From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Mon Nov 13 2006 - 11:34:12 CST
James Kass wrote:
> I'm under the impression, though I could well be mistaken, that
> John Hudson might be working on a Plane One math font. If so,
> we can all look forward to a professional-quality font for these
> characters.
Just noticed this comment.
My partner Ross Mills and I worked on the Cambria Math font for Office 2007. The initial
Cambria font and much of the math alphanumeric characters were designed by Jelle Bosma at
Monotype (including fraktur). We revised some of this, further extended the character set,
and added the math layout intelligence to work with Microsoft's new math engine. Ross did
most of the work on this project.
> Meanwhile, I'm trying to get a new version of Code2001 ready.
> It will have some minor improvements, but the math Fraktur
> will still be, uh, pretty awful.
I've just finished designing a set of plane 1 fraktur characters for use as symbols in
textual criticism. These will be included in the SBL BibLit font, which will be released
by the Society of Biblical Literature later this month (I'll be demo'ing this and other
SBL fonts at their conference in Washington DC next weekend). I'm thinking about making
the fraktur glyph outlines available as open source, since I'm not intending to make a
complete fraktur typeface out of them and I feel sorry for anyone else trying to make
halfway decent fraktur glyphs for math or other symbol purposes. The design I used is
based on exemplars in a 1950s book on German sign painting, and represent a kind of
'generic' fraktur: not very stylish, but adequate for math and textual criticism purposes.
John Hudson
-- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC john@tiro.ca Marie Antoinette was a woman whose core values were chocolate, sex, love, nature and Japanese ceramics. Frankly, there are worse principles of government than that. - Karen Burshtein
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