Thanks for reminding me to look at the SIL site.

I found Charis SIL there which proves to be a useful addition to Open Source fonts. I intend to examine it more closely soon, but in the meantime I’m finding t an excellent font for PDF documents — being slightly more robust and so more legible in this form of document distribution.

As you say, Junicode is an interesting font with literally thousands of special characters for an academic specialty. If you look at the italics font I think you wwill agree that it is probably based on a Garamond version. While this is fine for printed material, I find Garamond to weak for PDF or web display.

I’ve referred Junicode to the appropriate faculty at the local university just in case they have missed its availability.

I too would like to see more consideration of Open Source fonts. I’ve looked at a few now, and found some of them very amateurish or just plain knock offs of well established proprietary products.

A review of the field could sort out the possible from the putrid.

Peter Baker’s Junicode has just released a new version. It’s designed as a font for medievalists, and contains all sorts of funny characters for that purpose, but it works beautifully when used for plain English text as well.

You present the perfect example of stuff ILT should never descend to.
You should probably use Kari’s “50+ groin-grabbingly awesome free fonts!!!” suggestion on your web site.

Well, speaking my thoughts I would say i always enjoy being on this blog except a thing which I miss. You should be offering a section where your visitors can drop some of the best “typographic posts”.

I just had a post on my blog Top 8 Categories of Typographic Logos
and was wondering how could I share it with you….afterall, you ar the master of typography :)

The quality is still there, even though the topics have evolved a bit. I’d imagine John would hang up the mittens before considering a “50+ groin-grabbingly awesome free fonts!!!” posts we see on every webdesign[insert writable surface here].com. It’s also hard to imagine ILT going the way of Smashing Magazine or Nettuts - offering downright dangerous and misinformed tips on subjects they have very little knowledge on.

Most of us read ILT because it is what it is - a great blog whose author has never compromised on quality (and rarely, if ever, on quantity).

As Able Parris already mentioned - the amount of work put into these projects is enormous. I can only partly relate, since I’ve only been involved with We Love Typography, but it’s safe to say that the effort put into it was probably a bit too much for the both of us. It was still worth it, no question about it. And that, I believe, is the driving force behind ILT and indeed every great website: doing good just for the sake of doing so, instead of compromising for profit.