Shantell Sans, from Shantell Martin, is a marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation.
This release makes the following changes:
DŽ, Dž, dž are now correctly attached over the "z" in each glyph. (Closes #134)₱ (Peso) (Closes #130)This release makes two small adjustments:
’ and ”) to curl in a more typical way, mirroring the left quote. It originally curled in a similar way to the left quote, but I have since realized that this detail would only serve as a potential distraction to people who care about such things.Ẵ and ẵ.This release updates the variable axes to align with the Google Fonts Axis Registry, which just recently newly merged definitions for Bounce, Informality, and Spacing. Specific changes to Shantell Sans:
0 (default spacing) to 100 (max spacing), rather than the previous maximum value of 500. The design of the maximum hasn’t changed; it is merely now expressed as a percentage-based scale, rather than in units per em.IRGL) is now called “Informality” (INFM)
0 (Normal) to 100 (Informal)This release also fixes an issue where triangle glyphs (▲△▶▷▼▽◀◁▴▵▸▹▾▿◂◃) weren’t quite shifting as expected along the Bounce axis.
This release includes a bunch of little technical fixes and improvements:
0 under the OpenType feature zero
u just slightly rounder to more clearly differentiate it from v
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Hotfix, Oct 10: Simplified the release files to exclude static TTFs for Desktop, as these are mostly redundant. (If you really want these, they can be found in the repo.)
First, click on the .zip file below to download it. Then, unzip that file.
Quit out of any applications that might be using the fonts (like Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Word, Keynote, etc).
Finally, install the fonts:
Shantell Sans 1.006 folder into your <your_username>/Library/Fonts folder (which will have a path like stephennixon/Library/Fonts). Alternatively, you can install the fonts using Font Book.Desktop folder and dragging and dropping them onto the Font Settings window.If you instead wish to use these on the web, use the woff2 files in the Web folder. For more info on using variable fonts on the web, check out variablefonts.io.
Previously, there were three instance stops along the Bounce & Irregularity axes, at 0%, 50%, and 100%. This resulted in a total of 108 instances across 9 static subfamilies... which was a lot in a font menu.
This release is a test of narrowing down the instances to just give a bounce at 62.5% and Irregularity at 100%, which still gives a lot of typographic options, but narrows things down to a more-manageable 48 instances in 4 static subfamilies, while hitting the “sweet spots” of Bounce and Irregularity.
The variable font still include the full ranges of these axes, for those who want to use these in special cases such as illustration and animation. And, if you need these styles in static fonts for print design, check out Slice for making custom slices from variable fonts!
If you come across this release: enjoy, but please don’t post about it publicly just yet! This is a “soft launch,” intended for an open final font development stage. We will publicize a full release more widely, very soon!
This is the first non-private, OFL-licensed release of Shantell Sans.
This project is very near “final,” but there are still a few tasks to complete before this is fully ready for full publication on Google Fonts.
Hot fixes (changes added here without making a new release) as of 400ec29:
rlig feature, because it shouldn’t be turned off as often as calt isfrac) fixedThere will still be a few tweaks and refinements from here, but this is getting close to being ready for release.
Notably, it adds:
ital axis and as static fontsThis is the first release of Shantell Sans! It includes variable & static fonts for desktop & web installation.
See the Project Readme for more details.
Note: currently, a private-use license is included in the release download. This will likely be changed at a later point.