Typey McTypeface Font

Typey McTypeface family consisting of 2 fonts
  • Accents (partial)
  • Accents (full)
  • Euro
  • Smilies
  • Card symbols
  • Music
Typey.otf

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Author's note

Typey McTypeface font is a lovely serif typeface designed by Paul J. Miller.

I started out trying to design a font suitable for the inclusion of all the characters in the MUFI version 4.0 standard. This font was to be called 'Old Toby'. It is almost always better to start with an existing font than to start with a blank canvas, ideally you want to start with a font that is as close to your desired result as possible, it also has to be free and open source to avoid any licensing infringements.

I needed a quaint old style looking font with some character but not an overpowering character.

I happened upon a font called 'Chelsea' which was available as a free download. The metadata within the font did not contain much information about the author or license but I eventually traced the font to a German man called Deiter Steffman and I sent him an e-mail asking if I could use his font for a derivative work. Much to my delight he replied saying yes.

Some time later there was a lot of news coverage about the name of the new arctic exploration vessel. The people commissioning the new vessel had set up a website upon which the people could vote for the name of the vessel. But then because they didn't like the name that the public had chosen they decided to ignore the vote and choose the name themselves. That is when the name for the font occurred to me.

At first I tried to construct a quick and dirty font to get the name but it turned out to be a very poor looking font so I deleted it and decided to use the prototype for 'Old Toby' but just filled out enough to be a useful font under Windows. It has all the glyphs in the Windows Glyph List 4 plus a few extra.

Meanwhile 'Old Toby' has not been forgotten, this font will eventually be developed into 'Old Toby'.

Character map

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Basic Latin - charmap

Basic font information

Font family
Typey McTypeface
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Typey McTypeface:Version 1.301
Full font name
Typey McTypeface
Name table version
Version 1.301;March 28, 2021;FontCreator 13.0.0.2683 64-bit
Postscript font name
TypeyMcTypeface
Designer
Paul J. Miller & Dieter Steffmann
Description
This font was created using FontCreator 9.1 from High-Logic.com

It is a derivative work of the original 'Chelsea' font by Dieter Steffmann.

Modified and extended by Paul J. Miller.

Mr Steffmann's other fonts can be found at :-

http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/index.htm
License
SIL Open Font License (OFL)
License URL

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2016-05-14
Revision1
Glyph count723
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classNo classification
WeightSemi-light
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced
Complete pack contains 2 font weights listed below:
Typey.otf
Typey_Italic.otf
Typey McTypeface Italic OpenTypeGNU/GPL
  • Accents (partial)
  • Accents (full)
  • Euro
  • Smilies
  • Card symbols
  • Music
Typey_Italic.otf