Comments on: Subscripts: Smashing Free Fonts

By: Jos Buivenga (exljbris)

Jos Buivenga (exljbris) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:39:33 +0000

Hi Jens Ole,

The Fertigo - Rockwell connection is indeed very nice. The slabs do really work well with Fertigo. Couldn’t help thinking of Museo, but I guess you would lose most of your retro look.

Please keep igniting your creative potential ;-)
Jos.

By: Jens Ole Amstrup

Jens Ole Amstrup — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:19:57 +0000

Hi Jos
Museo is sort of a semi slab serif with a modern touch - and its great! Thank you for the tip. As you can see on my site, I have chosen a slab serif - ROCKWELL - for now as my company font. I like the cool retro look an I think it’s a very legible font with a lot of graphic potential.

Keep up your very fine work on type :-)

Jens Ole

By: Jos Buivenga (exljbris)

Jos Buivenga (exljbris) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:56:21 +0000

Looking great Jens Ole! Looking at your site … you could consider Museo for the rest of your corp id ;-)

By: Jens Ole Amstrup

Jens Ole Amstrup — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:36:50 +0000

Hi
Thanx for the font. Fertigo is now a part of my corporate ID. Fits like a glove and simply was what I was looking for.
Jens Ole

By: Jens Ole Amstrup

Jens Ole Amstrup — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:36:50 +0000

Hi
Thanx for the font. Fertigo is now a part of my corporate ID. Fits like a glove and simply was what I was looking for.
Jens Ole

By: Gia

Gia — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:17:37 +0000

I preffer Fontin but all Jos’s fonts are pretty awesome.

By: Chitti Babu

Chitti Babu — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:37:34 +0000

fertigo- is too cool, brilliant!!!

By: johno (iLT)

johno (iLT) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:01:45 +0000

Stephen
As far as I’m aware there is no italic in Moderna. It’s called an oblique. Personally, I don’t have any problem with obliques, so long as they are labelled as such. When they masquerade as italics, then I have a problem.

Perhaps you have a different version of Moderna? Mine has nothing claiming to be an italic.

Jos
I’m pleased to hear that. Great news, and well deserved.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:08:23 +0000

"it's simply slanted"Moderna is an example of what happens when an amateur cuts corners. It's easy to make a distinction between professional and a hobbiest type, but sometimes it can be difficult to pinpoint the exact differences. In Moderna, the italic is not really italic but obliqued. Mark Simonson explains the difference.

By: Nenad

Nenad — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:49:01 +0000

I would say preatty much of all this fonts are nice. If I had have to name 3 or 4 favorites in this list they would be:
1. place - Steiner
2. place - Kontrapunkt
3. place - Fontin Sans
4. place - Scriptina