Trickster - A Free Font Presenting a Smooth Blend of Merovingian Writing, Blackletter Influences and Contemporary Shapes

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Designer : Jean-Baptiste Morizot
License: Free for commercial use OFL
Files: 9 Size: 193 KB
Views: 242 Downloads: 1
WebSite: http://velvetyne.fr/
Trickster a free font presenting a smooth blend of Merovingian writing, blackletter influences and contemporary shapes. In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphisation), which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour. The font comes with uppercase, lowercase letters, numerals, symbols, ligatures and alternates. Trickster suitable for posters, headlines and other creative arts.

 

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

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Web Fonts:
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Trickster_V2000.ufo
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source: /Users/JBMZ/Documents/VTF/Trickster/sources/Trickster_V2000.ufo

Build WOFF (TTF)
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path: /Users/JBMZ/Documents/VTF/Trickster/webfonts/Trickster-Regular.woff
Source is a UFO file. Generate TTF.
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makeotf Report

makeotf [Note] Converting source font 'dummyCompile.otf' to temporary Unix Type1 font file 'dummyCompile.otf.tmp'.
makeotf [Note] setting the USE_TYPO_METRICS OS/2 fsSelection bit 7 from fontinfo keyword.
makeotf [Note] setting the WEIGHT_WIDTH_SLOPE_ONLY OS/2 fsSelection bit 8 from fontinfo keyword.
makeotf [Note] setting the OBLIQUE OS/2 fsSelection bit 9 from fontinfo keyword.
makeotf [Note] Writing options file current.fpr
makeotf [Note] Running makeotfexe with commands:
cd ""
makeotfexe "-f" "dummyCompile.otf.tmp" "-o" "tmpAXLtvW.ttf" -ff "features" -gf "glyphOrder" -mf "menuname" -r
makeotfexe [NOTE] Wrote new font file 'tmpAXLtvW.ttf'.


Built release mode font 'tmpAXLtvW.ttf' Revision 2.000

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Build WOFF2 (TTF)
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path: /Users/JBMZ/Documents/VTF/Trickster/webfonts/Trickster-Regular.woff2

Build EOT
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path: /Users/JBMZ/Documents/VTF/Trickster/webfonts/Trickster-Regular.eot



TTFAutohint options:
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addTTFAutoHintInfo = False
dwClearType = False
fallbackScript = False
gdiClearType = True
grayScale = False
hintRangeMaximum = 50
hintRangeMinimum = 8
hintingLimit = 200
noHintingLimit = False
noXHeightIncreaseLimit = False
overRideFontLicense = False
preHinting = False
symbolFont = False
xHeightIncreaseLimit = 14

Reviews

Love this font. Little too bold, and I wish it was a tad more readable

The quest for a beautiful calligraphy front that is both medievalist and readable continues, and Trickster is a very welcome and unorthodox entry. Everything that is unique about is is things that I love. What do I not love? Two thing: First, my eyes strain ever so slightly to read it when it's smaller than a poster size; and its regular typeface is too bold for the boldface to be easily distinguished. In particular, the crossed T is a little too F-like.

Logan the Fanethegn (Posted on Jun 11, 2023)

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# File name Size Download
1 Trickster-Reg.otf 57 KB Download
2 Trickster-Reg.ttf 75 KB Download
3 LICENSE.txt 4 KB Download
4 font.css 339 bytes Download
5 preview.html 36 KB Download
6 Trickster-Regular.eot 78 KB Download
7 Trickster-Regular.woff 37 KB Download
8 Trickster-Regular.woff2 30 KB Download
9 WebFonts-Report.txt 1 KB Download