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LibrumE Book Font

Font Id: 58956
Font Name: LibrumE Book Font
Font Format: TrueType Mac/Win
Font Family: Librum ELibrum E
Glyphs: 248
Price: $24.95
Description: The major focus of my life and ministry at this point is book design. In the brave new world of 21st century self-publishing a new paradigm has arisen: the indie small shop. One of the problems is that all books are published as ebooks, and many books are published only as ebooks. There are two problems with this: character availability and licensing.

The licensing problem is solved by including an ebook license with all of the Librum, Librum E, Librum Sans and Bream fonts. The character availability is the core of the design. OpenType features do not work yet with ePUBs [though it is in the spec, if I understand correctly]. Kerning doesn't work, and so on.

So these five fonts have only the 256-character [or less] ASCII set. A separate small caps is included. It has lining figures {proportional} and small caps instead of the graphics. The other four fonts have graphics to give bullet choices in lists, oldstyle figures {proportional}, and care given to character shapes so they will work better without kerning.

For a great deal on the Librum Book Design Group, all fifteen fonts, please look at the bottom of the Buying Choices tab!
Posted by: David Bergsland
David has worked in printing and publishing since he began in 1971. As he progressed from illustrator, to graphic designer, to typographer, to art director, he fell in love with type. Yet he was frustrated by the fonts available—specifically the lack of oldstyle figures, small cap figures, and the rest of the typographic niceties needed for excellent typography. When he was asked to write the first textbook on the all-digital printing workflow in 1994, he decided he would need to design all the fonts for the book, as well. He was pleasantly surprised to discover that people liked his fonts, and that he sold quite a few. Since that time, he has design dozens of fonts and font families. He designs display fonts, but his heart is in body copy fonts, with a companion font for the headers using the same vertical metrics. Currently, he writes and publishes full-time. His personal, best selling book is "Practical Font Design With FontLab 5".
Posted on: Feb 06, 2017
Product Ranking: 14596
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Licensing available: Desktop, WebFont, Mobile App & ePub

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