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Planning for release
October 6, 2016
Planned release, which got delayed (made flyers for party that never happened)
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Planning for release
September 29, 2016
Made poster for the release party that never happened
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Testing, proofing
October 31, 2015
“Dunbar Drucksache.png”
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Dunbar Family Structure
August 19, 2015
“Dunbar_Family_Overiew.pdf” showing family structure Tall, Low and Caption (later changed Caption to Text)
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Reduced boldest stem weights for better contrast
July 9, 2015
Note: “*new_ultra is 80% between ultra and med” 🅢🅓
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Fine tuning stem weights for each styles
July 1, 2015
Trying to work out the exact weights using interpolation and extrapolation in Superpolator app (by Erik van Blokland) and UFO Stretch (by Frederik Berlaen) and ScaleFast RoboFont plugin by Loïc Sander 🅢
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Exploring x-height variations
March 14, 2015
Superpolator x-height tests “Dunbar xheight tests_1.5.sp3”
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Stem weight explorations
March 10, 2015
Note about stem weights in R 4.5 folder:
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Renaming boldest weight to Ultra
March 10, 2015
*** Extra Bold was renamed to Ultra. I later (2015-07-09) ended up scaling back the Ultra lc stems from 258 to 240 units
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Pushing the limits of the boldest stem weights
March 10, 2015
“draw extra bold 258 unit l/c stems”
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Fine tuning the lighter stem weights
March 10, 2015
“draw light @ 48 units, thin at 10?” 🅓 ***
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Tall, Low, and Text family structure
February 26, 2015
Dunbar_Grotesk_lowxht_1.33.ufo & Dunbar_Grotesk_reg_1.34.ufo & Dunbar_Grotesk_tallxht_1.33.ufo (started working with the concept of 3 different x-heights***) 🅢
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Naming Dunbar
February 25, 2015
Started using the name Dunbar in my files (name was suggested by Indra) 🅢
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What kind of geometic sans?
February 10, 2015
g_ometry.png (sketch) 🅢
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Trying different x-heights
February 9, 2015
Erbar_Grotesk_macht_stark_1.5_alt_xheight.otf 🅢 (was already trying different x-heights on the first day of this project!)
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Early sketching Pt2
February 9, 2015
Erbar_Grotesk_macht_stark_1.1.ufo sketch 🅢
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Early sketching
February 8, 2015
Erbar_trace_1.1.ai 🅢
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Initial research
February 2, 2015
Emailing with Indra about iconic pre-digital sans serifs 🅢
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