Font Log

Cooper Hewitt Typeface

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This file provides information on the Cooper Hewitt typeface. This information
should be distributed along with the Cooper Hewitt fonts and any derivative works.

Basic Font Information

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Cooper Hewitt is a Unicode sans serif typeface family, created for the Cooper
Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum - cooperhewitt.org - in 2014 as part of the
museum's new visual identity.

The typeface was designed by Chester Jenkins at Village Type and Design LLC,
working with Eddie Opara and his group at Pentagram, and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian
Design Museum director Caroline Baumann and her team.

The typeface at June 2014 has 7 weights in roman and italic, in the Latin script
only.

Supported Codepages and Languages

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ISO 8859-1 / LATIN1

Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, English (UK and US), Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German,
Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Irish (new orthography), Italian, Latin
(basic classical orthography), Leonese, Luxembourgish (basic classical
orthography), Malay, Manx, Māori, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Occitan,
Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish,
Walloon, Welsh

ISO 8859-2 / LATIN2

Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (when in the
Latin script), Slovak, Slovene, Upper Sorbian, and Lower Sorbian

ISO 8859-3 / LATIN3

South European: Esperanto, Maltese, Turkish

ISO 8859-4 / LATIN4

North European: Estonian, Greenlandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Sami

ISO 8859-9 / LATIN5

Turkish

ISO 8859-10 / LATIN6

Nordic

ISO 8859-13 / LATIN7

Baltic Rim

ISO 8859-14 / LATIN8

Celtic: Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh

ISO 8859-15 / LATIN9

Afrikaans, Albanian, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English (US and modern
British), Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish
(New orthography), Italian, Kurdish (Unified Alphabet), Latin (basic classical
orthography), Luxembourgish (basic classical orthography), Malay (Rumi script),
Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Occitan, Portuguese (European and Brazilian),
Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Walloon

ISO 8859-16 / LATIN10

Albanian, Croatian, French, German, Hungarian, Irish Gaelic (new orthography),
Italian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian

Change Log
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(This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.)

2014/06/16
Initial release.

Information for Developers/Contributors

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The release of Cooper Hewitt v1.000 (and any subsequent versions) under the OFL
license provides a means for people to modify the fonts to meet their needs and
contribute to the project. For information on what you're allowed to
change or modify, consult the OFL and OFL-FAQ.

Anyone can make their own modified version of Cooper Hewitt (using a different
name), but Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Village Type and Design LLC
will continue to maintain and develop the canonical version of the Cooper Hewitt
typeface. As the package maintainer, we welcome contributions. Here are some things
to keep in mind:

Format: We are happy to accept contributions, but to maximise the chances of us

including your work, please make it available to us (via email or a URL) as a UFO
file.

Source files: The primary source files for the fonts are the UFO files.

Copyright attribution: If you submit something for inclusion in the main Cooper
Hewitt fonts, we will ask you to affirm that it is your original work, and ask you
to assign the copyright of your work to Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
This is to ensure that future releases can be made under improved versions of the
OFL without requiring further permission. This follows
the same principle used by the FSF. The Cooper Hewitt typeface is property of a
not-for-profit organization committed to the dissemination of knowledge and
information, and that any contributions incorporated in the fonts will always be
available under the OFL or a similar license.

Quality: Because we want to be able to guarantee a high level of quality for the
primary Cooper Hewitt typeface, we will review submissions carefully. Please don't
be discouraged if we do not include a submission for this reason, or ask you to
make specific revisions, or make revisions we deem necessary or desirable.

Types of contributions: If you wish to make a contribution - a set of additional

glyphs, scripts, code, etc. - please contact us before you do any work to see if it
is a contribution we currently need. Every addition adds to the complexity of the
project and needs to be carefully planned. This also avoids two people working on
the same type of addition at the same time.
When submissions will be included: We will revise the fonts when major updates are
needed - new versions of Unicode, for example - and/or when we have material for a
useful addition to the typeface. If you wish to make submissions, please contact
us.

Acknowledgements
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(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications be sure

to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description (D). This list is
sorted by last name in alphabetical order.)

N: Chester Jenkins
E: chester@vllg.com
W: http://vllg.com/
D: Original Designer

N: Tal Leming
E: tal@typesupply.com
W: http://typesupply.com/
D: UFO file preparation

The Cooper Hewitt typeface is maintained by Village Type and Design LLC:
CooperHewitt@vllg.com

(We acknowledge SIL, the company behind the Open Font License (OFL); this Font Log
is based on the Fontlog created for the Gentium typeface project.)