What, no Covfefe font yet?

Nick Shinn
Nick Shinn Posts: 2,216
in Type Business
I’m surprised. Google has nothing, not even a freebie.

But if you’re wracking your brains for new typeface names and draw the line at trumpery, here are some ideas from a June 1968 ad in Art Direction magazine:


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  • Chris D
    Chris D Posts: 76
    edited June 2017
    Say what you want about the man but that signature is dynamite... This guy is a high energy covfefe drinker.



    Which always reminds me of the famous Plessey Company logo:




  • Chris D
    Chris D Posts: 76
    edited June 2017
    I also think we need Drumpf Gothic in blackletter!
  • SiDaniels
    SiDaniels Posts: 277
    https://hyperallergic.com/354588/trumps-signature-is-the-sound-wave-of-demons-screaming/
  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,458
    If you are looking for the 1906 Earthquake in San Francisco, you are slipping in the right direction ;-)

  • SiDaniels
    SiDaniels Posts: 277
    It's what plants crave. 
  • Paul Miller
    Paul Miller Posts: 273
    Chris Drabsch said:
    I also think we need Drumpf Gothic in blackletter!
    I will start work on it right away, and yes it will support cyrilic (just the ones in WGL4).

  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,216
    Now, if you could weaponize it with some code that would blow up the computer of any neo-nazi who attempts to use it.

    Or at least, mess with the text like Amy Papaelias: http://typographica.org/on-typography/handwriting-fonts-with-something-to-say/
  • Paul Miller
    Paul Miller Posts: 273
    edited June 2017
    Nick Shinn said:
    Now, if you could weaponize it with some code that would blow up the computer of any neo-nazi who attempts to use it.

    Or at least, mess with the text like Amy Papaelias: http://typographica.org/on-typography/handwriting-fonts-with-something-to-say/
    Like replacing the string 'Holy Quran' with 'Ancient Book of Fairy Tales'.  :)

  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,216
    At the very least, “Trump” would always be rendered as “Drumpf”, on brand.
    I would recommend putting that in the <rlig> feature, so that it can’t be turned off, rather than <calt> or <liga>.
  • Paul Miller
    Paul Miller Posts: 273
    I'm OK with the Latin characters for a gothic font, I have already traced the outlines of a suitable set of letters from photographs of contemporaneous documents, they need a lot of tidying up but thats OK.

    What I have a problem with is the fact that Cyrillic has changed a lot since the 14th century.  I only have one example of the lettering and it is only a scrap with not many characters.  But the letters appear very different from what they should be according to the translation.

    I wonder if it would be better to butcher some modern Cyrillic characters to look Gothic or to go with the actual letterforms from that era which most Russians won't understand.

    If anyone has any links to photos of old Cyrillic documents I would be grateful.

  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 2,896
    @Paul Miller: The Cyrillic alphabet went through an alphabet reform under Peter the Great circa 1708. I think you are talking about the Old Church Slavonic style of Cyrillic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Russian_orthography
  • Paul Miller
    Paul Miller Posts: 273
    Yes I know about the reform, that is the problem, some old characters were removed from use and some new characters were introduced and some characters were changed.

    I think i will just butcher modern Cyrillic to make it look like a Gothic style and add a few of the ancient characters which were taken out by Peter the Great.

  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,458
    But why would a Putin era require Slavonic or anything prior to the 20th Century? The point of this topic is Trump and Putin, not Peter the Great.
  • Paul Miller
    Paul Miller Posts: 273
    Christian Thalmann said:
    МДКЭ ДМЭЯIСД GЯЭДТ ДGДIИ
    I heard that Trump has just signed an Executive Order banning all varieties of cheese except parmesan to make America grate again.

    The Я character was introduced by Peter the Great and the Д character was triangular similar to an A character in the 14th Century.   :D
  • Samuil Simonov
    Samuil Simonov Posts: 110
    @Christian Thalmann my eyes!

    Ўай нот сўич то ҙе беттер элфебет проперли наў ҙет ўи ар эт ит?








  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 1,988
    edited June 2017
    [aj əˈsɯwm jɻ̩ ɻiˈfɝːɻɪŋ tʰɯw ˌajpʰiːˈej]?
  • Paul Miller
    Paul Miller Posts: 273
    Samuil Simonov said:
    @Christian Thalmann my eyes!

    Ўай нот сўич то ҙе беттер элфебет проперли наў ҙет ўи ар эт ит?


    ¿ Qué ?


  • Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian
    Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian Posts: 2,044
    Ճասթ րիիտ իթ:
  • Chris D
    Chris D Posts: 76
  • Kent Lew
    Kent Lew Posts: 944
    Paul —
    Ўай нот сўич то ҙе беттер элфебет проперли наў ҙет ўи ар эт ит?
    “Why not switch to the better alphabet properly now that we are at it?”
  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 1,988
    edited June 2017
    Samuil Simonov said:
    @Christian Thalmann my eyes!

    Ўай нот сўич то ҙе беттер элфебет проперли наў ҙет ўи ар эт ит?
    Eja meore, ¿coſcod non berdime ad ſuebrore an lionga?
    [eːj meər] [kɑʃˈkɑ nɑm bɛrdiːm a dzyˈbroːr əm bliŋ]
  • Paul Miller
    Paul Miller Posts: 273
    Chris Lozos said:
    But why would a Putin era require Slavonic or anything prior to the 20th Century? The point of this topic is Trump and Putin, not Peter the Great.
    Well I wanted to do a Gothic or a Blackletter or a Fraktur for a while and the suggestion that it would be amusing to do a Drumph Gothic was just the nudge I needed.

    But having decided to do it I am going to do it properly and there will be no sabotage of the text using Open Type features to replace one set of words with another.

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