Meridian showcase 05 / 09
Demonstration page. The business is invented, the words are sample copy, and this is not work done for a client.
All nineFeldspar Type Foundry - Type foundry
A working face for things that have to be read.
Feldspar is a seven-weight text family with a matched mono, drawn for interfaces, annual reports and anything else that has small sizes in it.
7 weights
Plus a matched mono, in one licence
One licence covers desktop, web and application use. There is no per-view web tier and no annual renewal.
The specimen
Set in the system stack, because a specimen page that ships a display face nobody has paid for is a specimen of a drawing somebody else did.
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Weights
Handset
Thin
Handset
Book
Handset
Regular
Handset
Medium
Handset
Semibold
Handset
Strong
Handset
Mono
Nothing above thirty-two pixels is set heavier than 560 anywhere on this page. A heavy display line is the loudest thing a template does.
Drawing
Fitted at fourteen pixels
Spacing and kerning were set at text size and checked at display size afterwards, which is the opposite of how most families are made.
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Coverage
Latin Extended, properly
Accents are drawn, not composed from spare parts, across all seven weights. Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese are covered.
02
Licence
Bought once
Perpetual, transferable within your company, and no traffic ceiling. The trial is the retail file with a restricted character set.
03
Try it in the thing you are actually building.
Download the trialFeldspar Type Foundry
Try it in the thing you are actually building.
The trial file is the full drawing at a restricted character set, so what you test is what you would buy.
That is where the demonstration ends. Feldspar Type Foundry is invented, so the buttons above lead here rather than anywhere. These two do work.
What you are looking at
- Technique
- Staggered grid arrival
- Why here
- A specimen is a grid, and a grid that arrives all at once reads as a page load rather than as a composition. The stagger index is the sum of the row and the column, so the reveal crosses the grid as a diagonal wave and the eye is given an order to read it in.
- With animation off
- Every cell of the specimen is present, in position and legible on first paint. The wave is the only thing that is missing.
- --i emitted per cell
- diagonal stagger via row + column
- offset animation-range
- word-level cascade
Feldspar Type Foundry - Plus a matched mono, in one licence
Download the trial