Comments on: Font Update: Myndraine

By: kpss

kpss — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:49:41 +0000

thank you

By: Myndraine von Christopher Miller - blog.dersven.de

Myndraine von Christopher Miller - blog.dersven.de — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:31:59 +0000

[...] Myndraine ist ein solider und klarer Font. Leider nur im Regular-Schnitt, aber dennoch mit schönen Formen und einem eigenen Look. Mit 182 Zeichen – der downloadbare Ordner enthält otf Daten. via [...]

By: jamshaid47

jamshaid47 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:19:58 +0000

nice

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oil paintings for sale — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:42:18 +0000

Your work clearly shows your passion. Where are you getting the inspiration? Iyou’re your work on BIRTH OF A HERO and that one looks excellent, too.

By: shopping

shopping — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:20:01 +0000

When picking fonts, you need to ensure you keep quality fonts in the bag. Otherwise, you can have a million fonts but still only end up using a few.
At any rate, I don’t really like this font. The ‘y’ looks pretty good, but I don’t like the clinks on the ‘a’ letter. Nice font otherwise. I’m just trying to imagine where I would use it, as you say… I don’t think it would be used that often, but it most certainly could be useful at some stage somewhere down the line… for just the right thing.

By: asi dizisi

asi dizisi — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:48:46 +0000

very good

By: ebrown913

ebrown913 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:33:12 +0000

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By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:53:02 +0000

Lance Fisher @

If your font is the commercial variety, i.e. you paid good $$$ for it, then there are no legal restrictions. This should also apply to the fonts that came with any software. If you paid for the software licence, then you also “paid” for the fonts.
The tricky bit is when you using one of the many freeware/shareware/charityware fonts out there. My experience with this is that you should read the disclaimer that accompanies the font when you download it – the font’s author would have placed guidelines for use there. If in doubt, contact the author and ask him/her for permission to use it in a logo. 9 times out of 10 the answer will be a “yes”.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:19:45 +0000

Chris -

Wow, I didn’t know about the obsolesence of Post Script fonts. Thanks for the heads up!

By: Sanman

Sanman — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:25:08 +0000

Timothy @

I already have it in my feed reader ^_^

Bit & Other “typers” @

Thank you very much for answering and contributing to this really interesting thread.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:16:59 +0000

Some people who want to know more about typography may be interested in this blog. I have found it very informative.

http://ilovetypography.com/

By: Lance Fisher

Lance Fisher — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:50:26 +0000

I’m wondering, in general, are there legal restrictions to using a font in a logo? I can’t seem to get a straight answer from the Internet. If anyone knows, please enlighten me. Thanks.

By: DBdesignCo

DBdesignCo — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:08:39 +0000

why is there two Q’s and no upper case W …….? weird Speaking of fonts did anyone see the Helvetica movie yet?

By: ArchMedia

ArchMedia — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:06:25 +0000

Agreed, the kerning is slightly off, but for a free font, i’m not going to complain. Great post Bitt, keep em coming! I can definitly see myself using this in a logo down the road. Doubt i’d use it in a body of text, but that’s cause i stick to the old faithful fonts for that stuff…

thanks again..

By: Esben Thomsen

Esben Thomsen — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:28:14 +0000

Peter @

I agree, the font is uneven and the kerning is definitely off. Another inbalance is the capital S and T.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:03:09 +0000

It’s nice, but I really do think the kerning still needs some work. For example the “dra” in “Myndraine”, or the “fg” in the character set example look rather unbalanced to be.

If you just want to use the font for a headline or something like that, its no big deal at all to fix those manually, but if you want to typeset your body copy with such a font, it is a real pain to kern everything manually.

By: Myndraine, un tipo de letra limpio y robusto « Cosas sencillas

Myndraine, un tipo de letra limpio y robusto « Cosas sencillas — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:40:11 +0000

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By: Sin

Sin — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:11:03 +0000

Hey thanks for the info guys =) you all rock

By: BittBox

BittBox — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:59:40 +0000

These are the best comments. EVER!
The knowledge is not only impressive, but very useful.
Thanks all!

~Bitt

By: Chris Perardi

Chris Perardi — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:55:58 +0000

To really see the power of a good OpenType font (namely Adobe’s house fonts, such as Minion), you’ve gotta try out what InDesign can do.

Make a text box with a bunch of random Lorem Ipsum text, and then also throw in some numbers. Select all the text, open the Character panel, go to the little fly-out menu in the upper right of the panel, and go to OpenType. Then, select all the options like Discretionary Ligatures. And make sure you also hit Proportional Oldstyle. Then look at all the subtle changes to your text. It really makes everything look professionally typeset.

Oh, and a note on PostScript fonts: Try to phase them out, because Microsoft and Apple are looking to completely stop supporting them. Already some applications in Vista won’t use PostScript fonts, and Apple has said they can’t promise to support them after this year is out. I’ve seen issues where I work where PostScript fonts can lead to font cache corruption on Mac OS X. If at all possible, go OpenType. Almost all fonts from real, professional foundries are already making all their faces in OpenType, so it shouldn’t be a big deal. Don’t rely on PostScript fonts longer than you have to.