instant-messaging font

inferno24 Jan 2008

A year ago I read about a font that truncated the spelling of words to mimic the abbreviated spelling that you often find in text messages and instant messaging. For example, this font would truncate "Vancouver" to "Vncvr".

What was this font?

Was it a Spiekermann design?

Florian Hardwig24 Jan 2008#

Hi Paul,

yes, that was FF Mt™.
Check the release date.
F

Jan24 Jan 2008#

Yes (it was by Spiekermann). The font’s name was FF Mt. Was/is a free download from Fontshop. The font is actually FF Meta without some vowels.

marcox24 Jan 2008#

Wasn't this a free FontShop download? It's not currently available, as near as I can tell.

Jan24 Jan 2008#

Florian.

Kaum zurück, schon schneller als ich.

Florian Hardwig24 Jan 2008#

Marc: Still available.
Jan: Hehe!

Stephen Coles24 Jan 2008#

> The font is actually FF Meta without some vowels.

More precisely: there are vowels in FF Mt, but they are only as small caps at x-height.

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