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Marcus Haslam
20 December 2010

Design Museum exhibition London

Notes Ubuntu

Something exciting next year Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag has been asked by the Design Museum London to put on an exhibition of his work. This is a collaboration between ourselves and DM, the exhibition will be in two parts a substantial part of which will be featuring the Ubuntu font. Exhibition from 28th January

Marcus Haslam
20 December 2010

Canonical
18 November 2010

The monospace is coming

Design Ubuntu

In contrast to a proportionally spaced font a the characters in a monospace occupy all exactly the same width. In the past monospace type was used on typewriters, and more recently in some specialised printing environments such as Credit Card embossing, or ticketing. Today, monospace fonts are primarily used within a...

Canonical
18 November 2010

Canonical
4 November 2010

Of hinting and tables

Design Ubuntu

I hope regular readers of the design blogs don’t think that we have abandoned our programme of telling you all about the font development – I know it’s been a while since the last post. The 10.10 launch and UDS are over and it’s been great to get some feedback from people about how much

Canonical
4 November 2010

Canonical
15 October 2010

A space odyssey

Design Ubuntu

Time flies and it’s already time for our next blog entry on the design of the Ubuntu font suite. Below my colleague Fabio Haag explains the joys of spacing and kerning. Type designer from past to present all agree on one thing: the spacing between the letters is as important as the letters themselves, if

Canonical
15 October 2010

Canonical
4 October 2010

The weird and wonderful world of Latin Extended B

Design Ubuntu

Below, Amelie Bonet from the Dalton Maag design team shares her thoughts: Latin Extended B is a block (0180-024F) within the Unicode standard. With its utterly mundane name no-one would guess the wealth of shapes and glyphs. This specific and somehow obscure character set gathers 195 glyphs supporting a good mix of...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Canonical
1 October 2010

This week in design – 1 October 2010

Design Ubuntu

It’s _almost_ there. Happy “so close to release I can almost taste the Ubuntinis” Day everyone! And if you’ve not tried an Ubuntini, well you should. The next release of Ubuntu releases on the 10th October but the release candidate is out there now and as I write this the final release meeting of the

Canonical
1 October 2010

Mark Shuttleworth
28 September 2010

Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type

Design Ubuntu

The Ubuntu font represents the values of Ubuntu and Canonical, distilled into a typeface that is highly legible on screen, clean and balanced in print, professionally designed yet imbued with the wisdom of the whole Ubuntu community. I hope it’s a benchmark for more libre font work, and a catalyst for improvements in...

Mark Shuttleworth
28 September 2010

Canonical
23 September 2010

Intial Hebrew trials

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu project is going full speed. We have started intial work on the Hebrew and would like to share a few thoughts with you. This PDF illustrates how we arrived at some of the basic proportions. Pages 1 to 5 deal with the proportional relationship of the Hebrew height against the Latin x- and

Canonical
23 September 2010

Canonical
15 September 2010

It’s all about Greek

Design Ubuntu

We are familiar with the Latin alphabet; we are used to seeing it’s forms and shapes and we read it without thinking. When we design Latin fonts, we can rely on our intuition and experience to create the letter shapes; we feel when a character is right or wrong. When designing a non-Latin typeface we

Canonical
15 September 2010

Canonical
10 September 2010

Which way to slant the Hebrew

Design Ubuntu

Here is a design conundrum: which way to lean the Hebrew Italic design. Logic, and probably common sense, would dictate that it should slant in the reading direction. However, I think we have to consider wider implications on this issue, and I would like to ask for the community’s opinion on this issue. Personally, I

Canonical
10 September 2010

Canonical
9 September 2010

Charactersets

Design Ubuntu

In this latest post discussing development of the Ubuntu family of fonts, Bruno discusses scope, charactersets and what’s coming as part of the Ubuntu typeface. Where do you begin, where do you stop? In the case of the Ubuntu font project, the second part of the question is easily answered – when all the glyphs

Canonical
9 September 2010

Canonical
20 August 2010

A true italic

Design Ubuntu

In this latest post from Dalton Maag Lukas Paltram updates us on the development thinking that went into the italics in the new Ubuntu font family.

Canonical
20 August 2010

Canonical
13 August 2010

Finding the Ubuntu font design

Design Ubuntu

In our second post from Dalton Maag we get an insight into the origin of our very own Ubuntu font.

Canonical
13 August 2010

Canonical
10 August 2010

The first milestone

Design Ubuntu

As work on the font continues we thought it would be good to get some insight from the people working on developing it. In the first of these posts, Bruno Maag explains where the team are and what’s coming.

Canonical
10 August 2010

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