Hawkes Sans:
The primary subfamily is a sans-serif typeface that includes nine fonts: three weights (light, medium and bold) and three widths (narrow, regular and broad). Within this set are a variety of stylistic functions; including little capitals, character design alternatives, discretionary ligatures and contextual alternatives. See information below to learn more on OpenType Features.
Hawkes Variable Width Sans:
The secondary subfamily is the very same base sans-serif font styles however integrated in variating widths. Basically, it takes all 3 widths of each weight and arbitrarily blends them together. This creates a funky and innovative option to the more conventional sans-serif set. The variations are for the uppercase, lowercase, little capitals, ligatures and numbers.
Hawkes Script:
The last subfamily is the script typeface. It's a wacky script with variations of its own, including ligatures, swashes and contextual options (again, see below for more details.) The script font style works terrific as a complimentary style to the sans-serif, or on it's own.
FEATURES
Alright, let's enter all the additional goodies this typeface needs to offer.
Small Capitals:
Small caps are brief capital letters developed to blend with lowercase text. These aren't simply capital letters just scaled down however developed to fit with the weight of both the lowercase and capitals. With Hawkes, small caps can either rest on the baseline (in line with the base of the capital and lowercase) or to be lifted to match the height of the capital letters by applying the discretionary ligature setting in the OpenType panel. These little capitals have a dot underlining them that sit along the standard. The feature offers a special screen affect that is great for logo designs, titles and other headline needs.
Discretionary Ligatures:
A discretionary ligature is more ornamental and distinct mix than a standard ligature and can be used at the users discretion (as the name indicates.) The particular styling for these ligatures varies for various typefaces. With Hawkes, they are utilized as an all capital styling function, or to raise the little capitals to align with the height of the capitals. In the previous setting, both lowercase and uppercase letters are first changed to all capitals, then a specialized set of letter combinations are transitioned so small characters are positioned within a main uppercase. These combinations just occur with primary characters that include a suitable stem, such as C F K L R T Y. A few of these mixes consist of two or three characters. When Small Caps is turned 'on', this feature will raise the little caps to the height of the capital letter. For additional information, please inspect out the user guide!
Stylistic Alternatives:
Stylistic alternates are a secondary kind of a character, typically utilized to enhance the appearance or style of a typeface. For Hawkes, these alternatives provide a somewhat more handcrafted feel.
A - the capital and small capital A will lose its pointed apex and become rounded. Think of it more as an upside-down U than an up-side-down V;-)
Oo, G, Ss, Cc- these characters' upper terminal becomes a loop. The O is used automatically, the G S and C require to be turn on individually.
Titling Alternatives:
This function does sort of the reverse of what it means. Rather of being utilized for entitling purposes, this function makes the text look better in paragraph text settings.
Kk Rr h n m - curved terminals on the are straightened
e - the counter stroke likewise gets straightened from a more looping motion
y - the shape of y is changed from a rounded character to a sharper apex (think more like a 'v' than 'u')
Contextual Alternatives:
Contextual alternates are glyphs developed to work within context of other adjacent glyphs. With Hawkes Sans, there are three a little various variations per character. The function rotates the application of each variation. This assists with organic credibility, so if you have 2 e's beside each other, they will not look similar (reflecting the natural variations in handwriting and lettering.)
With Hawkes Variable width fonts, I have actually developed a contextual pattern that randomizes the widths of each character. So, when the feature is turned 'on' in the OpenType panel, the widths would alternate in a pattern such as: Narrow, Wide, Routine, Narrow, Routine Wide, Narrow, etc. It happens instantly so the user doesn't have to think or fret about getting a random seed.
With Hawkes Script, contextual alternates enable strokes to link properly from one character to the next while preserving a credible, natural flow. Connecting strokes exist for 2 letters beside each other but are changed by a shorter stroke when found at the end of a word or sentence. Some characters have in-strokes when situated at the start of a word. When a character is preceded by a capital letter that doesn't connect, it too needs an in-stroke or altered spacing.
This function is complicated and messy, but thankfully you do not really have to believe about it! I've done all the coding so all you need to do is turn 'on' the function in the OpenType panel and you are off to the races! I'm simply letting you know what's happening behind the scenes.
Swashes:
These are just for Hawkes Script and offer tail swashes to the start and ends of letters. There are three various choices. You can select the fundamental option by turning 'on' the swash feature in the OpenType panel, or you can pick utilizing the Glyph panel.
Stylistic Sets:
This function work in brand-new versions of Illustrator CC and InDesign CC. You can select specific styling sets instead of turning on a whole feature. For instance, let's state you desire to have a loopy S, however not a loopy C or O, you can just switch on the S in the Style Set.
It also helps produce the little drop box that appears when you hover over a character, showing you the alternates associated with that character. This makes it simple to select and select particular styles you want in a word or headline.
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And there it is folks! That's all the basic info on Hawkes, I know it's been a lot and I appreciate you hanging on. If you resemble me and need more of a visual recommendation to accessing all these goodies, I have actually made a user guide to assist browse Hawkes and everything it has to offer.
Altogether this substantial household boasts 14 total font styles in a large variety of styles, weights and widths, making it an excellent addition to any handmade type collection. Delight in!
Font Family:
· Hawkes Light Narrow
· Hawkes Light Regular
· Hawkes Light Wide
· Hawkes Medium Narrow
· Hawkes Medium Regular
· Hawkes Medium Wide
· Hawkes Bold Narrow
· Hawkes Bold Regular
· Hawkes Bold Wide
· Hawkes Script Regular
· Hawkes Script Wide
· Hawkes Light Variable Width
· Hawkes Medium Variable Width
· Hawkes Bold Variable Width
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