Buddy Slender
Buddy Slender is the narrower version of the companion sans for Contenu, the book font family designed for a book on book family design called Practical Font Design. It’s a loose, free, easy to...
font_designer: David Bergsland
Librum E
The major focus of my life and ministry at this point is book design. In the brave new world of 21st century self-publishing a new paradigm has arisen: the indie small shop. One of...
Contenu EBook
Because ebooks will not normally accept .otf fonts, and they don’t support Opentype features, this font family was designed to be used for the ebook conversions of print books. It uses old style figures....
Librum Sans
This is the companion sans family to make the Librum serif families work as well as they do. By companion, I do mean stylistically compatible. But mainly, they have the same vertical metrics. So...
Bookish
This all started with a love for Jenson. I know there’re hundreds of variations on that theme. But, that is where I began, several years ago. How far it came, as usual as I...
Briskly
There were several motivations for this font. It was a font in my style, a left-handed designer. But also, I wanted a script designed to work with ePUBs. This means fancy bullets in place...
Bream
This is the display version of Librum. Librum means “book” in Latin, which I thought was appropriate. Bream is Latin for proclaim—appropriate for display work. The fonts are very close to Librum-Book and Librum-Italic,...
Librum
This is the serif text family for the book design group of font families which David designed in the process of writing “Practical Font Design With FontLab 5”. The letterspacing is set wide for...
Boxy
In my on-going quest for display fonts to be used with my books and on my book covers, I decided I need a squared sans serif. I started the build off of Fiscal, a...
Bulkr
Over the years, I’ve used Impact a lot. But, not because I liked it—rather because it was the only font I could find with the bulk I needed for a given title or whatever....