Archive for the ‘Fonts’ Category
Montag, Oktober 5th, 2009
Looking at my "JPod" paperback I was shocked to see that they used Arial instead of Helvetica. Of course this can't be intended, because Helvetica is the Coupland font. I suppose, somewhere on the workflow from the "graphic-designer" to the printing device the whole Arial-Helvetica-exchange-madness went berserk. And no one ...
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Dienstag, März 10th, 2009
For a dictionary project we used lots of phonetic glyphs. The most of them can be made from an ordinary font just by transforming (rotating, mirroring) a glyph or attach an accent to it. There is also the "ezh" character, and unfortunately the Minion fonts used didn't have it, but ...
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Donnerstag, November 27th, 2008
Following my assumption in recent discussion on usent I modifed quick & dirty the mathptmx sources slanting the Symbol font not too much (0.120) and slanting the Times-Italic font back to match Symbol.
Below is a piece of testmath set that way. The whole PDF can be found here. Especially in ...
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Mittwoch, Oktober 15th, 2008
This is an example page from Ohm's work. It has been published 1827 and reprintend in 1989.
Some commentars: The math bin operators like "+", "-", "= " are as espected big sized; the space around the relaton ":" are also (es espected by me) relative big (I plan an article ...
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Mittwoch, Oktober 15th, 2008
There was recent complaint on the german tex newsgroup, that the signs plus, minus, etc. in mathpazo, wich are taken from CM math fonts, are too big and don't match Palatino. I had the same complaint time ago from a copyeditor, and IIRC he complained about the big plus ...
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Freitag, September 26th, 2008
Отдавна и в доста много шрифтове курсивното "ж" се рисува като наклонен вариант на изправеното.
За щастие напоследък в някои шрифтове, като показания по-долу Warnock, буквата се изписва по-добре, с приличаща на светкавица връзка между двете дъги. Да се надяваме, че тази тенденция ще се запази.
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Montag, September 15th, 2008
Recently I've read an article by Karel Piska in the EuroBachoTeX 2007 proceedings about his tools to comare glyphs at different resolutions, from different fonts, etc. The shown figures were quite impressive, so I decided to test the tools. The small archive contains bash and awk scripts ...
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Freitag, September 5th, 2008
Schriften wie Times oder Minion werden oft wegen des Platzersparnisses benutzt. Solche eng laufende Schriften haben aber auch kleine Wortzwischenräume (WZR). Bei Minion z. B. ist der normale WZR bei 10pt etwa 2,61pt. Dieser kleine Abstand kann nicht viel varrieren. Wird er deutlich kleiner, stehen die Wörter ziemlich eng aneinander, ...
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Sonntag, August 3rd, 2008
OpenType Schriften versprechen neben ein Mehr an Glyphs und Funktionen vor allem Automatismus. Voraussetzung dafür ist, u. a. die einheitliche Zeichenbenennung über alle Schriftschnitte. Dass das nicht immer der Fall ist, zeigen die beiden folgenden Bilder:
Es handelt sich um die Ligaur IJ als Kpitälchen. In einigen Schnitten wird ...
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