Fontlog File for Typey McTypeface ================================= I started out trying to design a font suitable for the inclusion of all the characters in the MUFI version 4.0 standard. This font was to be called 'Old Toby'. It is almost always better to start with an existing font than to start with a blank canvas, ideally you want to start with a font that is as close to your desired result as possible, it also has to be free and open source to avoid any licensing infringements. I needed a quaint old style looking font with some character but not an overpowering character. I happened upon a font called 'Chelsea' which was available as a free download. The metadata within the font did not contain much information about the author or license but I eventually traced the font to a German man called Deiter Steffman and I sent him an e-mail asking if I could use his font for a derivative work. Much to my delight he replied saying yes. Some time later there was a lot of news coverage about the name of the new arctic exploration vessel. The people commissioning the new vessel had set up a website upon which the people could vote for the name of the vessel. But then because they didn't like the name that the public had chosen they decided to ignore the vote and choose the name themselves. That is when the name for the font occurred to me. At first I tried to construct a quick and dirty font to get the name but it turned out to be a very poor looking font so I deleted it and decided to use the prototype for 'Old Toby' but just filled out enough to be a useful font under Windows. It has all the glyphs in the Windows Glyph List 4 plus a few extra. Meanwhile 'Old Toby' has not been forgotten, this font will eventually be developed into 'Old Toby'. The development of 'Typey McTypeface' ===================================== 8 September 2016 Bearings re-set, re-kerned and tidied up for release. Included the .FCP files in the .ZIP file, you don't need these unless you have the Font Creator software and you want to edit the font. 1 September 2016 Corrected a mistake in the lower case p and re-designed the lower case z. Updated the version number to 1.3 . 24 August 2016 Final testing and upload to Font Creator forum. 21 to 23 August 2016 Final debugging, kerning adjustments and correction of mistakes. 16 Aug 2016 More testing and correction of mistakes. 13 & 14 August 2016 Adjustment of metrics for best appearance on screen and page at a range of point sizes. 11 August 2016 Added Ligatures. 1 to 9 August 2016 Continued to re-design the italic font. 16 to 31 July 2016 Continued to re-design the italic font. 14 July 2016 Made an exact copy of the font, renamed it ‘Typey McTypeface italic’ and made many characters oblique. Then started to make it into an italic font rather than just an oblique font. 25 June to 12 July 2016 Continued to work on Cyrillic character set. 23 June 2016 Added partial Cyrillic character set with no outlines. Started to fill in some of the blanks. 11 to 21 June 2016 Continued work on Greek character set. 9 June 2016 Added a partial Greek character set from Kelvinch but then changed the design to match Tipey. 31 May & 2 June 2016 Started re-design of upper case characters. 28 & 29 May 2016 Continued the re-design of lower case characters. 26 May 2016 Added box drawing characters, Block characters and some smileys and arrows copied from Kelvinch. 24 May 2016 Re-designed many of the lower case characters. 19 May 2016 Didn’t like some of the characters in Chelsea so I re-designed M, N, Q and &. 16 May 2016 Imported ‘Chelsea’ font into Font Creator and started validating and correcting mistakes. Added SIL Open Font License and credits for Mr Steffmann. Re-named the font to ‘Tipey McTypeface’. 14 May 2016 Received permission from Deiter Steffman to use his ‘Chelsea’ font. Acknowledgements ---------------- (Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description (D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.) N: Paul James Miller E: kelvinch@virginmedia.com W: https://pauljmiller.wordpress.com/ D: Main designer of the derivative work called 'Typey McTypeface'. N: Deiter Steffman E: W: http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/index.htm D: Designer of the original 'Chelsea' font of which this is a derivative work.