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Eric A. Meyer

I know I have very little ground on which to comment on the beauty of a typeface, but this variable font is *SO GOOD* and I really wish I’d found it before “CSS: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition” published a month back, because it would have been **perfect** for the examples in the Fonts chapter.

Try out all the features and variability of Elstob at psb1558.github.io/Elstob-font/, which also links to a Github repository where you can get it.

Elstob A variable font for medievalists (and others) BASED ON TYPES USED BY THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES. Honoring Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756), pioneering scholar of early English literature Licensed under the SIL OpenFont License Free for all to use Image of the title page of an old book, reading (with “long s” glyphs which read as lowercase “f” to the modern eye): AN Englifh-Saxon Homily ON THE BIRTH-DAY OF St. GREGORY: Anciently ufed in the Englih-Saxon Church. Giving an Account of the Converfion of the ENGLISH FROM PAGANISM TO CHRISTIANITY. Translared into Nodern Finglish, with Notes, &c. By ELIZ. ELsTOB. LONDON: Printed by W. Bowyer. MDCCIX.
13 Jul 2023 at 15:19 | Open on mastodon.social
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Raphael

@Meyerweb Thank you for bringing the concept of variable fonts to my attention!

13 Jul 2023 at 15:20 | Open on wandering.shop
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@Meyerweb When is CSS: The Definitive Guide, 5th Ed., coming out? (I thought I’d seen a forthcoming release data a few months ago, but can’t find one now…)

13 Jul 2023 at 15:23 | Open on nojack.easydns.ca
Eric A. Meyer

@tantramar May 30th! Of 2023, I mean. It’s… large.

13 Jul 2023 at 15:24 | Open on mastodon.social
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@Meyerweb Oh! And do you have any preference as to where one purchases it? (My previous editions were all iBooks/Books, but…)

13 Jul 2023 at 15:27 | Open on nojack.easydns.ca
Eric A. Meyer

@tantramar Nah, not particularly. What works best for readers is what works for me.

13 Jul 2023 at 15:27 | Open on mastodon.social
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@Meyerweb Went Kindle for a change. Thanks for reminding me of this — it had fallen off my radar. :) @estelle

screenshot of Kindle order for CSS: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition
13 Jul 2023 at 15:32 | Open on nojack.easydns.ca
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@Meyerweb Sorry — just found it. July 17. :)

13 Jul 2023 at 15:24 | Open on nojack.easydns.ca
Luis Villa

@Meyerweb yeah, it is gorgeous. I immediately wanted to switch the headers in my blog to it.

13 Jul 2023 at 16:15 | Open on social.coop
Eric A. Meyer

@luis_in_brief Hard same. It would fit my design so beautifully…!

13 Jul 2023 at 16:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Ralph Giles

@Meyerweb That's a nice font! Always nice to see new work with an open license. No support for Egyptian transliteration, unfortunately.

13 Jul 2023 at 19:38 | Open on octodon.social
eyrea

@Meyerweb It's gorgeous and I am so using it!

But I'm not sure why they say it's for medievalists when it's definitely post-medieval. Renaissance and Enlightenment, yes! But not medieval (unless, you know, they just like it anyway).

13 Jul 2023 at 21:04 | Open on mstdn.ca
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