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On April 23, 2008 High-Logic released Scanahand, a font generator for Windows that allows the user to print out a form, manually fill in the glyphs, scan it into the program and generate new fonts. The most recent version, Scanahand 7.0, was released in January 2020 and last updated in July 2020.
The font is inspired by ancient incised Greek and Roman letter carvings, [1] with geometric shapes used for the main construction. For example, its stylized Q is based on qoppa, an ancient form of Q. The O with a cross is an early form of theta. It is an all-capital font, but with different capital glyphs for both lowercase and capital letters.
A font editor is a class of application software specifically designed to create or modify font files. Font editors differ greatly depending on if they are designed to edit bitmap fonts or outline fonts. Most modern font editors deal with the outline fonts. Bitmap fonts uses an older technology and are most commonly used in console applications.
The Bauer Bodoni typeface, with samples of the three of the fonts in the family: Roman (or regular), bold, and italic.. In metal typesetting, a font (American English) or fount (Commonwealth English) is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface, defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design.
With the advent of digital technology, the Outline version was dropped from the family, while the Bauhaus Heavy was made part of the now text/display offering. Under Adobe's development, the font family supports the ISO-Adobe character set for the PostScript version. In OpenType Std version, it supports the Adobe Western 2 character set.
Google Fonts (formerly known as Google Web Fonts) is a computer font and web font service owned by Google. This includes free and open source font families, an interactive web directory for browsing the library, and APIs for using the fonts via CSS [ 2 ] and Android . [ 3 ]
"Optima nova" is a redesign of the original font family, designed by Hermann Zapf and Linotype GmbH type director Akira Kobayashi. [15] [16] The new family contains seven font weights, adding light, demi, and heavy font weights, but removing extra black weight. Medium weight is readjusted to between medium and bold weights in the old family scale.
A guide explaining the names used by ATF for their many somewhat related 'gothic' types. Franklin Gothic itself is an extra-bold sans-serif type. It draws upon earlier, nineteenth century models from many of the twenty-three foundries consolidated into American Type Founders in 1892.