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FAQ Free Fonts

... by Juan Pablo De Gregorio . Humanist text and slab serif. Must contact De Gregorio (or post your e-mail address on his comments ... Free Fonts on by the Storm Type Foundry Greek Free Greek Fonts and more by George Triantafyllakos Free ...

Wiki - Miguel Sousa - 17 Dec 2011 - 12:34am - 0 comments

Spiro 0.01 release

... stroke width, and horizontal stroke width, draw a sans serif uppercase H. Then draw an uppercase O. If this can be done easily, then ... bad and function badly when systematized too completely. Greek and Arabic types especially would not take well to this logical approach ...

Forum topic - raph - 9 May 2007 - 7:19am - 142 comments - 0 attachments

Fonts that resemble Klim's feijoa?

... them, considering all the other shapes? They jar me. The serif version of Salamanca (it is coming, yes?...) might be the place for such ... Galician, German, traditional German, transliterated Greek, Greenlandic, Guarani, Hawai'ian, Hungarian, Ibo, Icelandic, Indonesian, ...

Forum topic - Palatine - 4 Dec 2006 - 9:07am - 75 comments - 0 attachments

Books

... -Goudy, Frederic W. Oak Knoll Press, 1979 Greek Letters: From Tablets to Pixels - Macrakis, Michael S. ed. Oak ... Hill & Dale Private Press, 1989 Origin of the Serif, The: Brush Writing & Roman Letters (2nd Ed.) -Catich, Edward M. ...

Wiki - circehouse - 2 Jul 2011 - 11:17am - 0 comments

Faithful revivals from early printed pages

... them differently. More like Bodoni. The variety of serif treatment in Incunabula type accomodates the fact that had they been made ... I think Griffo, perhaps following his experience of making Greek type, cut variety in vertical alignment into his latin punches). What I ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments

Helvetica

... : Helvetica Helvetica is a Grotesque sans serif face, also classified as Lineal under the Vox-ATypI Classification Of ... each of which has over 1,500 glyphs—representing Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Arabic. The Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew were drawn ...

Wiki - Sii Daniels - 26 May 2011 - 10:48am - 0 comments

Survey: justified or rag-right?

... Stephen I find rags a bit distractive, but certainly sans serif faces often look better on rags since they are much more sensitive to ... * And there's a pattern here. Don't ask Gerry about Greek type?! > when are you going to stop theorizing about readability, ...

Forum topic - Palatine - 22 Nov 2005 - 3:13pm - 188 comments - 0 attachments

Must Have Collection

... or a design firm. But I think a solid set should include a serif family (or 2 or 3) with all the bells and whistles, an extensive ... set, or also a CE version of the font? Or maybe a greek/cyrillic charset is needed as well? Would you use it for a newspaper or ...

Forum topic - mike gastin - 18 Dec 2004 - 7:50am - 38 comments - 0 attachments

OpenType Superiors Feature: Why do letters and numbers have different baselines?

... variants, with full language support (poly Greek + Cyrillic), with small caps and swash features -- and all this in a ... Lucida series; TeX-compatible extensions to both Lucida serif and Lucida Bright are available. I believe Adobe sells the former, but ... letters (a smorgasbord of forms derived from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and the IPA) to indicate various phonetics. Most, but not all, ...

Forum topic - dan_reynolds - 19 Dec 2005 - 1:52am - 60 comments - 0 attachments

What are your pet peeves about common typefaces?

... My pet peeve: the silly "I" in Bell Gothic. It's a serif "I" in an (otherwise great) sans serif typeface. Oh, and many common ... with MathType, but it just isn't that pretty. And with Greek characters, etc., I end up having to import from MyriadPro Italic. ...

Forum topic - mwebert - 6 Sep 2006 - 3:11pm - 129 comments - 0 attachments