Zuecos CF Regular Font

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ZuecosCF-Regular.ttf

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Author's note

ZUECOS (Spanish for clogs or wooden shoes) is my completely redrawn version of Italian which I found in Specimen of Leavenworth's Patent Wood Type Manufactured by J.M. Debow. (Allentown, New Jersey, n.d., but probably 1840s). It is online at the NYPL.
I named this font ZUECOS because of the juxtaposition of very thick slab serifs and their triangular spurs, with comparatively thin horizontal stems. These shapes reminded me of the shoes commonly worn in Mexico by young and old. For example, rotate L to the left 90 degrees and, ya esta!, you have a zueco in profile. ZUECOS is an all-caps, bold display typeface suitable for use in Old West and Mexican-inspired designs, or in a strongly right-angled geometric design.

ZUECOS supports the following orthographies: Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sami, Norwegian Bokml, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkish, Turkmen, Upper Sorbian, Vunjo, Welsh, Western Frisian, and Zulu.

This font lent itself to ligatures, so I made quite a few. In addition, there are 29 useful symbols, including arrows, currency, some mathematics, a pilcrow and the like.   

As far as I can determine, the original wood type font is in the public domain.

ZUECOS was created using Adobe Photoshop, Glyphs and FontLab VI.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Copyright 2019 by Chuck Mountain
Font family
Zuecos CF
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
1.000;UKWN;ZuecosCF-Regular
Full font name
Zuecos CF Regular
Name table version
Version 1.000
Postscript font name
ZuecosCF-Regular
Manufacturer name
Chuck's Fonts (CF)
Designer
Chuck Mountain, after Specimen of Leavenworth's Patent Wood Type Manufactured by J.M. Debow (1840?)

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2019-06-04
Revision1
Glyph count338
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for editing allowed
Family classNo classification
WeightBold
WidthExpanded
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced