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:
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>.
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.
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.
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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Which always reminds me of the famous Plessey Company logo:
Or at least, mess with the text like Amy Papaelias: http://typographica.org/on-typography/handwriting-fonts-with-something-to-say/
I would recommend putting that in the <rlig> feature, so that it can’t be turned off, rather than <calt> or <liga>.
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.
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.
The Я character was introduced by Peter the Great and the Д character was triangular similar to an A character in the 14th Century.
Ўай нот сўич то ҙе беттер элфебет проперли наў ҙет ўи ар эт ит?
[eːj meər] [kɑʃˈkɑ nɑm bɛrdiːm a dzyˈbroːr əm bliŋ]
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.