Ibarra Real. A Spanish font revival

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jose maria ribagorda

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Nov 15, 2016, 12:13:53 PM11/15/16
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Hello. I send this font for your revision


Spain treasures a wide typographic and calligraphic heritage. Possibly the most important letterpress types are those cast in 1780 for the printed edition of Don Quixote for the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language by the most prestigious Spanish printer of all time, Joaquín Ibarra. His name is used for this important digital type revival.


The design was made for the Printing of the Royal Library by Geronimo Gil, who was advised by Francisco Javier de Santiago Palomares. The design was presented to the Academy in 1776. It demonstrates an interesting symbiosis between calligraphic and engraved genres of typeface design.


The "Ibarra Real", project began with research conducted by Jose Maria Ribagorda at the National Chalcography of Spain, heiress of Royal Printing,  between 2007 and 2009. This project consisted of the design and reconstruction of the types of Geronimo Gil for transfer to digital media. The project ended with the exhibition, "Imprenta Real. Fonts of Spanish Typography."

In 2015, the digital fonts were revised and improved in collaboration with the Spanish typographer Octavio Pardo for distribution as libre fonts.

IbarraReal.zip

Dave Crossland

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Nov 15, 2016, 12:19:24 PM11/15/16
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Hi

Thanks for this! 

Please do add the fonts 

I checked inside the font files and the copyright says,

      Copyright (c) 2007 by jose maria ribagorda. All rights reserved. Ornaments by:Manuel Alvarez Junco,Andreu Balius Planelles, Didac Ballester, Paco Bascunan, Jose Maria Cerezo, Alberto Corazon, Oyer Corazon, Pablo Cosgaya, Ruben Fontana, Javier Garcia del Olmo Jose Gil Nogues, Pepe Gimeno, Fernando Gutierrez, Juan Martinez, Laura Meseguer, Juan Antonio Moreno, Juan Nava, Miguel Ochando,  Joseph Patau Bellart, Alejandro Paul. Marc Salinas, Emilio Torne, Alex Trochut, Roberto Turegano Moratalla. 

I suggest

      Copyright (c) 2007 The Ibarra Real Authors.

Then maintain a list of the authors in an AUTHORS.txt file.

Also, the fonts lack a license; the NAME table should have a license and a license URL. 

There are more details on this here: 




However, if you can start a github repo and check in the Glyphs source file, we can review and provide updates to the file directly :) 

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Nov 23, 2016, 3:01:48 PM11/23/16
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Dave Crossland

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Jun 29, 2018, 10:17:00 AM6/29/18
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Hi

The fonts are now properly set up on Github :) 


I estimate they may arrive in Google Fonts in early August :) 

Cheers
Dave


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