impallari / cabin

Cabin Fonts

Cabin Fonts

The Cabin font family is a humanist sans with 4 weights and true italics, inspired by Edward Johnston’s and Eric Gill’s typefaces, with a touch of modernism. Cabin incorporates modern proportions, optical adjustments, and some elements of the geometric sans. It remains true to its roots, but has its own personality.

The weight distribution is almost monotone, although top and bottom curves are slightly thin. Counters of the b, g, p and q are rounded and optically adjusted. The curved stem endings have a 10 degree angle. E and F have shorter center arms. M is splashed.

License

• Cabin is licensed under the SIL Open Font License v1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
• To view the copyright and specific terms and conditions please refer to OFL.txt

Authors

Pablo Impallari, iKerned by Igino Marini, improved and extended by Kalapi Gajjar-Bordawekar Also including contributions by Marc Foley and Lasse Fister.

cabin's Issues

Font information in the italic variable font is a verbatum copy of the regular variable font

This issue make applications treat the italic style as the regular.

Below are some screenshot taken in Fontforge of italic variable font info

weight axis uses a non-standard scale

The weight axis ranges from 95..128, with the Regular face being at the beginning of the range. This will not interoperate well with weights as defined in OpenType or CSS, where a Regular face is expected to have weight:400. I would suggest re-scaling the axis to a range of, for example, 400..700 for the weight variation that is actually available.

width axis is reversed

At least according to the example seen on https://v-fonts.com/, the width axis seems to work backwards: it has a range from 0..100, but as the value of the axis is increased, the font actually becomes narrower.

This will result in counter-intuitive behavior, for example, when CSS font properties like font-stretch:condensed vs font-stretch:normal are mapped to the variation axis in the font: a "condensed" face will appear wider than a "normal" one.

Some weird issues prevent it to export as VF

There are some really weird issues that prevent it to export as a VF
@kalapi What to have a look?

Exported fonts have both /NULL and /.null

Exported fonts have both /NULL and /.null (both without unicode).
It should have only one, and having unicode 0000
@kalapi

any plans to change the @ sign?

Looks like its part of a whole different font. Any plans on changing it?

color in v w x y z in Bold Condensed

In bold condensed: v w y are lighter, x is bolder @kalapi

Any plans to expand the language support?

I'd be neat to expand the support to meet Unicode standards.

Move current @ to a stylistic set and introduce a new 'normal' one

A user wrote to Google Fonts this week,

First of all kudis to the designer. I love everything except this @ symbol in Cabin. This font is one of my favorite among Google fonts. Because of this @ design i can't use it for many websites that i love to use. I wish to change this @ type to a normal one. Kindly accept this as a request.

I've heard this a few times, so I'd like to request moving the current @ to a stylistic set.

Update sources to match TTF v1.007

Following #1 the source files should be updated to produce the same name tables in new builds, and DSIG tables.

smcp feature?

The sc glyphs are there but the smcp feature isn't enabled.

Variable font not behaving in Adobe InDesign 16.1 for Mac

Hi all,
I work for a client who started using Cabin font. I have been using the TTF, 8 separate weight files, for several months.

Now, another graphic designer for same client started using Cabin Variable. When I install these fonts, they freak out in InDesign. If a doc uses Variable, but I have TTF installed, InDesign does not throw an error for missing font. Is this because names are not unique? Also, it seems like InDesign is seeing the Regular and Italic basic weights, but not working well with the other weights. I'm not speaking of adjusting the variables, just not seeing Medium Italic, Bold Italic.

When I open a client document, Bold is displaying as Bold Italic and I cannot change it. The order of the fonts in the font menu CHANGE. It's freaking me out.

While I would love to just use the TTF, I cannot change my client's files from Variable to TTF.

Shouldn't these fonts have unique names or numbers, so they don't conflict? if they were unique, one could have all three font types loaded simultaneously. Not necessarily a great idea, but one could search and replace.

Thanks for any help. I'm basically fucked if I can't work with these files.

screen shots and MOV attached.

Cabin.Font.Glitch.InDesign.mov

metrics out of sync in italics

metrics out of sync in italics @kalapi

Truetype version rendering incorrectly

When using the truetype version of the font, I'm seeing uppercase A render incorrectly. It has white gaps in the middle of the letter, where the horizontal bar of the A meets the sides. It sort of looks like it's the corners of the horizontal bar, where they overlap with the sides.

Note that the woff2 version of the font does NOT have this issue. I did not test every other file format Google offers.

You can reproduce with this code:

<head>
<title>Test</title>
<style>
    @font-face {
        font-family: 'Cabin';
        font-style: italic;
        font-weight: 400;
        font-stretch: normal;
        font-display: swap;
        src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/cabin/v17/u-4V0qWljRw-Pd815fNqc8T_wAFcX-c37MPiNYlWniJ2hJXHx_Klwg.ttf) format('truetype');
    }
    @font-face {
        font-family: 'Cabin';
        font-style: italic;
        font-weight: 600;
        font-stretch: normal;
        font-display: swap;
        src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/cabin/v17/u-4V0qWljRw-Pd815fNqc8T_wAFcX-c37MPiNYlWniJ2hJXHGfWlwg.ttf) format('truetype');
    }
    @font-face {
        font-family: 'Cabin';
        font-style: normal;
        font-weight: 400;
        font-stretch: normal;
        font-display: swap;
        src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/cabin/v17/u-4X0qWljRw-PfU81xCKCpdpbgZJl6XFpfEd7eA9BIxxkV2EL7E.ttf) format('truetype');
    }
    @font-face {
        font-family: 'Cabin';
        font-style: normal;
        font-weight: 600;
        font-stretch: normal;
        font-display: swap;
        src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/cabin/v17/u-4X0qWljRw-PfU81xCKCpdpbgZJl6XFpfEd7eA9BIxxkYODL7E.ttf) format('truetype');
    }
    @font-face {
        font-family: 'Cabin';
        font-style: normal;
        font-weight: 700;
        font-stretch: normal;
        font-display: swap;
        src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/cabin/v17/u-4X0qWljRw-PfU81xCKCpdpbgZJl6XFpfEd7eA9BIxxkbqDL7E.ttf) format('truetype');
    }
    h1 {
        font-family: 'Cabin';
    }
</style>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Aesop</h1>
</body>

variable font axes

Which axes does the variable font support?

Have you plans to add new weights?

Maybe... Light and/or ExtraLight?