When designing the Coelacanth typeface, my remake of Bruce Roger’s Centaur, I created the italics from scratch because I didn’t feel that Arrighi, the italic normally used with Centaur, really matches the roman. Arrighi is very nice, but quite different. Here’s what I did:
Of the hundreds of thousands of free fonts on the web, only a tiny handful are ‘text’ fonts suitable for plain text. Some of these have bold and italic variants, perhaps even small capitals; but almost none offer different optical sizes. In fact, when I began this project, not a single freeware font existed with …
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