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They're building a new font, right now.
Posted by riccard0 in
8 Jun 2012 — 7:53am
8 Jun 2012 — 7:53am
From Lost Type Co-op:
We are building a font at this very moment in San Francisco, and we are live blogging it in real time.
Various members of the Lost Type team (who have worked on our fonts and promotional materials in the past) have flown to San Francisco for a 4 day marathon to create a typeface inspired by the iconic city.
You can follow us in real time, in words and photos, here (http://www.fieldtripsf.com/).
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8 Jun 2012 — 10:47am
But they're going to have to find another name, there already is a font named "San Francisco":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(typeface)
From that web page:
so opportunity knocks!
'Twas the Comic Sans of its age, for certain.
8 Jun 2012 — 8:56am
Cool.
hhp
8 Jun 2012 — 8:56am
Ah, the memories... :-)
8 Jun 2012 — 3:48pm
wheres the pics? No live webcam? This doesn't seem very 'real time' to me at all.
8 Jun 2012 — 7:06pm
Maybe they realized watching someone create a font is likely one of the most boring things in the world.
8 Jun 2012 — 7:37pm
Yup, it's like Carter said.
Now, if you could read the mind of a type designer while he was working, that would be riveting.
hhp
9 Jun 2012 — 4:52am
For those too young to remember: Hrant is referring to a 2003 article in U.S. News & World Report in which Matthew Carter said, “Watching me work is like watching a refrigerator make ice.”
Classic.
9 Jun 2012 — 6:39am
It might be interesting to have a capture of everything being done on screen, not riveting but I would be intrigued to see the process or parts of it.
9 Jun 2012 — 6:47am
Not to derail, but what's this
http://jamestedmondson.com/images/type/about_3_1_1.png
from James's site?
hhp