Besley* is designed and maintained by Owen Earl, who is the creator of the font foundry indestructible type*.
The design process of Besley* started with looking at what works with Clarendon and maintaining those assets, while expanding design and functionality. In order to maintain a sturdy and heavy weighting, while adding text-size readability, wide capitals are used alongside appropriately widthed lowercase letters. To make Besley* render well on screens, a larger x-height was chosen. The medium weight of Besley* is bolder than typical fonts of the digital era, to give that cowboy era weight. Italics were built into the design process, so they feel like part of the family, instead of an after-thought.
v1.0
Original Release.
v1.1
Added the Fatface weight. Corrected kerning.
Besley* was created using the free and open source font building application FontForge. To build it yourself you are going to need to download a copy of FontForge, which you can get from their website, or can be build using the github branch. Start by opening the files located in the "FontForge Files" directory in FontForge. Make sure to use the ROUND versions. Generate using Ctrl-Shift-G to generate your font!
You can then add True-Type hinting following the instruction over at ttfautohint.
If you want to skip all that jazz and download the compleated font, visit the website.
If you have questions or want to help out, send me and email at [email protected]