Barnbrook Gothic has been released on boards in Macintosh Type 1 & TT formats, and in PC Type 1 & TT formats. It is based on the amusing, intelligent - and I think striking - face designed by Jonathan Barnbrook. Barnbrook originally called his face 'Spindley Bastard', and I've used a grid similar to his to produce it (no autotraced characters here). Those familiar with 'Spindley Bastard' will notice many of the characters have been changed, and I've added some dingbats, a set of figures, and most accented characters. There is also a heavier version of the lower-case in 'BarnbrookGothic3'. If there is interest, I'll kearn and release 'Barnbrook2', a mid-weight, and one or two inline or incised weights.
Unlike Floriated Gill, my previous release, I've released a TrueType version of both BarnbrookGothic weights, for Mac and PC.
BarnbrookGothic & BarnbrookGothic3 are shareware. It is a family of two. If you use them, please send along $20 Canadian for Canadians, or $20 American for Americans and others.
Please feel free to bounce these fonts and the accompanying documents around on boards and commercial online services (especially any in Europe, where the accented characters would be better appreciated). Anyone wishing to include this font on a commercial CD-ROM disk should notify me first, just out of politeness.
Geoff Heinricks
Chevalier Gris Digital Foundry
216 Howard Park Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M6R 1W2
comments, complaints and suggestions to:
geoff_s_heinricks@magic.ca
"While at the RCA, I also designed "Bastard." which came from a pure desire to own a blackletter font. Since I couldn't afford to buy one, I decided to draw one myself (the arrogance of youth), and in the process discovered what a simple, logical typeface it was and what a definitive structure it had. It seem silly to try and mimic the stroke of a pen while drawing for the type on the computer. Instead, I set up a grid that allowed me to create modular parts that I could use to assemble both upper and lower case characters. I have since found out that Durer had used the same idea for the creation of a lower case about 400 years ago."
