Crazy Diamond Design Fonts
Definitions
Typeface: A collection of characters (or more correctly ‘glyphs’) based on a common theme or style, in our case such themes are different styles of historical handwriting.
Font: A particular version of a typeface, which, for example, may contain italic forms of characters or even alternative letterforms
Formats
Our fonts are provided in one of three formats:
- TrueType: a standard font format for general use.
- OpenType: based on TrueType information, and containing the potential for advanced typographical features. Our latest and all future fonts will be in this format.
- AAT: special extended format for Macintosh computers, which mirrors and extends the functionality of OpenType. See advanced type. Our latest and all future fonts will be in this format.
- iOS Fonts: for use on iOS-based devices (iPhones, iPads). See iOS fonts collection.
MUFI Conformity
The Medieval Unicode Font Initiative is a workgroup of medieval scholars aiming to establish a common consensus on the use of Unicode to formalise the availability of historical glyphs within typography.
All Crazy Diamond Design OpenType fonts conform to the latest MUFI specifications, and we are fully supportive of MUFI’s aims and objectives. For full details on MUFI, see:
Special Cases
- Capital Sets (eg. Rustic Capitals, Written Square Capitals)
These deviate from our standard typefaces in that only a single modern font is provided – no ancient font or lower-case characters exist as these were not in use at the time of the original scripts. However, with these exceptions a complete modern character set is provided, including all punctuation, foreign and accented characters. - Wizardings
The typefaces provided in this pack contain standard character sets only (there are no ancient versions) except the ‘Wizardings’ typeface which is a dingbat (pictorial) font.