A Free Font

In 2008 I was searching for a free calligraphic font and realized, that there was not much around in handwritten style. Indeed, I only found Scriptina which is a great font but a bit too chaotic. Hence I decided to work on an own font and Miama is the result. You can download it here.
Before you really contact me read the license (OFL), please! Most of the things I am asked are answered there. If you still have questions or just want to marry me, you may consider an email.

Design Principles

My goal was to design the handwriting of my girlfriend as a digital font. One glyph should go neatlessly into another. The font has been designed with the free font editor FontForge.

Features

Characters

Other than most of the free fonts, Miama has more than the 256 standard glyphs. Currently there are 500 Glyphs available (400 of them released), among them are umlauts, accented glyphs, greek letters (not released yet),


small caps (not released yet),


symbols (not released yet).

Ligatures

Miama supports not only standard ligatures but also some old ligatures.

Use

Of course you can (after installing the font) use Miama with any program you like to. However, I recommend you to use X_ƎT_eX, which is part of any modern L^aT_eX-Systems. Other typesetting systems, namely Microsoft Word, Abiword etc., are quite inexact: The following two pictures show "is" in Miama at 36pt. The left one is from Word, the right one is from X_ƎT_eX.


For logos, poster etc. use Inkscape (or some expensive stuff).

Future

In version 0.3 some glyphs will be revised, most kernings and most accents will be improved and about 100 new glyphs will be available. Something like a roadmap:

• greek characters (version 0.3)
• small caps (version 0.3 or 0.4)
• more ligatures (versions 0.3 and 0.4)
• symbols (versions 0.3 and 0.4)
• cyrillic characters (far away)
• alternative characters (far away)
• bold style (far, far away, but already experimented)

Examples

Logos

This is the official logo of the font Miama.


Existentialistic logo:

Other

An invitation to a poker evening:


This is a header I designed with Miama for a concert called "salon orange".


And another try: