Cardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists. Since it may be used to prepare materials for publication, it also contains features that are required for high-quality typography, such as ligatures, text figures (also known as old style numerals), true small capitals and a variety of punctuation and space characters. It may also be used to document and discuss the features of Unicode that are applicable to the these disciplines, as we work to help colleagues understand the value (and limitations) of Unicode.
There are several reasons why one should prefer LaTeX to a WYSIWYG word processor like Microsoft Word: portability, lightness, security are just a few of them (not to mention that LaTeX is free). There is still a further reason that definitely convinced m
45rpm record label designs, visionary typography, handpainted business signs, cult of the goat in Bock beer labels, ephemera and the world of old paper, word drawings in 'they called her styrene,' shrines & altars & holy places...
Diese Dokument soll eine kleine Einführung in die (beschränkten) typografischen Möglichkeiten unter OpenOffice.org / StarOffice bieten. Der Aufbau orientiert sich dabei an dem Artikel „typokurz – Einige wichtige typografische Regeln“ von Christop
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its’ primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
msttcorefonts is a Linux package providing many Microsoft fonts for easy installation. Personally leaving readers out to dry when a bulletproof font-family is not provided.
We expand our collection of high-quality freefonts we’ve put together few months ago (and started one year ago). Some of newbies are quite old, however they haven’t been known for a while.
R. Doubleday. MX Design Conference 2005 website, (Sep 23, 2005)Paper presented at the MX Design Conference 2005: Design Perspectives Envisioning design for the XXI century. October 26th, 27th, 28th, 2005.