WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING TO https://bitbucket.org/sortsmill/sortsmill-fonts

Out of date information follows:

New policy (2010.09.24): From now on I plan to zip from project to project in little bits, including starting up new projects whenever I feel like it. This is how I usually end up doing things, anyway, only occasionally getting something into "release" condition, and only a little more often into a state where I make significant use of the font myself. Because announcing a font encourages me to feel guilty if I work on it in this way, and start up many individual projects that never get finished, I plan not to catalog my new projects on this page anymore. You can see what a project is about by loading its sfd file into fontforge and guessing what it is about. Or I might set up the Wiki sometime. Or you can read the Mercurial logs and guess from what they say. Etc.

New: You can embed Sorts Mill fonts, including some of the incomplete designs, as well as other fonts, using the URLs listed at http://crudfactory.com/fontserver/show The server tries to provide a font that the reader' browser can handle. (SVG fonts currently are not supported. Also note that the whole website is recent and is under development, and also that I intend to put more fonts in the list.)

Note: The owner of this project is disabled and truly cannot fulfill requests for fonts or programs; for example, if a font has no companion italic or bold, the project owner cannot fulfill a request for the companion font. However, because the license for this project is very permissive, other developers can simply incorporate the fonts and programs into their own work; they need not collaborate with me (which is impossible), and most likely they will not need my specific permission or a license exception.

Though it is not mandatory, I would not mind seeing the results! And, I guess, if the derived work is non-free, I wouldn't mind obtaining a license.

Suggestions and bug reports are welcome, of course, even if they are not always dealt with promptly. :)

Enhancements to FontForge include:

User-tailored construction of composite glyphs, glyph references, etc.

"Spacing by anchors" -- a partly automated method for computing spacing and kerning simultaneously. This is not an autokerning system -- the designer works "by eye", but the task is replaced with a much less tedious one.

The enhancements are included in the Sorts Mill Tools package (which is based on GNU Autotools). There isn't much documentation, unfortunately, and also there could be a lot of change between versions.

Fonts:

Goudy Oldstyle and Italic (based on ATF foundry type)

Goudy Bookletter 1911 (based on Frederic Goudy's Kennerley roman; in the public domain)

Prociono (a roman-blackletter blend initially inspired by Leipziger Antiqua; in the public domain)

Linden Hill (roman and italic based on Frederic Goudy's Deepdene)

Fanwood and Fanwood Text (based on the original metal typeface described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield_%28typeface%29; Fanwood Text is the same as Fanwood but slightly darker and reduced in contrast)

The downloads ending in .zip are font packages; the downloads ending in .tar.bz2 are source packages. The source packages are based on GNU Autotools and should be straightforward (configure/make/make install), though first you will need to install the Sorts Mill Tools package (also based on GNU Autotools). To build from Mercurial sources, prepare the build by making a sacrifice to the Olympian gods and then typing "autoreconf --install". I can't make a new release every time I improve hinting, but I do check in my changes promptly.

Interesting unfinished fonts:

Sorts Mill Kis is based loosely on Sol Hess's version of "Janson" and currently is my preferred font for screen display and @font-face. The roman and italic aren't completely spaced and kerned and they don't yet have all the features I would like them to have. The bold is usable if you don't mind ugliness, and the bold italic is at the moment non-existent. (I'm not a big fan of boldface.)