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New release: Bruno – An easy to use multilayer ribbon font:
Posted by DieBuche in
28 Nov 2012 — 9:26am
28 Nov 2012 — 9:26am
Bruno is an innovative multi-layered font which I developed at the KHB (University of Arts Berlin) under the guidance of Luc(as) de Groot.
It's basic form principle is that of a ribbon, folded and bent in space to produce the glyphs. I named it after my grandfather who was a poster designer and thus hand drew a lot of custom fonts.
Traditionally the use of multi-layered fonts can be very clumsy, since you often need to duplicate text fields and then align them precisely on top of each other. Not so with Bruno: I programmed an InDesign plugin for it that automates the whole progress. There's a one minute demo video here: https://vimeo.com/54004048
The font contains all necessary glyphs to display eastern, middle, and west european languages.
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28 Nov 2012 — 12:00pm
Great concept and excellent execution!
28 Nov 2012 — 2:02pm
How does the plugin work?
28 Nov 2012 — 9:41pm
Wow, cool.
BTW isn't writing an InDesign plug-in hard?
hhp
29 Nov 2012 — 8:06am
Nicely done, Leo.
Unfortunately, the MyFonts link on the demo page is not functioning yet.
29 Nov 2012 — 12:56pm
Nice work! You can get some really neat contrasts with the double colors.
I'm currently working on a typeface with layering as well. It's a pity Adobe scripts are still a bit crummy to implement, that's what they can get away with sadly as market-leader. I have to go with ID/Illustrator scripts as well but I'd rather have something simpler.
29 Nov 2012 — 1:06pm
Thanks all!
@hrant
It got much easier in the last years, but more than half of my code ist stuff that works around a lot annoying InDesign bugs. Finding these & finding a fix is usually a PITA
@Nick
The plugin copies the textframe and activates a special OT feature on that copied frame. If anything is changed on the original textframe (content, position etc.) it's mirrored to the copy.
@Grant
Unfortunately Adobe trademarked my grandfathers name, so MyFonts took the font down. I'll now have to come up with another name. It's still available to buy at leo-koppelkamm.de/bruno
Leo
29 Nov 2012 — 2:11pm
Cool! Congrats!
9 Dec 2012 — 3:32am
Very nice one. Even with its new name :-)
http://leo-koppelkamm.de/blu/
9 Dec 2012 — 3:57am
Wow! Spectacular, especially considering all of the limitations of "professional software" you had to work around...