Ancestors

Written by Kent Lew on 2024-09-06 at 13:18

This flew largely under the radar: Last month, 21 years almost to the day, I released a long overdue update/expansion of the original Whitman fonts — the culmination of refinements, additions, and enhancements made over the past two decades, many for my own professional use. Since text reflow cannot be entirely ruled out in standing matter, the new fonts have been rechristened Whitman Text. These are now published under my own shingle at Type Network:

https://store.typenetwork.com/foundry/kentlew/fonts/whitman-text

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Written by Kent Lew on 2024-09-06 at 13:21

Notable design changes:

• quotes & commas redrawn slightly larger

• question mark completely reconceived (I was never crazy about my original)

• several accents refined, and flattened uppercase/small-cap variants added

• feminine & masculine ordinals underlined and repositioned

• serifs strengthened slightly in Regular weight; contrast sharpened in heavier weights

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Written by Kent Lew on 2024-09-06 at 13:26

Additions:

• extensive language expansion, of course; also {mark/mkmk}

• expanded set of f- and ff-ligs

• small caps now in all weights and styles

• additional case punctuation and all-small-caps punctuation

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Toot

Written by Kent Lew on 2024-09-06 at 13:29

Plus:

• tabular figures & currency for both lining and oldstyle (duplexed across all weights)

• sups/numr/dnom/sinf figs for footnotes, fractions, chemical formulas, etc. (including valences [⁺⁻⁼₊₋₌] and period/comma/parens/brackets)

• sups/ordn/sinf versions of basic lowercase plus è

• various symbols: recycled paper ♾; sharp/flat/natural ♯♭♮; superior variants for standard reference marks *†‡§; true primes ′″

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Descendants

Written by Kent Lew on 2024-09-06 at 13:30

The original fonts have been retired. Existing licensees of Whitman can get the Whitman Text upgrade at a discount until 9/13. If you didn’t get the email from TypeNetwork, message me.

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