Life Savers font

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Do you remember the "Life Savers" candies adds from the 50s? That was a time when Ad Agencies actually hired Lettering Artist for their advertising text. Before the advent of Photo Typesetting, all the text was beautifully drawn by hand. We are going to put some love to work and bring back the Life Savers hand-lettered Typewriter/Stymie mix. Probably drawn originally by Frazier Purdy for the Sam Marsh Studio.

Bold weight added in December 2012. Project Members: PabloImpallari, BrendaGallo, RodrigoFuenzalida

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Do you remember the "Life Savers" candies adds from the 50s?
That was a time when Ad Agencies actually hired Lettering Artist for they advertising text.
Before the advent of Photo Typesetting, all the text was beautifully drawn by hand.

We are going to put some love to work and bring back the Life Savers hand-lettered Typewritter/Stymie mix.
Probably drawn originally by Frazier Purdy for the Sam Marsh Studio.
Revival by Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Brenda Gallo, spaced and kerned by iKern.

Join the project at:
http://www.impallari.com/projects

Documentation can be found at www.impallari.com

To contribute to the project contact Pablo Impallari at [email protected]

Life Savers covers 96 Latin languages:

Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bislama,
Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Comorian, Czech,
Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese,
Fijian, Filipino/Tagalog, Finnish, Flemish, French,
Gaelic (Irish), Gaelic (Manx), Gaelic (Scottish), Gagauz,
German, Gikuyu, Gilbertese/Kiribati, Greenlandic, Guarani,
Haitian_Creole, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian,
Irish, Italian, Javanese, Kashubian, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi,
Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luba/Ciluba/Kasai, Luxembourgish,
Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Marquesan, Marshallese,
Moldovan/Moldovian/Romanian, Nauruan, Ndebele, Norwegian,
Oromo, Palauan/Belauan, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian,
Romansh, Sami, Samoan, Sango, Sesotho, Setswana/Sitswana/Tswana,
Seychellois_Creole, SiSwati/Swati/Swazi, Silesian, Slovak,
Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish,
Tahitian, Tetum, Tok_Pisin, Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish,
Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Uzbek/Usbek, Wallisian, Walloon, Welsh,
Xhosa and Zulu.

ChangeLog

22 Ago 2013 (Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Igino Marini, Brenda Gallo) Life Savers v3.00
- New Extrabold weight added to the Family

28 Nov 2012 (Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Igino Marini) Life Savers v2.01
- Bold weight added
- Some minors bugs fixed

06 March 2012 (Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Igino Marini) Life Savers v1.00
- Tweaked 'Hbar', 'imacron'
- Fixed: 'Lcaron', 'ccaron', 'ecaron'
- Spaced and Kerned by iKern

29 Feb 2012 (Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida) Life Savers v0.011
- Removed the '.calt' OT feature.
- Rearranged and removed some of the alternates
- Moved the 'at' sign down just a bit.
- Removed the 'e_t' ligature.
- Softened the 's', 'k' and 'Q' tail.
- Small tweaks to '5', '6' and '9'.
- Added uni00A0(non breaking space) and .notdef glyphs.
- Shortened the 'L' and the 'T'.
- Tweaked the 'tilde' and related diacritics.
- Fixed 'ccaron', 'ecaron', 'Lcaron', 'Ncaron', 'gcommaaccent', 'Cdotaccent', 'Edotaccent', 'Gdotaccent', 'Idotaccent', 'Ndotaccent', 'Ugrave', 'Zdotaccent'.
- Fixed contour problems on 'd', '1', '2', '4', '$', 'ampersand', 'Enj', 'f_l', 'f_f_b', etc...
- Added Panose Font Info

27 Feb 2012 (Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida) Life Savers v0.010
- Fixed '3' and '5'.
- Enlarged 'acute', 'grave','hungarumlaut', 'quotedbl', 'quotesingle', 'quoteleft', 'quoteright', 'quotesingle', 'quotedblright' and 'quotedbleleft' so that in small sizes they don't look like dots.
- Fixed the descender curve on 'f_j' and 'f_f_j'
- Chaned 'e_t' ligature
- Added new tail for the 'Q'
- Added new alternates for 'K' and 'R'

26 Feb 2012 (Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida) Life Savers v0.009
- Added OT programming for the liga, dlig, salt and calt
- Enlarged the 'c' top serif
- Added new less prominent 'g', leaving the old one as 'g.salt' (Replaced also in 'circumflex', 'gbreve', 'gdotaccent' and 'gcommaaccent')
- Softened the 'j' and 'eng' descender curve
- Enlarged the 'F' bottom right serif
- Fixed the 'yen'
- Fixed 'lslash'
- Tweaked 'tbar', 'ccedilla', 'Ccedilla', 'hcircumflex'

24 Feb 2012 (Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida) Life Savers v0.008
- Most of the basic form of the characters completed, still "@" and
trademarks glyphs to be made.

22 Feb 2012 (Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida) Life Savers v0.007
- Update on caps, added numbers, revised lowercase letters, some signs
and diacritics.

20 Feb 2012 (Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida) Life Savers v0.006
- First draft of caps added

29 Jan 2012 (Pablo Impallari) Life Savers v0.005
- Initial Beta release

Acknowledgements

If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N),
email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and
description (D). This list is in alphabetical order.

N: Pablo Impallari
E: [email protected]
W: http://www.impallari.com
D: Designer

N: Rodrigo Fuenzalida
E: [email protected]
W: http://www.rfuenzalida.com
D: Designer

N: Brenda Gallo
E: [email protected]
W: http://www.impallari.com
D: Designer

N: Igino Marini
E: [email protected]
W: http://www.ikern.com
D: Spacing and Kerning

Copyright (c) 2012, Pablo Impallari (www.impallari.com|[email protected]),
Copyright (c) 2012, Rodrigo Fuenzalida (www.rfuenzalida.com|[email protected]),
Copyright (c) 2012, Brenda Gallo ([email protected]),
Copyright (c) 2012, Igino Marini. (www.ikern.com|[email protected]), with Reserved Font Name Life Savers.

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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