Foundry List
Provided Formats
Macintosh
OpenType PS (.otf) &
legacy PostScript Type 1
Basic font only
Windows
OpenType PS (.otf) &
legacy PostScript Type 1
Basic font only
Note: The mudTyper only shows the Basic font
Galaxie Cassiopeia
mudTyper+Weights
Example+About
Licensing
Chester Jenkins
2006
2 fonts
♥ Village exclusive
About Galaxie Cassiopeia
Galaxie was always planned to be a large family of families, all designed to work together. Cassiopeia is the second Galaxie typeface to be completed, after the publication of Polaris in 2004. An egyptian and serif in the pipeline. Cassiopeia is a constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, one of Ptolemy's 48 listed constellations, and the home of two several notable deep sky objects. The constellation is named after a vain queen in Greek mythology.
Cassiopeia is available as two fonts: one a complex OpenType font using advanced feature programming for natural letter-to-letter joins; the other a basic non-joining font.
Galaxie Cassiopeia (on the left) compared with Galaxie Cassiopeia Basic (on the right)
The user turns on the OpenType Contextual Alternates feature and types; there are 10 versions of each lowercase letter and 5 versions of each uppercase letter. The "calt" feature will select the correct version of the letter for its context.
The 10 versions of the lowercase "n". There are initial and medial versions with tails designed to link with round and flat letters, as well as r and s.
The 5 versions of the uppercase "B". There are standalone and initial versions with tails designed to link with round and flat letters, as well as r and s.
Help with OpenType programming was provided by the brilliant Tal Leming. Thanks for feedback and guidance to Christian Schwartz, (who also suggested the name Cassiopeia,) and Peter Bain, (who fixed my lowercase r,) and always to Adam Twardoch for Polish and polish.
Supported languages
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arumanian, Asturian, Basque, Breton, romanised Bulgarian, romanised Burmese, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Old English, Middle English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, traditional German, transliterated Greek, Greenlandic, Hawai'ian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, romanised Japanese, Kashubian, romanised Kazakh, romanised Korean, Kurdish, romanised Kyrgyz, romanised Laotian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, romanised Macedonian, Maltese, Maori, Moldavian, romanised Mongolian, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansch, romanised Russian, Inari Saami, North Saami, Lule Saami, Skolt Saami, South Saami, Samoan, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Spanish, Traditional Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, romanised Tajik, Tswana, Tongan, Turkish, romanised Turkmen, romanised Ukrainian, Uzbek, Walloon, Welsh, Wolof, Yapese, and many transliterated South Asian languages.
Supported ISO codepages
8859-1 Latin 1 (West European)
8859-2 Latin 2 (Central European)
8859-3 Latin 3 (South European)
8859-4 Latin 4 (Baltic)
8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish)
8859-10 Latin 6 (Scandinavian)
8859-13 Latin 7 (Baltic 2)
8859-15 Latin 9
8859-16 Latin 10
Glyphset contents
// Ten versions of each lowercase glyph, and five versions of each uppercase glyph allow for natural linking of letters.
// Monetary symbols for Euro, Dollar, Cent, Pound, Guilder, Yen
// A full complement of spaces and dashes
// Mirrored double quotation marks
// The interrobang
// &c.
Note that Galaxie Cassiopeia Basic ships in BOTH OpenType PS and legacy PostScript Type 1 formats for Mac and Windows. The regular joining script version ONLY ships in OpenType PS.
The five Cassiopeia Commandments:
I. Thou shalt install the font using FontBook, or by copying the font into the Library/Fonts folder.
II. Thou shalt install only one version of the Basic font; OpenType or PS.
III. Thou shalt activate the "Contextual Alternates" OpenType feature.
IV. Thou shalt use Metrics kerning, not any other kind.
V. Thou shalt not use any tracking.