These typefaces owe their origin to the free copy of Fontographer (or ‘Frontographer’ as the documentation put it) I was given when I bought a Mac clone a few years ago. Before then, I'd regarded the whole business of type drawing as something I would never fathom, let alone something that I would have the time or resources to pursue. Perhaps to remain ignorant would have been a happier turn of events; I don't know. But I have gained enormous enjoyment from drawing type, and Fontographer comfortably outlived the computer it was intended to help persuade me to buy.
As a ‘Classic’ Mac OS program Fontographer eventually became impossible for me to run. So when I did return to the fonts to give them a wash and brush-up I was very pleased to discover FontForge, which is a very accomplished non-proprietary font editor. It saves the outline data for each font in a text file so that it is both easy to read (well, easier than encoded binary) and easy to version-control. Highly recommended; but see the typophile forums for a discussion about font editors.
Some of these typefaces are now available to download from my page on the Open Font Library. SFD files are available on request – they will be available for download in the future.
The background image is a screenshot of e in Puritan taken in the glyph editing window of FontForge.
