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Amble by Punchcut
Posted by John Lyttle in
13 Mar 2012 — 11:59am
13 Mar 2012 — 11:59am
I was surprised to see that Punchcut has a typeface available through Font Squirrel: Amble.
I say surprised because I had not seen any discussion of it here at Typophile, which – as they say – is a Punchcut gig.
Amble looks similar to Droid, doesn't it?
I'm curious: has anyone seen a release notice for Amble or a critique of the typeface?
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13 Mar 2012 — 12:02pm
Whoa, thanks for the link. We'll follow up with them.
13 Mar 2012 — 12:03pm
After looking into it further, I see Christian Robertson is credited with the design of Amble, and it is copyright 2009.
13 Mar 2012 — 12:04pm
Whoa indeed!
13 Mar 2012 — 12:23pm
"Amble looks similar to Droid" - of course, both humanistic dynamic text grotesques ))))
they should look similar. ))))
Italics and Lights looks strange - it's the hinting problem?
13 Mar 2012 — 12:23pm
John, Amble was designed by Punchcut. In 2010 Sun licensed it for inclusion in the JavaFX SDK for mobile handsets. Thanks for pointing out the FontSquirrel link. Any similarity to Droid stems from a similar creative brief over at Ascender Corp.
We use a web optimized version of Amble on our site as well, but it's not available in the SDK.