Typography work and typefaces designed by Terrence Curran.
Most of the work contained within this repo consists of fonts I deslgned and distributed on grilledcheese.com between 1997 and 2000.
All of the original work was done on a Mac Quadra 700 or Performa 6200CD. I have all of the technology I used including the software and sketches on paper but the files are spread out on dozens of 3.5 inch floppies or zip disks.
I have begun to undertake the task of attempting to properly archive and organize this work. As I do so I am cleaning up and improving a lot of the fonts and releasing them her under the SIL Open Source Font license.
I have chosen to convert all files to FontForge format for the following reasons:
- I want to make sure that they are archived and can be edited by anyone for free, now and into the future.
- FontForge .sfd file format is consice and text based. It is easy to diff or parse by means other than FontForge.
- FontForge seems to behave most similar to Fontographer of all of the programs I have tried using. I'm getting old and have less patience for learning new tricks. :)
I considered only saving the files into UFO font format which looks nice and is open but it seems a little harder to keep track of the individual files. I will be outputting the font files to UFO and saving them here from time to time. Perhaps in the future I can automate this with some sort of continuous integration.