Font Forum

Ok ... so I got the name wrong! I almost never use 'Arial' except at work where it is mandated (and even then I sometimes sustitute Calibri and nobody notices). :roll: Oh, you putting Ariel rather than Arial serendipitously had the effect of me finding some very interesting things that I did not kn...

Hi Alfred Thank you for a very interesting link. As for whether it, and others, will get into Unicode, well, look at what has happened with emoji as there was much discussion and, if I remember correctly, the original reason for the decision to include them into Unicode was they were being used in m...

I noticed that PJMiller mentioned Ariel (with an e) whereas the typeface is Arial (with an a). Seeing Ariel, I remembered that there was a Britannia class steam locomotive named Ariel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BR_%27Britannia%27_Class_locomotives I found it as number 70016. From time to...

Hi Alfred

I have found the following.

http://www.nhsscotlandci.scot.nhs.uk/wp ... elines.pdf

Section 4 is about fonts.

It is interesting that the NHS has different fonts in Scotland and England.

William

I have been reading the following web page with interest. https://www.england.nhs.uk/nhsidentity/identity-guidelines/fonts/ This is for the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The National Health Service is the mostly free-at-the-point-of-need State healthcare system in the United Kingdom...

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/e ... t_MoMA.htm

If you look in https://www.youtube.com/ and search for

Emoji MoMA

there are some videos, some showing the exhibition, which are interesting as some of the displayed images change.

William

Thank you for replying and for having tried some tests and thank you for your advice.

William

Thank you for your prompt and helpful reply.

William

I am using FontCreator 8.0. ---- There is the Tools Import Image... facility. When doing that one can choose various options, including threshold level and a smooth filter. ---- There is the facility to paste an image from the clipboard and contours are generated by FontCreator. I have found in the ...

> Are there any characters which are needed for Esperanto which are not present in Munson ? > Give me a list and they will appear in the next iteration. That is kind of you, thank you. I have checked only the Roman and you have all of the twelve needed. Ĉ ĉ Ĝ ĝ Ĥ ĥ Ĵ ĵ Ŝ ŝ Ŭ ŭ However, I did notice ...

I notice that the font supports Esperanto. Excellent. William Overington Tuesday 18 April 2017 Does anyone still use Esperanto for actual communication rather than just as a novelty ? http://www.esperanto.org.uk/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_Zamenhof Esperanto was supposed to be a pan ...

Thank you Alfred. My suggestion has worked out well. Michael has posted to the Unicode mailing list and there are some replies. One has a very helpful link. Here is a link to that reply. http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2017-m05/0011.html The post provides a link to the http://www.smufl....

> Could I have some suggestions, please? You could perhaps try the following. http://www.unicode.org/ Then General Information cascade-menu to Mail Lists http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html Choose unicode@unicode.org though not here as it comes out as trying to start an email yet on that...

I have been looking at the Roman and the Italic. I remember Monotype Modern Roman from metal type. Munson Roman has the upward hook lower right on both a lowercase a and on an uppercase R and that looks good. Modern Roman and Modern Italic were often used for typesetting of mathematical text books, ...

I have produced a typecase PDF document for the characters necessary for typesetting chess diagrams using this format.
A PDF document of 8.57 kilobytes.

William