license: OFL
category: handwriting
subsets: menu,latin,latin-ext

family: Monsieur La Doulaise

designer: Sudtipos

approved: true
description: <p>The Charles Bluemlein Script Collection \
  is an intriguing reminder of the heady days of hand \
  lettering and calligraphy in the United States. \
  From the early 1930s through World War II, there \
  were about 200 professional hand letterers working \
  in New York City alone. This occupation saw its \
  demise with the advent of photo lettering, and \
  after digital typography it became virtually extinct. \
  The odd way in which the Bluemlein scripts were \
  assembled and created - by collecting different \
  signatures and then building complete alphabets \
  from them - is a fascinating calligraphic adventure. \
  Because the set of constructed designs looked \
  nothing like the original signatures, fictitious \
  names were assigned to the new script typefaces. \
  The typeface styles were then showcased in \
  Higgins Ink catalogs.</p> \
  <p>Alejandro Paul and Sudtipos bring the Bluemlein \
  scripts back to life in a set of expanded digital \
  versions, reflecting the demands of today’s \
  designer. Extreme care has been taken to render \
  the original scripts authentically, keeping the \
  fictitious names originally assigned to them by \
  Bluemlein.</p>

font.MonsieurLaDoulaise-Regular.ttf.style: normal
font.MonsieurLaDoulaise-Regular.ttf.weight: 400

# cd ~/src/font-optimizer; \
# ./subset.pl -v --licensesubst="SIL OFL 1.1" \
#  --exclude="c2sc,smcp,ordn,sups,sinf,subs,dlig,frac" \
#  --chars="Monsieur La Doulaise" \
# ~/googlefontdirectory/monsieurladoulaise/MonsieurLaDoulaise-Regular.{ttf,menu}; \
# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/monsieurladoulaise/; \
# ~/googlefontdirectory/tools/chars/showchars.py \
#  MonsieurLaDoulaise-Regular.menu; \

# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/monsieurladoulaise/; \
# rm *.nam *.log *.latin *.latin-ext *.cyrillic+latin *.cyrillic-ext+latin *.greek+latin *.greek-ext+latin; \
# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/; \
# for family in monsieurladoulaise; do \
#    for font in `ls -1 $family/*ttf | cut -d. -f1`; do \
#        for subset in \
#            latin latin-ext; do \
#            echo subset.py --null --nmr --roundtrip --namelist --script \
#                --subset=$subset $font.ttf $font.$subset; \
#            python tools/subset/subset.py --null --nmr --roundtrip \
#                --namelist --script --subset=$subset \
#                $font.ttf $font.$subset > $font.$subset.log; \
#        done; \
#    done; \
# done; \
# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/monsieurladoulaise/; \

