Hey everybody. I'm the designer of Norwester. Thanks for the interest and feedback. Yea, the font is really limited right now. Please use it judiciously as there are a lot of glyphs not accounted for, as digitalengineer pointed out. Please let me know if you have any special requests or catch any thing not looking right. Thanks again!
Great job. I saw this font on Designer News yesterday and downloaded it instantly.<p>I think creating a font from scratch could become a designer's <i>rite of passage</i>. It involves usability, aesthetics, and technical knowledge (kerning, weights, character encoding, horizontal and vertical metrics...). I always thought about creating one myself but usually ended up browsing the web for original and better designed fonts.<p>You got me questioning my behavior.
Thank you for putting the license in the zipfile. We've had to avoid using certain fonts because it wasn't possible to identify the license.<p>Can you please put another file with a link back to your website and the request to donate to the International Justice Mission if used?
Looks nice. It's Open Type so thats cool. However, no serious designer would choose this font for production as it is right now though. You dev's would call it 'Aplha' or 'Beta'. It contains only the 'Western' letters and even for that, not most variables. This makes it dangerous to use for your company's branding. Imagine if you want to write an é, ü, î or what not. You can not. So, nice to try a bit but be careful using it for production.<p>If you wish to compare it to something, have a look at these free fonts: <a href="http://www.exljbris.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.exljbris.com/</a> They're free for the Roman, Bold, Heavy, Italic and small caps, but if you want more variables, say a Heavy Italic you pay a small fee.
This font will be great to use in headlines. Will this font be available in Google Fonts [1]? Because Google hosts many fonts under SIL Open Font License .<p>[1] <a href="http://www.google.com/fonts" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/fonts</a>
Just to be clear: I submitted this but I'm not related to the OP. I just found it on <a href="http://sidebar.io/" rel="nofollow">http://sidebar.io/</a> earlier today and liked both the open license and the fact that the author seems open to suggestions.
I love the fact that you've asked people to donate to the International Justice Mission - they do great work! What made you choose them? Is the font somehow inspired by the work they do? (maybe you could convince them to incorporate it into a rebrand ;)!
Wow, an ASCII font. Useless in most part of the world (sorry for being dismissive. I actually like the font, but without any "funny" characters, it's use is very limited) Now, I'll probably get all the downvotes from today...
is this font legit?
it looks like it was build based on some other font, and there are still original/unchanged characters left.
f.e. try to render A, Á and notice the difference in font-weight and also the char differences.
or am i missing something?