Romanette, a typeface

17 March 2006

Romanette Romanette is a delicate capital typeface in the Roman/Palatino style. Not original but nicely executed and quite a nice diversion from some of the more well-worn book faces. It’s from 1996 and I’m truly sorry I don’t remember the original work I based it on because it was also an independent fontographer who was doing some nice work I’d like to credit.

Download Romanette TrueType™ font; file is a tar-zipped and should be expandable and useable on PC, *nix, and Macintosh. [update: here is an uncompressed version if the other causes trouble.]

Caveats: the kerning is not terrific right now and it is so light that it doesn’t do well at smaller point sizes. I plan to punch up the weight a bit and manually fix all the iffy kerning but it won’t be soon. There was no Euro in ’96 so there is no «€» in the face yet. It's a single face family. No bold or italic.

Here is a pangram with Romanette and some of its special characters, mostly abbreviation symbols for degrees and addresses.

On a related note—and not merely self-promotion—here is some JavaScript for doing pangrams.

Also, I’d just like to say that I showed great restraint not calling this the Free Font Friday or something.

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Re: Romanette, a typeface

I like the looks of this font, but when I expand the archive, I'm told it's not a valid font file (Windows or Mac), and Font Lab doesn't recognize it either. What format is it?

By fontologist on 19 June 2006, 18:33 PDT · [reply]

Re^2: Romanette, a typeface

Hmmm... it's a TrueType font that should work on either platforms. I'll maybe replace it with an uncompressed version and see if that helps.

By Ashley on 19 June 2006, 21:36 PDT · [reply]

Re: Romanette, a typeface

Love the looks of this, but previous poster is correct -- the decompressed font is not valid. Could you post an uncompressed version? Or use a different compression method? (or e-mail me a copy?) Thanks.

By Fleisch on 22 May 2007, 10:54 PDT · [reply]

Re^2: Romanette, a typeface

Hi. Thanks for commenting. Sorry for the trouble.

I tried to redo it but it was getting mangled somewhere between my old System 8 Mac and my OS X box. I know there is a new upgrade to Fontographer. If I end up getting it, I’ll send you a note and a copy of the font.

By Ashley on 22 May 2007, 12:37 PDT · [reply]

Ego driven