Whatacolour

I generally prefer simple fonts with as few points as it's possible but this time I decided to create a font emulating shades of grey and it requires a lot of points.

Creating the original design with a brush, watercolours and paper was rather fast and easy but then I spend more than a month experimenting with different approaches and programs to get the best result. In the end I wrote my own converting tool and after a lot of manual tweaking I finally end up with a font that's under 1 MB. It's still rather big and slow but it's much better than my previous prototypes. =)

Version history

0.55 2018-04-26
* tweaked: null
+ Whatacolour Solid

0.54 2018-04-23
* tweaked: AE

0.53 2018-04-18
+ panose
* tweaked: V ;
* kerning: // \\

0.52 2018-04-17
* tweaked: L W Z / \
+ endash emdash
* kerning: F+O F+CGS

0.51 2018-04-14
* tweaking margins: J Z Lslash

0.50 2018-04-13
* margin: F / \
* F+kerning T+kerning
* Lslash

0.49 2018-04-12
* G N Eth Hbar Tbar
+ mu quotes
+ kerning: L+ T+ Y+ V+

0.48 2018-04-11
+ Eth Hbar Tbar

0.47 2018-04-11
+ permille Lcaron

0.46 2018-04-11
+ common combined letters (+acute +caron +circumflex etc.)

0.45 2018-04-11
* fixed all intersections etc.
* basic set of letters and numbers is complete

0.30 2018-04-02
* reimported all glyphs with different rasterization

0.26 2018-03-09
+ quotes section lira bullet yen brokenbar onesup
* the font is too big and slow

0.25 2018-03-08
* basic set of letters and numbers is complete

0.24 2018-03-07
* optimizing number of points

0.22 2018-03-06
* optimizing number of points

0.20 2018-03-05
* start from scratch with an alternate rasterization

0.13 2018-03-02
* fixing intersections

0.12 2018-03-02
+ combined glyphs

0.10 2018-03-01
+ imported basic glyphs

0.00 2018-02-25
* sketch on paper

(eof)

0.55 (2018-04-26)

2018

En Cz Sk De Fr Pl ...

Free for personal and non-commercial use

Commercial license for the whole font family 12 euro

Font family members:

Whatacolour
Whatacolour Solid