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Hello, I like your typography but how did you achieve small caps in Source Serif Pro? I use Adobe Fonts to deliver the same font to my blog, but it said ‘smcp’
by jhvkjhk 7y ago
Hello, I like your typography but how did you achieve small caps in Source Serif Pro? I use Adobe Fonts to deliver the same font to my blog, but it said ‘smcp’ is not included in the OpenType feature of this font.
What's more, how did you make the fantastic Gothic style drop caps? ‘WhatFont’ said it's Source Serif Pro but it looks far more different!
- hobofan 7y agoI think eru meant "inspired [to post this link here]". I'm pretty sure that eru is not gwern.
- eru 7y agoYes, that's what I meant. I am not Gwern's alter ego.
- gwern 7y agoI believe the Source family only recently got smallcaps, in 2017: https://blog.typekit.com/2017/01/10/introducing-source-serif-2-0/ https://blog.typekit.com/2017/01/10/introducing-source-serif... So you need to upgrade. The Gothic drop cap is nothing to do with Source, but it is from Deutsche Zierschrift, one of 5 drop cap fonts (Cheshire Initials, Deutsche Zierschrift, Goudy Initialen, Kanzlei Initialen, & Yinit). In one of the clever performance tricks we use (https://www.gwern.net/About#design https://www.gwern.net/About#design), we subset them all into multiple font files, one initial per file, which makes them almost free in terms of bandwidth. The CSS for positioning them is quite tricky, however, due to subtle brokenness in browsers (particularly Firefox), so you'll have to inspect the 'DROP CAPS' section of https://www.gwern.net/static/css/default.css https://www.gwern.net/static/css/default.css carefully if you want to imitate it.
- jhvkjhk 7y agoThank you, I will try to adjust my the typography of my blog based on your helpful explanation!