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Prometheus Light (Basic Set)

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see also Prometheus (Basic Set) by SquarePeg, and Prometheus Light (Extended Set) by SquarePeg


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Based on condensed Grecian typefaces by Darius Wells and William Hamilton Page. Many Grecian wood type samples lack lower case characters or numerals (or both!)... hence my sampling of different sources.

After several modifications, this FontStruction has become so big that I had to split it in two to make downloading possible! The Basic Set (this half) features all of the Basic Latin and More Latin (a.k.a. Latin-1) characters, while the Extended Set has all of the Extended Latin A and several Extended Latin B characters (Latin-based diacritics for the Central European, West European, Baltic, and Romanian languages, plus special characters for Croatian, Slovenian, and Livonian, among others).
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208 characters, 83 downloads
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Fri, 4th July, 9:16 AM 2008
Last Edit:
Tue, 20th April, 10:03 PM 2010
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SquarePeg
SquarePeg Thu, 10th July, 2008

Here's a sample.

Here's a sample.

kix
kix Fri, 11th July, 2008

brilliant!
very very useful.


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Fri, 11th July, 2008

Thanks, kix! :-)


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Sat, 12th July, 2008

UPDATE: I've changed the name of the font from Grecian Condensed, which sounded a little too generic, to Prometheus Condensed -- which may sound a bit grandiose, but I have some bolder weights in the works!

UPDATE: I've changed the name of the font from Grecian Condensed, which sounded a little too generic, to Prometheus Condensed -- which may sound a bit grandiose, but I have some bolder weights in the works!

kix
kix Tue, 15th July, 2008

MAN!
this is too good to be true!
omg...

yeah!


kix
kix Tue, 15th July, 2008

hey!
btw...
you got any suggestions about my "blackbetter" font?
any feedback would be great


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Tue, 15th July, 2008

Thanks again, kix... Now that I finished this one, I am going to start working on the regular weight. By the way, I just replied to your blackbetter query... Maybe I can post some images later.


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Mon, 21st July, 2008

UPDATE: I've replaced my rather weak cedillas and ogoneks with more robust versions that match the heft of the other diacritics.


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Wed, 30th July, 2008

UPDATE: Yet another name change, from Prometheus Condensed to Prometheus Light. All of the existing and planned weights in this series are condensed -- it seems inconsistent to name just one of them "Condensed", and adding "Condensed" to all of the weights would make the names too long...


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Thu, 14th August, 2008

I've made extensive changes to Prometheus Light... Stewf gave me the idea of increasing the grid resolution to get around some problems I was running into with the bolder weights. So the first change was doubling the size of the grid -- thanks for the idea, Stephen! It allowed me to make subtle improvements to many characters.

I also completed the Extended Latin A character set, and added many Extended Latin B characters: Croatian digraphs matching Serbian Cyrillic letters, additions for Slovenian and Croatian, additions for Romanian, additions for Livonian, and a few miscellaneous additions for other European languages.

Last but not least, I eliminated the slightly narrower spurs that I had been experimenting with.

My next task is to do all of the above for Prometheus. Once that's done... I can go back to making the bolder weights of the series!

EDIT: Rob Meek tells me that this FontStruction is now too big to download! It will be a few more days before I decide how to resolve this issue.


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Fri, 15th August, 2008

ONE MORE UPDATE: I decided to split this FontStruction in two... That way I can continue to make changes to it, if needed. (The other option was for Rob to create a manual download.) I suppose that all other Prometheus weights will also have to be split in two.

Thanks again to Stephen Coles and Rob Meek, and to everyone who's said good things about the Prometheus series!


Axel Leyer
Axel Leyer Mon, 15th September, 2008

Amazing work!! very profesional...



SquarePeg
SquarePeg Mon, 15th September, 2008

Thanks, Axel. I am in the middle of updating the Regular weight of Prometheus, which is why I've taken it offline. I'm a big fan of your FABRICA series, WEIMAR, and BLOCK BLACK, by the way!


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Mon, 23rd March, 2009

Update: I've set the space character on both halves of Prometheus Light.


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Sun, 10th May, 2009

I've made adjustments to some of the lowercase elements. I lowered the crossbars and gave the upper and lower terminals equal length, due to problems I was having with the new bold weight.

Here is a before-and-after screenshot:

I've made adjustments to some of the lowercase elements. I lowered the crossbars and gave the upper and lower terminals equal length, due to problems I was having with the new bold weight.
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