Ernesto MonasterioNov 1
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HEX launched 7 years ago tonight, on Halloween 2018.

To celebrate, I’m releasing a preliminary version of an experimental typeface I started even before that …

Shop Sans is a typeface for setting text on circles and curved baselines. Its ‘Curve’ variable font allows for bending type smoothly along arched paths, with adjustable curvature.

The initial version 0.1 is now available from @futurefonts, with more updates and improvements coming soon:
https://www.futurefonts.com/hex/shop-sans

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Show threadMorning TypeNov 1
@HEX @futurefonts This is next level!
Show threadCraig EliasonNov 1
@HEX @futurefonts Exciting! May I suggest the Toronto Blue Jays as a potential client? Their straight-letters-on-an-arc jerseys are driving me crazy.
Show threadDan Kletter 🥑Nov 1
@HEX @futurefonts @nicksherman 🤯
Show threadLuke Dorny Nov 1
@HEX @futurefonts this is most incredible. Congrats on releasing 0.1!!!!
Show threadTriple ⁂Nov 1
@HEX @futurefonts A very specific need. A very needed font(s).
Show threadThe SecretbatcaveNov 1
@HEX @futurefonts fuckyeah!
Show threadAnnaNov 1
@HEX @futurefonts wow! This is brilliant!
Show threadUnderwareNov 1
@HEX Nice! How many years was this already in the back of your mind?
Show threadHEX ProjectsNov 1

@underware Thanks! I was doing early tests for this idea with a slab-serif design at least as early as January 2015:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicksherman/16366442601/

The sans-serif design I just released now started some time between then and July 2016, when I made the first commits in the git repository for the project.

Interpolatable curve type

Flickr
Show threadTypeartureNov 1
@HEX @futurefonts Really cool! Nice surprise this morning, and with an upcoming project an insta-buy.
Show threadFrederikNov 1

@HEX @futurefonts had a script, back in TM, to draw anything on a morphed and curved coordinate system

Gongrats!!

Show threadFrederikNov 4
@HEX @futurefonts ah we already talked about it ;) https://vimeo.com/72958932 12 years ago
Text on Path

Vimeo
Show threadJason Santa MariaNov 1
@HEX This looks awesome, congrats on the launch and the anniversary! I still have the early beta version from a few years back you shared for a thing I was working on. I'm excited to give this new one a spin too, it actually fits with another project I have in front of me 😂
Show threadAnnieNov 1
@HEX @futurefonts Congrats! This is so cool!! 🌀