A monospace that looks like a proportional « Canonical Design. To join the Ubuntu Monospace beta and give feedback, apply to the ubuntu-typeface-interest team on Launchpad and follow the PPA instructions after being accepted. Timeline Hardly a day has gone by in the last six-months without the design team being asking when the Ubuntu Mono monospace is going to be available. Like all of the work on the Ubuntu Font Family, the monospace has been working its way through the phased testing process, gradually being made available to more users, as issues are improved and developed. It’s now at the state where it’s ready to share with the early-access beta team. Depending on how many issues are found it can then proceed to being released via font.ubuntu.com and then finally into a future version of the Ubuntu operating system. Development on the Ubuntu Mono started back in August/September 2010 with Amélie Bonet at Dalton Maag taking the lead. The Ubuntu Mono consists of four fonts: regular, bold, italic and bold-italic.
What took so long? Where we are now.
Emacs. Tweak your typeface, save money on toner - Last year, printer comparison website Printer.com did an experiment to determine if choosing a different default typeface could help cut printing costs. After testing several common fonts available for Microsoft Office, the site determined that Century Gothic actually saved the most ink or toner, enough to save a significant amount of money even in light use cases.
The savings were enough to convince the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay to switch to Century Gothic for the bulk of its printing needs. The school's IT department has asked staff and faculty to use Century Gothic whenever possible for printed documents. It is also setting up the e-mail system and computer labs to use Century Gothic as the default font. "The feedback we've gotten so far has been positive," Diane Blohowiak, coordinator of information-technology user support, told the Associated Press.
"Century Gothic is very readable. " 42 Amazing Resources for Inspirational Typography : Speckyboy Design Magazine. There are many theories to what constitutes good typography, its not as simple as choosing an appropriate font and setting it in the style of a particular project, that would be too easy. Theories and tutorials are one thing, putting typography into perfect practice is another, and is perhaps the hardest part of any design. Every designer you ask will give you a different answer to what constitutes good type, where is the benchmark? Below you will find the best typography sites, rich full of inspiration, tutorials, theories, free fonts, good practices… everything you could possibly need related to typography.
Typographica Typographica is a review of typefaces and type books, with occasional commentary on fonts and typographic design. We Love Typography We Love Typography is an image, video, & text ‘bookmarking’ site that is wholly dedicated to type-related content. Typophile Upscale Typography Type for you A great blog rich full of type news, interviews, inspiration and free resources.
TypeNeu. More Monospaced Type Goodness: Ten Free Fonts. Last summer, Craig wrote a post on the best monospaced fonts for programmers. Monospaced fonts are not just for developers, designers can have fun with them, too. So today, as it’s Font Friday, we have another handpicked selection of fonts for your designing pleasure. But first, if you’re new to typography here’s a brief explanation of what distinguishes this type category from others.
A monospaced or fixed-width font is a font, where each letter occupies the same amount of space. These fonts were originally designed for typewriters and have quite a distinct look about them. So let’s get on with it, here’s a bunch of good-looking monospaced fonts that are free to download. Chica Modern Future Fixed-Width by W.S.I. Monofur by Tobias B. Unispace by Ray Larabie B.P. Newport Gothic by Roger White Monospace Typewriter by Manfred Klein Fonteria Fonts Andale Mono by Microsoft Anonymous by Mark Simonson Onuava by The Scriptorium What other monospaced fonts would you recommend? Codeblog » search for a crisp monospace true-type font. Web font services join fray as .webfont format gains support - Ars Technica.
Improvements to CSS3, in particular a revival of the @font-face directive for linking to server-based fonts, promise to allow designers to deliver richer and more nuanced typography on the Web. And while Firefox and Safari (via WebKit) are leading the way by supporting standard TrueType and OpenType font files, posting commercial fonts on a publicly available Web server violates the licensing agreements from most type foundries.
So, at least three services are close to launching, giving Web designers and developers access to licensed typefaces that will work with @font-face. And even while several foundries are looking to license their fonts for these services, several prominent foundries have expressed support for the .webfont format that is being proposed to the W3C. Why bother? What's with all the hubbub about Web fonts anyway? "The answer is contained in two words," designer Richard Rutter told Ars. Today: TypeKit, Fontdeck, and Typotheque's web font service Further reading: FontFonter: Test Web Fonts on Any Website.
300+ Easily Installed Free Fonts for Ubuntu. Posted by Carthik in applications, gnome, looks and feel, packages, ubuntu. Trackback Ubuntu offers a lot of fonts, in addition to the defaults installed, and the MicroSoft msttcorefonts package, in its repositories. All these fonts mentioned here are provided as packages, which can easily installed using command line tools like apt-get or using Synaptic. These fonts will come in handy for designing flyers, or for designing headers and graphics for the web using the Gimp. Also, some of these fonts are pretty commonly used to render pages, like Lucida. I will save the packages with the biggest collection of fonts for the end here. Since I have included screenshots of most of the fonts, and this article is sorta long, please read on by clicking the “More” link below. Gentium This is one of my favorite fonts.
The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive. Fonts from Dustismo These designer fonts were designed by Dustin Norlander of Dustismo. Summary.