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FF Ernestine released
At long last, after three years of work, I am extremely happy to announce the release of my first commercial typeface, FF Ernestine, with FontShop International today!
Microsite with typeface showings and further info:
http://ernestinefont.com/
Get the fonts here:
https://www.fontfont.com/fonts/ernestine
This typeface took its first little stumbling steps at the CAS Type Design program in Zurich, as well as right here on Typophile, where Ernestine's own critique thread, started in January 2009, has seen it mature quite a bit.
After I stopped posting updates there, I teamed up with Hrant Papazian, who drew an Armenian companion to my Latin design while I was making the Italic. We've drawn four weights, and every font now encompasses almost 1200 glyphs (in the complete "Pro" version).
My warmest thanks to my friend and project partner Hrant, to the brilliant folks at FSI who have taken such good care to make Ernestine really ready for market, to friends and teachers from the CAS 2008 class, and last but most certainly not least to Typophile itself, especially Ben, Craig, Sindre, and everyone else who helped this insane journey reach an actual, tangible end. ♥
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15 Dec 2011 — 9:19am
Fantastic, I'm so thrilled to see FF Ernestine. Well done to both of you.
15 Dec 2011 — 11:06am
My own part in this is "only" two years old. :-) It started when Nina took a leap of
faith and agreed to let me make an Armenian component (nicknamed "Vem", which
means "monolith") and even convinced FSI to publish their first Armenian design!
Now the fun part will be watching Ernestine used widely and wisely.
hhp
15 Dec 2011 — 11:52am
Hallo Nina,
die Fonts machen einen guten Eindruck - Gratulation!
Drei Jahre - wie schnell die Zeit vergeht.
15 Dec 2011 — 11:53am
My very best wishes for Ernestine, and warm congratulations to you both!
15 Dec 2011 — 12:16pm
It was great fun to see this develop, and a long-awaited pleasure to see it released. Congrats and best of luck!
15 Dec 2011 — 1:45pm
Lovely font, great job! I just purchased it and am very excited to put it in use.
15 Dec 2011 — 2:48pm
Nice work, keep it up!
I especially like the 'ff' ligature solution.
That's different. Interesting...
15 Dec 2011 — 10:41pm
I just got the Fontshop.com newsletter and Ernestine really struck me. Beautiful!
16 Dec 2011 — 5:07am
Well done, Nina! Gratuliere!
16 Dec 2011 — 5:51am
Congratulations!
16 Dec 2011 — 8:56am
Thanks for all the amazing feedback, here and elsewhere – I am overwhelmed! And so glad to hear that some of you find it useful and nice.
16 Dec 2011 — 11:53am
I purchased the font as well, it's wonderful. Thank-You!
16 Dec 2011 — 8:24pm
Congratulations!
17 Dec 2011 — 12:56am
Congrats, Nina!
One thing that confuses me: As it seems, you can buy Ernestine either from fontfont.com or from fontshop.com. Only the latter is offering Pro and Offc versions. What's the strategy?
17 Dec 2011 — 2:01am
Thanks, all!
Tim: I hope someone from the FSI side will chime in, but as far as I know both fontfont.com and fontshop.com should sell the same versions – 3 formats (OpenType, Office, Web) × 2 character set «sizes» (Standard & Pro). On fontfont.com, after you hit «Buying Options» you should be able to select both file format and character set.
17 Dec 2011 — 2:20am
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Of course, it's controlled by the buttons. Somehow, I (or some part of my brain) was expecting these options to appear in the lists below so I missed them.
18 Dec 2011 — 5:26pm
Congrats, Nina. I love Ernestine and purchased it, as I told you on Twitter.
18 Dec 2011 — 7:04pm
Warm, clear, lively, and strong. Mazel tov, Nina and Hrant!
19 Dec 2011 — 4:10am
Thank you warmly, gentlemen.
19 Dec 2011 — 12:04pm
This is a really nice addition to the humanist slab genre. It makes a good alternative to Archer and Adelle, among others.
19 Dec 2011 — 8:14pm
Congratulations to both of you! I plan on using this "wisely" in the near future
20 Dec 2011 — 8:37am
Late to the party.
Congrats.
I was about to wonder if it would ever be released ;-)
20 Dec 2011 — 9:08am
Dude, 2-3 years is nothing. :-)
hhp
20 Dec 2011 — 9:27am
It sure felt like a long time. But as I was doing this for the first time I also did a bunch of things in really roundabout ways (and/or multiple times: for instance the spacing of the Roman was completely re-done 3 times over the course of the project). I am sort of hoping the next one will be quicker. Too daunting otherwise :-)
20 Dec 2011 — 10:38am
Congratulations Nina, it looks beautiful! :-)
20 Dec 2011 — 11:10am
BTW, one hopefully interesting factoid is that Ernestine
is the first* retail font to have used the Trapping Flower**,
which Nina leveraged comprehensively and consistently.
In fact I used the parameters she nailed down for the Latin
when I trapped the Armenian. :-)
* Actually, I should say the first that I know of,
since I've explained the thing to numerous designers.
** http://themicrofoundry.com/ss_trapping1.html
hhp
29 Dec 2011 — 2:13pm
Thanks again for all the nice comments. It's truly beautiful to see this out there now and received so warmly after all the work!
I just wanted to put in a friendly reminder that the outrageously cheap (no, really) introduction sale on FF Ernestine Pro family packages* is only good for 2 more days. On 1/1/2012 all prices will hit «normal» levels.
*Specifically, intro prices are good for all 3 «Pro» family packages: OT Pro, Offc Pro, and Web Pro.
29 Dec 2011 — 2:29pm
Ideally of course you should have too much fun for New Year's,
forget to buy it at the steep discount, and then kick yourself and
make a New Year's Resolution to fork over the full amount. ;->
hhp
31 Dec 2011 — 11:52am
Good work Nina! Have a great year sales. \·>
15 Jan 2012 — 1:18am
ÜBERКРУТО – Want Armenians in the K FAMILY too!
K.
15 Jan 2012 — 5:03am
That would be remarkable Mister K.
SB
23 Feb 2012 — 1:22am
So good!
24 Feb 2012 — 9:23am
nice one, love it!
27 Feb 2012 — 6:26am
Thanks! :-)
I'm beginning to see the appeal of seeing one's fonts used by other people. Loving it. Definitely something to continue...