I needed a type family that felt hand-printed. Lots of these fonts exist, but they have problems. Some are hard to use because their letterforms are overly varied. Others are limited to just the alphabet and a few punctuation marks. Almost none have multiple weights (which I find useful).<p>With Campy, I wanted to try my hand at creating a type family that addressed these points. So, I drew out a reasonably complete Latin character set (208 glyphs including accents, special marks, symbols, etc.) by hand. I then corrected each of the glyphs to be more consistent and aligned. From there, I added a total of 7 weights and corresponding italics. This project turned out to be pretty time-consuming.<p>I’m not a type designer, so I’ve probably done some things wrong with Campy. That said, I like how it looks casual without feeling too messy. Throughout the project, I came to look upon Campy a bit like Comic Sans, but (hopefully) more functional.
A beautiful typeface - unfortunately completely outside my financial range but a great typeface nonetheless.<p>I hope to seeing it in the wild sometime. Really, really beautiful
Another camp-y typeface showed up here recently, from the US's National Park service:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29573976" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29573976</a>
I have to pay more if my app or web site gets more traffic? No, I don't think so. Fonts are useful, but there is no way I'd let a font turn into a cost center.