Read: LTR Federal Guide
Introduction to the different Federals
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Font releases, updates and articles from LettError
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Research: Optics
Explorations of optics in typography and some visualisation of snow.
LTR Federal Bureau 4.206 – Update
Minor repair to the shading in the J circumflex glyph.
LTR NCND® Classic HD Pro 7.505 – Update
Re-issue, slightly smaller filesize. Still significant, but every Mb counts I suppose. Some tweaks to the technical parts of the fonts, no changes to its appearance or characterset.
LTR Very Bauble 1.402 – Update
New variables and new singles. Much extended characterset with many diacritics, some currencies, more punctuation. It's still uppercase only, but it speaks more languages.
LTR Limited Grotesque™ 1.806 – Update
New variables and new singles. Improved ogoneks. Fixed issue with overlaps in OTF exports.
LTR Limited Grotesque™ 1.805 – Update
New variables and new singles. A handful of small fixes: an issue with the dot size in iogonek. Alignment issue in the lowercase h stem. Rightmargins of accented variants of Z.
Drawing: Animation
Sometimes images become animations
LTR Very Bauble 1.3 – Update
Some improvements to unruly pips and thorns. Added missing Pips weight to the OTFs. Added a new LTR logo, accessible under (LTR).
LTR Very Bauble 1.0 – New Release
A study in transfiguration, this Very Bauble. Slightly odd Sans caps get cut and form distinguished looking inlines. Then the stems split and our Bauble grows thorns and pips and becomes plump and foliate. A Tuscadermy Very Bauble Mondegreen. Caps only, and with a rather limited characterset. It is after all, just a Very Bauble.
LTR Limited Grotesque™ Singles 1.803 – Update
All weights and styles for LTR Limited Grotesque™ as non-variable OpenTypes. Regular, Book, Medium, Bold and Extra Bold, with eye catching italics. Same OpenType features, alternates, ligatures, etc. as the variables.
LTR Limited Grotesque 1.8001 – Update
This extends LTR Limited with Book, Medium, Bold and Extra Bold for Roman and Italic, released as 2 variable fonts. Updated kerning and metrics in roman and italic, both now at version 1.8. Considerable tweakery on shapes in all styles, reshuffled stylistic sets. Nice set of keyboard accessible arrows.
LTR Limited Grotesque 1.005 – Update
This introduces an exciting new upright style. Updated kerning in roman and italic, both now at version 1.005. Small tweakery on shapes and spacing in the italic as well. Yes, this design still a lot of care and attention.
LTR Limited Grotesque 1.004 – Update
This improves some automatic ligature combinations. Unneeded glyphs removed. Some kerning pairs adjusted.
LTR Limited Grotesque 1.003 – New Release
LTR Limited Grotesque is a low contrast sans serif design with a rather steep angle and a joyful mix of shapes.
Read: Ten Things about Contracts
Some observations about contracts between type designers and distributors.
Books for sale
Occasionally we have some books for sale.
Discover Fonts
Scroller: Serendipitous discovery of LettError fonts.
Discover Everything
Scroller: Serendipitous discovery of all fonts, articles, drawings & photos on LettError. A randomised gallery.
LTR NCND 5.3 – Update
This addresses an issue with font naming in InDesign 2024. This means you may need to find/replace the font in your document as the name has changed. And new CFF OpenType versions for the non-variable styles.
LTR Principia 1.407 – Update
This addresses an issue with font naming in InDesign 2024.
LTR Federal Reserve Note 4.105 – Update
Additional end pieces and simplified access through nicely named stylistic sets: Crown, Toffee, Scroll, Oval, Engraved, Lunate, Crescent, Candy, Fish and Hotdog.
LTR Federal Bureau 4.205 – New Release
A new vertical bevel enables a single-layer interpretation of the shaded LTR Federal design.
LTR Principia Variables 1.406 – Updates
Small updates to naming.
LTR Federal Collection 4.101 – Updates
Added notdef. Changed /currency. Renamed /apple to /fisheye 0x25C9 to make it accessible. Clearly this is not a fisheye, but there is no unicode for all-seeing-omni-thing. Improved glyph order. Increased the ascender values. Improved selected name table entries for the whole collection. Federal Regular and Federal Reserve Note can now be licensed separately.
LTR Principia Collection 1.402 – Updates
Default numerals are now proportional old style. Lining numerals (lnum) are also proportional. Tabular versions available at tnum. Small tweaks to /two, /yen, /Y, /thinspace. Improved acutes over ij and IJ. Access Alternates feature added.
Drawing: Gallery
The mindbending realities of LettError illustrations.
Drawing: Lettering
Refreshingly void of swashery
Drawing: Imaginary Covers
Lettering exercises within imagined and confined spaces. Some existing books redrawn, some made up.
Drawing: Zines
Irregular zines on letters and illustration
Work: Type Services
The LettError Type Studio can modify and extend existing designs from our collection, or draw something completely new.
Read: Dirty Typewriter Guide
Do you need the Variable, Classic, Rough or HD edition?
Research: Noordzij Cube
Practical research in theoretical models
Research: TypeCooker
Notes on a practical type and lettering exercise method.
Research: Digitisation
A practical and statistical analysis of digitised type. 2012
Archive: A Useful Guide to Bad Type
An essay exploring criteria for type.
Archive: Toolspace (Middendorp)
Essay by Jan Middendorp on early LettError for the Charles Nypels Award Book. 2000
Archive: Was Best Better? (Emigré)
The LettError Randomfont manifesto. Emigré #18, 1990.