Custom fonts that blend two existing typefaces — any other examples?

Raven
Raven Posts: 1
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Recently saw the release of Nebula Sans, a custom font for Nebula TV that serves as a close alternative to Whitney ScreenSmart, but the drawing is based on Source Sans 3. It's also released as an open source family. 

This got me thinking — are there other examples of a custom typeface where the brief is essentially "take the drawing of Font A and adjust it to resemble Font B"?

I don't recall seeing this kind of dual-influence acknowledged so openly in type documentation before. Would love to hear if others have come across similar cases.

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  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,616
    Nebula Sans is described as ‘designed to be a drop-in alternative to Whitney SSm’. That doesn’t imply that the typfecae glyph shapes have been made to resemble that of Whitney, but typically means that the scaling and weight/width instance interpolation has been selected to be similar to the weight and proportions of Whitney, and the spacing has been adjusted to match the Whitney metrics. The idea is that one can drop Nebula Sans into designs and templates spec’d using Whitney SSm without needing to adjust anything. The look and feel of Nebula Sans is still very much Source Sans.

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