I am curious to know what fonts people are using for the Devanagari script. I want good #hindi rendering. Please don't suggest fonts which use a character map to render Latin characters as Devanagari characters.
Suggestions for other #indian language fonts are also appreciated. Thanks!
i am fascinated by this typeface history. as it turns out, Gerald Giampa was the owner of the LTC Spire typeface when it was licensed for use in the GeoWorks operating environment.
i had no idea that he was canadian, and moved his foundry to Prince Edward Island before it was destroyed in a tidal wave. P22 bought his font faces, and designed this absolutely gorgeous traditional web site called The Giampa Tour. it disappeared from the web over 10 years ago, and this is probably the first time it has been seen in a decade. it's full of incredibly nerdy typeface history, including some fantastic rants on how shitty Adobe was to deal with, even back in the late 1980s. 😆
this is what the world wide web was made for, and i'm so glad WBM managed to preserve a working copy, as P22 has been out of business for many years - and its website gone with it.
i've rebuilt the entire site using the WBM's snapshot for public viewing here, where it will remain as an online museum and tribute to Gerald Giampa's incredible work:
Fontsource.org - It includes most (all?) #GoogleFonts & some other #OpenSource#Fonts as well. All available for download/self-hosting.
One thing that drives me nuts abt GF is it SUCKS ASS at filtering. Fontsource's UI is way better for narrowing down fonts, so it's MUCH better for searching.
It's also really pretty! A very well designed UI that makes me enjoy browsing. Super stoked about this :)
For A Project™, I need to learn about the historical origins of #bitmap#fonts. Highly doubt these were first created on computers; where in the world have rectangular #tiles or #bricks carried a textual message? (The tiled signs in the #NYC subway are #mosaics, not based on a grid.) Where did bitmap fonts really start?
Getting Greek characters to display properly in a PDF generated from Markdown with Pandoc has caused some frustration today - here's what eventually worked for me:
Use xelatex instead of pdflatex:
pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex
Use Linux Liberatine O as the font in your Markdown metadata:
mainfont: "Linux Libertine O"
I'm a bit sad that I can't use Palatino, which I think is a nicer font, but Linux Libertine 'just worked' and is free (as in beer and speech).
@masukomi Oh! I don't know what sort of net you've cast to look for #fonts, but I've been a big fan of Blambot for well over a decade (mostly comic oriented but a solid mix of free and paid-for styles). Thought I might put it on your radar just in case. Feel free to ignore the post since you weren't looking for suggestions either, haha ✌️
Fedora (and many distributions) include most Noto font families. This is great -- full Unicode support is important. It's less great when displayed in a font chooser dialogue. The standard GTK Font Chooser is filled with dozens of (superficially) repetitive entries.
I'm wondering where one would file a bug to open discussion on possible solutions.
Fonts in CSS: Reviewing an upcoming O’Reilly book, I ran again into the idea that font family names were case-sensitive.
I recall that the spec (at some point?) said so, but in practice, user agents have always—and I think without exception—treated font names case-insensitively.
What fuels this myth (at least from a support perspective)? My hunch is that it may not be many who say so, but those are popular?