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FS#5967 - nimbus-18 font
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Opened by Alexander Levin (fml2) - Sunday, 10 September 2006, 23:00 GMT+1
Opened by Alexander Levin (fml2) - Sunday, 10 September 2006, 23:00 GMT+1
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DetailsFirst shot at nimbus-18 (my favourite shape). All basic glyphs have been designed, so the rest should be trivial. Markun, are you reading this? ;-)
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Closed by Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Monday, 29 January 2007, 09:45 GMT+1
Reason for closing: Accepted
Additional comments about closing: Thanks, committed to SVN just no!
Monday, 29 January 2007, 09:45 GMT+1
Reason for closing: Accepted
Additional comments about closing: Thanks, committed to SVN just no!
Looks really nice in the gigabeat simulator. I'll let you know if I add some more glyphs.
- made little cyrillic i look like latin u
- adjusted little cyrillic f to have the same height as latin o
- made little cyrillic l and d look like latin v
These changes should also be applied to nimbus-12 and nimbus-14.
The linked charts there might be helpful in further expanding the font.
You can get some inspiration here maybe:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/apple/chicago/
although I think they made it a bit too 'round' compared to the original BDF font.
btw, I noticed that the Chicago font is used in the 1995 movie Hackers ;)
some time ago I made up a WPS for my taste. It's clean and simple and contains only the bare minimum about the current song. No technical details like file format or bit rate. Actually it's so simple that it works well also with nimbus-19. So I thought I'd share it. But I don't have a wiki account, so I place it here. On H120, the WPS works well with any font up to and including 14 points (I used nimbus-14 before) and 18 or more points. 15, 16, and 17 points are not so good since the half of the last line is cut off.
Here it is (the first line is '%we', the lst line ends with 'Fn>'):
%we
%ac%s%?ia<%ia|%d2>
%ac%s%?it<%it|%fn>
%al%pc%ac%pp/%pe%ar-%pr
%pb
%ac%s%t4%?It<%It|%Fn>