I've been hunting for this specific typeface/font for ages, but can never find it. It was used for cinema light box/marquees in the UK in the 1960s-1980s. It's close to some of the usual suspects (Gill Sans, Human521, Futura, DIN, Century, etc ), but no cigar. Any ideas?
I wish Justin of starwarsfonts was here on the fediverse, because I have a question!!
Any idea what the font used in the text graphics is here? It’s driving my wife crazy; she thinks it might be Albertus Nova, but we aren’t sure—and something just looks… wrong with the text.
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).
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.