Quicksand is a sans serif typeface designed by Andrew Paglinawan in 2008 using geometric shapes as it's core foundation. It is designed for display purposes but legible enough to use in small sizes as well. Quicksand Family is available in three styles which are Light, Regular and Bold including true italics for each weight.
Go to you local Quicksand clone, in the source directory: $ cd path/to/local/directory/sources
And run from terminal: $ gftools builder Quicksand.glyphs
2013 October 21 (Andrew Paglinawan) Version 2.0
- Completely re-drawn from scratch
- Increased x-Height from 500 to 515 for better legibility
- Normalized weights
- Refined letterforms
- Improved kerning
- Improved spacing
- Replaced the Ampersand with something less flashy
- Added true italics for each weight
- Added Unicase
- Added Language support for Western, Central, South Eastern European and Afrikaans
2008 October 12 (Andrew Paglinawan) Version 1.0
- First public release
If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and description (D). This list is in alphabetical order.
N: Andrew Paglinawan E: andrew.paglinawan@gmail.com W: http://andrewpaglinawan.com D: Designer - Andrew Paglinawan - original Roman glyphs
For more information about this font and my work please visit: http://www.andrewpaglinawan.com