Stop drawing with Inkscape Spiro points and learn how to draw the glyphs in FontLabDraw the lowercaseDraw the ligaturesDraw the final formsNormalize stems to 144 points (now floating betwen 144 and 148 points).Draw the Capital lettersConvert 'fina' OT feature to 'calt, convert 'calt' to 'liga'Draw the Numbers and complete the full Latin-1 Charset.Add proper Kerning.Cyrillic(For version 2) More Weights from Upraight Version.- (For version 3) Draw a lot of crazy Swashes and Stylistic Alternates.
- (For version 3) Draw the alternate r in italic script shape.
- 2010/05/18: Lobster 1.3.
Full Latin1 glyphs coverage.
License changed to SIL Open Font License.
- 2010/05/10: Lobster 1.2.
More overlapping bugs fixed, it should be 100% OK now
If not, please let me know.
Also, the un-merged font lab source is now included, so you can help me in creating swashes and more alternates, or customize it to your needs.
Play arround and send it back to me at impallari@gmail.com to have your characters included in next releases!
- 2010/05/03: Lobster 1.1.
Overlapping bug fixed.
Full Latin1 Charset completed
Released under Apache 2 License.
- 2010/05/02: Lobster 1.0.
Out of beta!!!
Full Latin1 Charset completed
Released under Apache 2 License.
- 2010/04/06: beta 0.14.
BASIC CAPS NOW COMPLETED
Added more caps: E, F, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Added Alternates Caps & Ligatures: W.salt, T_h, T_i
More Kerning
- 2010/04/04: beta 0.13.
Added some caps: A, B, C, D, G, O, P, Q, R
Added some alternates caps: A.salt, A.calt, B.salt
Normalized all 'f' and 't' crossbars
Normalized 'o' and 'o.fina'
Added: ellipsis
More Kerning
- 2010/01/12: beta 0.12.
Lots of fine tunning. Stems normalized to 144 points (a-z)
Added ligatures: i_j, u_v. Added fina: i_j
Added more kerning pairs.
- 2010/01/09: beta 0.11.
Final forms where re-progammed once more, this time as ligatures.
This means that from now on, any program that supports ligatures will automatically replace the final letters of each word auto-magically!
This will result in a better use of the font. Since many programs have ligatures turned-on by default (Photoshop for example) and since activating 'Contexual Alternates' is no longer needed, everyone will benefit from this "more intelligent" font.
All glyphs have been fine-tunned and a few more added (at, eclam, exclamdown and semicolon). A few more kerning pais have been added.
- 2010/01/08: beta 0.10.
The 'fina' OT features has been re-programmed as 'contextual alternates'.
The overlapping issue should be fixed!
- 2010/01/08: beta 0.9.
Finally the 'o' is getting better!
It's crazy that a letter that looks so simple was the more difficult!
Also, the first donation has arrived! The love is flowing!
- 2010/01/07: beta 0.8.
Feedback so far has been overwhelming!
Luc Devroye has started mentioning the project!
Thanks to everyone of your!
Added glyphs: hyphen
Glyphs Redraw: a, b, o, (o.fina still sucks)
Glyphs FineTunning: d, f, g, k, o, p, q, r, s, t (lowered), v, w, b_s
Added Ligatures: a_s_z, aacute_s_z, b_s_z, c_z, e_s_z, eacute_s_z, f_i_z, f_l_z, f_u, f_z, g_p, g_z, i_s_z, i_z, iacute_s_z, iacute_z, j_z, m_z, o_s_z, oacute_s_z, r_z, s_z , t_z, y_z
Added Final Forms: fi, fl, fu
Added some more kerning
- 2010/01/06: beta 0.7.
Minisite is up. The font is on the cloud !! Let's fly !!
Started acepting donations! I'm counting on you !!!
Added OT features liga & fina.
Added Ligatures: a_z, aacute_s, aacute_s_x, e_z, eacute_s, eacute_s_x, eacute_x, f_f, f_f_t, f_t, iacute_s, iacute_s_x, iacute_x, l_z, oacute_s, oacute_s_x, oacute_x.
Added Final Forms: aacute_s, d, eacute_s
Added basic kerning, mostly for basic punctuation.
- 2010/01/05: beta 0.6.
Added Final Forms: a, a_s, aacute, b_s, c, e_s, e_x, eacute, g, h, i_s, iacute, j, k, l, o, o_s, oacute, s, t, u, uacute, x, y.
- 2010/01/04: beta 0.5.
Completed the lowercase a-z,
Added Ligatures: b_s_x, c_s, e_s_x, e_x, f_f_i, f_f_l, f_i_x, f_l_x, f_x, g_x, i_s, i_s_x, i_x, j_x, l_x, m_x, n_z, o_s_x, o_x, r_x, s_x, t_x, y_x.
Added Final Forms: e, m, n.
- 2010/01/03: beta 0.4.
Initial Release.
Lowercase: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,y
Diatrics: aacute, eacute, iacute, oacute, uacute
Ligatures: b_s, e_s, f_i, f_l, i_s, o_s, y_p.
Final Forms: i, o
- 2010/01/02:
Quick pencil sketches (yes, on plain old paper).
Turns out nicely. Let's make a font!!
- 2009/12/26:
Watching Lobster cooking recipes on youtube.
Did you know that the cheffs cooks the lobster alive?
Yumm... looks delicious!!!