Gießen, August 2014
Dear visitors,
A little update of this site brings some minor corrections; e. g. I’ve had to rework that Midjungards ring after I realised that “huzd” in contrary to its German cognate “Hort” isn’t masculine but neuter.
Gießen, January 2014
Dear friends and users,
The revised version of my font Midjungards is now finished and available! Typeface is much more even than before, compatibility with the other Gothic fonts has been improved, and Midjungards is now equipped with a few OpenType features.
Robert Pfeffer
Gießen, first Sunday of Advent 2012
Dear friends and users of my fonts,
Finally — after four years of repeatedly interrupted development! — my font Pfeffer Simpelgotisch is finished and ready to be released here. For the time being I offer three typefaces. Spaced out variants to each of them will probably follow in order to substitute the italic typeface (which is very unusual in blackletter scripture).
Note that the body of OpenType rules is still far from being perfect, and any notification of wrong setting of ſ and s — via email or in the guestbook — is very welcome!
By the way, I’m currently also reworking my font Midjungards.
Robert Pfeffer
Gießen, October 2010
Dear friends and users,
Fortunately, Microsoft’s new Word 2010 supports OpenType features now — apparently being the first software for average consumers doing so! Sadly, the “hist” feature isn’t supported. However, the stylistic sets are, and thus I’ve added each a copy of Silubr’s and Pfeffer Mediæval’s “hist” feature as stylistic set “ss05”. Hence, instead of “hist”, stylistic set 5 can now be applied with the same effect. Similarly, I’ve made Pfeffer Mediæval’s small caps feature “smcp” additionally available as stylistic set “ss06”.
Further, I’ve extended Pfeffer Mediæval — as recently supposed in the guestbook — by two new letters, i. e. upper- and lowercase “yogh” (Ȝ and ȝ).
Robert Pfeffer
Ober-Mörlen, June 2010
Dear friends and users,
Finally I’ve finished my font Pfeffer Mediæval! As you could already have concluded from the menu so far, it covers the Latin, the Gothic and the Runic range. Being my most extensive font as yet, it complies with the MUFI recommendations as far as its range reaches. To make typing of such characters easier that can’t easily be accessed by using the keyboard, I’ve added a few OpenType features substituting certain glyphs by certain different ones (e. g. standard Latin letters by their insular counterparts or Latin letters by Gothic ones). Look at the respective pages for more information, and enjoy free and non-commercial use of this font!
Yours,
Robert Pfeffer
Ober-Mörlen, at New Year’s Eve 2009
Dear users,
Beside a minor rearrangement of this site there have also been a few improvements to my fonts. I have changed the vertical metrics of Ulfilas somewhat so as to adapt them to those of Bembo (the dimensions of which had served me as a rule). The dichotomy of Skeirs Minuskel and Skeirs Majuskel has been abandoned, and the further development of the latter has been stopped in order to make the font’s maintenance easier. In return, Skeirs now contains the same accented glyphs and combining diacritica as Ulfilas. Those are still missing in Silubr and in Midjungards, but I’ve meliorated both fonts’ compatibility with Ulfilas and Skeirs: When a text is changed from Ulfilas or Skeirs to Silubr or Midjungards, accented glyphs aren’t omitted or replaced by boxes, but simply rendered without accents (see here). Silubr has been extended by the OpenType feature “hist” for historical text layout. If activated, spaces are omitted and punctuation is reduced to mid-dot and colon (see here as well). Finally, I’ve also improved the keyboard layouts. Hitherto, certain key combinations (such as Ctrl+T for “Þiuþ”) wouldn’t work or would serve a different purpose in certain applications.
Robert Pfeffer
Gießen, May 2009
Dear users,
The newly designed Ulfilas font is now finished and available for download. Silubr and Skeirs have been reworked, too. Above all, the angular parts have been harmonized and the othal has been shortened a bit.
Robert Pfeffer
Ober-Mörlen, at Christmas 2008
Dear friends and users of old German and Germanic philology fonts!
One and a half years have passed since I launched the prequel of this site. More than five thousand visits have been registered by the counter during this time! Meanwhile, I’ve improved some of the fonts, accomplished some additional ones, and begun even more. The enjoyably brisk interest of the users hasn’t been the least reason why I chose to present the new developments at a completely redesigned website as well.
The most significant innovation is Skeirs’ being a minuscule font now, which should improve screen display of Gothic texts considerably. I haven’t deleted the hitherto existing majuscules, but moved them to the private use area of Unicode. This, and my intention of doing it likewise with future fonts, have rendered it necessary to create a Gothic keyboard layout of my own. When using it, the majuscules can be reached by holding shift.
My very first font, Ulfilas, will soon be replaced by a completely newly designed one, “Ulfilas II”. Other projects are “Pfeffer Simpelgotisch” and “Pfeffer Mediæval”. Pfeffer Simpelgotisch will be a blackletter designed very simple and making intensive use of the so-called OpenType Features, above all of the automatic glyph substitution. Pfeffer Mediæval on the contrary shall become a Carolingian minuscule, standing out rather due to its vast range of glyphs than due to sophisticated OpenType usage. A Gothic and a Runic set will be included again.
All of the fonts offered at this site can, as hitherto, be downloaded and used freely for non-commercial use. If you like the fonts or if you like to comment on them or to make a proposal, feel free to write into my guestbook! Hoping to have provided a humble benefit to the world (or at least to the appropriately interested part of it), I remain
Yours,
Robert Pfeffer