Comments on: Malabar type family released

By: Muneef

Muneef — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:58:24 +0000

Oh boy!
Malayalam do urgently need some great fonts..
seriously looking forward for to it.
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By: Dan Reynolds

Dan Reynolds — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:23:28 +0000

There isn’t any connection to the Malabar region, other than what I mentioned in the comments above. But who knows? It would be great fun to design a Malayalam extension after the Devanagari fonts are finished! Thanks for your kind words, umd!

By: umd

umd — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:30:57 +0000

Face is nice and like it. being from the same region (i do not call it Malabar anymore for personal reasons!!) Kerala, I just can’t relate any character of Malabar in the font face. or was it intentional?
best,
umd

By: Muneef

Muneef — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:37:17 +0000

Wow, I’m pretty excited ;)
The font has ‘simple and neat’ touch of malabar..
Thank you Dan.

By: Dan Reynolds

Dan Reynolds — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:39:16 +0000

Muneef Satwick in one of the above comments is right on about the reasons for the Malabar name ("Malabar refers to the coast on the south western part of the indian peninsula. It is to the south of Bombay, near about Goa and extends southwards. Hills on this western ghat are also called malabar hills. Hope that clarifies!") But in your Malabar region, you have some of the world's best coffee, too. And that played a big role in the name. As I wrote on my own blog, after returning to Berlin from Reading, I spent a few additional months finishing up this typeface for its release. The nearest coffee shop to my apartment is Barcomi’s, in Kreuzberg’s Bergmann Straße. Quaffing copious amounts of India Monsooned Malabar was the balm I needed to complete these character sets.

By: Trevor Collins

Trevor Collins — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:15:21 +0000

Hi,

I like this font. To me it has en earthy feel groping towards the shapes you wood see on the old wood cut lettering.

By: Muneef Hameed

Muneef Hameed — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:15:49 +0000

Nice serif font!!
Well, I would love to hear (more on) why it was named ‘Malabar’.
I come from the ‘Malabar’ region (south India, Kerala).

By: Nate at Plasticprinters

Nate at Plasticprinters — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:55:40 +0000

Thats awsome! Love the font! It’s a great twist on the standard fonts I use for text and I think it will be a great addition!

Nate

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:22:08 +0000

I have a minor complaint… when I navigate to this post I see a block at the top that said:

“Google Search Results
You arrived here after searching for the following phrases:
* type
* Malabar
Click a phrase to jump to the first occurrence, or return to the search results.”

And then all the times “Malabar” or “Type” appear on the page they are highlighted. Problem is, I didn’t use Google to get to the page… I clicked on the link in the blog. And I can’t seem to turn this highlighting off, which makes reading the article and the comments difficult.

Do you have some sort of caching going on that is serving me a version of the page that was built for someone else? If so you might want to disable either the caching or the search term highlighting until you can get them to play well together…

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:21:17 +0000

I like it! It sort of reminds me of the type of fonts we used to created in design school (and I’m dating myself) with that flat, wide pencil (the name escapes me) that you had to sharpen with an x-acto blade (geez, an x-acto blade!) and hone on a sandpaper block.

Of course, now that you are gasping in horror at the “rock and flint” tools of the trade circa. 1983, I wonder what you would think when I tell you that I actually used to “paste up” type with rubber cement.

Ah, memories!