type Tester now.
20.Jan.2009 10.29am
Congrats, Nick!
ChrisL
20.Jan.2009 11.17am
Now we can design brochures for Pratt & Whitney using Pratt and Whitney!
20.Jan.2009 11.23am
;)
20.Jan.2009 3.21pm
Excellent work, Nick.
20.Jan.2009 7.59pm
What's the source of the name, Nick?
Is there going to be a companion sans called Twitt?
20.Jan.2009 8.29pm
The client?
20.Jan.2009 9.34pm
It's named after David Pratt, the design director at The Globe and Mail who commissioned the face for his redesign of the paper.
The companion will be called Pratt Sans, in the usual manner.
21.Jan.2009 6.31am
I think it works well on Typophile.
23.Jan.2009 1.39pm
Nick, coming from a total beginner's perspective: Would you mind telling where the shape of Pratt's "k" comes from? Those look like some funky angles. :-)
You might have already been alerted to the fact that there is a punctuation error in the German sample text. In the second line from the bottom of p.22 of your PDF, there should be a hyphen followed by a word space instead of the dash ("Rede- und Glaubensfreiheit").
23.Jan.2009 2.25pm
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Thanks for the correction.
23.Jan.2009 4.18pm
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