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Next version of the key:

Version: 1.3

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  Fonts:
    S        Short form of the adjective Semi- (or Demi-)
    U        Short form of the adjective Ultra-
    X        Short form of the adjective Extra-

    Hr       Hair-thin weight
    UL       Ultra-light weight
    XL       Extra-light weight
    Lt       Light weight       (L with adjective)
    Th       Thin weight        (T with adjective)
    Rg       Regular weight
    Bk       Book weight
    Md       Medium weight
    SB       Semi-bold (demi-bold) weight
    Bd       Bold weight        (B with adjective)
    XB       Extra-bold weight
    UB       Ultra-bold weight
    Hv       Heavy weight
    Bl       Black weight

    I        Italic style
    O        Oblique style

    Comp     Compressed width
    Cond     Condensed width
    SCond    Semi-Condensed width
    Narr     Narrow width
    Norm     Normal width
    SExpd    Semi-Expanded width
    Expd     Expanded width

  Format:
    ADF      Apple Distortable Font (TTF with some multi-master features)
    EOT      Embedded OpenType (Microsoft's web font format)
    FON      Windows bitmap font
    MF       D. Knuth's Metafont
    T1       PostScript Type 1 (ATM font)
    T1MM     PostScript Type 1 Multi-Master font
    OTF      CFF-flavoured OpenType
    SVG      Scalable Vector Graphics (useable as a font format as well)
    TTC      TrueType Collection (a TTF library format)
    TTF      TrueType or TT-flavoured OpenType
    WOFF     Web Open Font Format (web-only font format)
    IK       Work file format used by Ikarus and DTL
    SFD      Work file format used by FontForge
    SFDir    Work directory format used by FontForge
    UFO      Work directory format used by RoboFont and others
    VFB      Work file format used by Fontlab

  Licensing:
    AFPL     The Aladdin Free Public License (Aladdin GhostScript)
    Apache   The Apache License
    BSDL     The BSD License, any version
    GPL      The Free Software Foundation's General Public License
    GPL2+    Ditto, version 2 or later
    LPPL     The LaTeX Project Public License
    MITL     The MIT License
    OFL      SIL's Open Font License
    Utopia   Adobe's and TUG's collective Utopia licensing
    Vera     Bitstream's licence for the typeface Bitstream Vera

AIM listing, first version:

Version: 1.0

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Typeface:    Cankama
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     1.20
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: English blackletter, like Cloister Black

Typeface:    Carita
Fonts:       2: Rg/Bd
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     2.10
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Caps/smallcaps (Carolus)

Typeface:    Garava
Fonts:       5: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI/Hv
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     2.60
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Serif, feels Goudy-ish

Typeface:    Guru
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     2.61
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Serif, Garamond-style

Typeface:    Hattha
Fonts:       3: Rg/RgI/Bd
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     1.20
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Blockwriting, nicer than Comic Sans

Typeface:    Kabala
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     2.40
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Geometric sans-serif, Kabel-style

Typeface:    Lekhana
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     1.40
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Script, closest to Zapf Calligraphic

Typeface:    Mandala
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     1.31
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Geometric sans-serif, kin to Bauhaus

Typeface:    Odana
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     2.20
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Heavy pen-script (Bodacious/Calligrapher)

Typeface:    Pali
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     1.71
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Serif, B.P.'s version of Palatino

Typeface:    Talapanna
Fonts:       2: Rg/Bd
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     2.41
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Serif, B.P.'s version of Goudy Bertham

Typeface:    Veluvana
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     2.31
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Wedge- or leaf-like display face

Typeface:    Verajja
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     3.10
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Vera
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Sans-serif, Bitstream Vera

Typeface:    Verajja Serif
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     1.20
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Vera
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Slab-serif, Bitstream Vera Serif

Typeface:    VerajjaPDA
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     Association for Insight Meditation
Home:        http://www.softerviews.org/
Version:     2.70
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Vera
Designer:    Bhikkhu Pesala
Description: Sans-serif, cut-down Verajja

Crud Factory listing, first version:

Version: 1.0

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Typeface:    Bonveno CF
Fonts:       1: Lt
Foundry:     The Crud Factory
Home:        http://crudfactory.com/
Version:     1.1.2
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   MITL
Designer:    Barry Schwartz
Description: Geometric sans-serif

Typeface:    Fanwood
Fonts:       2: Rg/RgI
Foundry:     The Crud Factory
Home:        http://crudfactory.com/
Version:     1.1
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   MITL
Designer:    Barry Schwartz
Description: Serif, based on Fairfield

Typeface:    Fanwood Text
Fonts:       2: Rg/RgI
Foundry:     The Crud Factory
Home:        http://crudfactory.com/
Version:     1.1
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   MITL
Designer:    Barry Schwartz
Description: A text cut of Fanwood

Typeface:    Goudy Bookletter 1911
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     The Crud Factory
Home:        http://crudfactory.com/
Version:     2010.07.03
Format:      OTF,TTF
Licensing:   PD/WTFPL
Designer:    Barry Schwartz
Description: Serif, based on Kennerley Old Style

Typeface:    Juvelo
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     The Crud Factory
Home:        http://crudfactory.com/
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   PD/WTFPL
Designer:    Barry Schwartz
Description: Slab-serif, inspired by Diethelm-Antiqua

Typeface:    Linden Hill
Fonts:       2: Rg/RgI
Foundry:     The Crud Factory
Home:        http://crudfactory.com/
Version:     1.2
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   MITL
Designer:    Barry Schwartz
Description: Serif, based on Goudy's Deepdene

Typeface:    Prociono
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     The Crud Factory
Home:        http://crudfactory.com/
Version:     2.3
Format:      OTF,TTF
Licensing:   PD/WTFPL
Designer:    Barry Schwartz
Description: Serif, hints of Leipziger Antiqua

Typeface:    Prociono CF
Fonts:       2: Rg and Rg with more default ligatures
Foundry:     The Crud Factory
Home:        http://chemoelectric.deviantart.com/
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   GPL
Designer:    Barry Schwartz
Description: Older, wider-spaced, version of Prociono

Typeface:    Sorts Mill Goudy
Fonts:       2: Rg/RgI
Foundry:     The Crud Factory
Home:        http://crudfactory.com/
Version:     3.1
Format:      OTF,TTF
Licensing:   MITL
Designer:    Barry Schwartz
Description: Serif, based on Goudy Old Style

Typeface:    Sorts Mill Jannon
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     The Crud Factory
Home:        http://chemoelectric.deviantart.com/
Version:     0.1
Format:      OTF,TTF
Licensing:   MITL
Designer:    Barry Schwartz
Description: Serif, based on Goudy's Garamont

Typeface:    Sorts Mill Kis
Fonts:       2: Rg/RgI
Foundry:     The Crud Factory
Home:        http://chemoelectric.deviantart.com/
Version:     0.1
Format:      OTF,TTF
Licensing:   MITL
Designer:    Barry Schwartz
Description: Serif, book face in Janson/Kis style (WIP)
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hrant

hrant

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Look at that "rt". :-/

If you put monkeys on a font editor long enough you will end up with a properly spaced font. Clearly in this case the monkeys were simply not given enough time.

hhp

Té Rowan

Té Rowan

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Typeface:    Capitalis Minimalis
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.2
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Poor man's Capitalis Monumentalis

Typeface:    Fabrik
Fonts:       8: Rg/RgI/SB/Bd/Bl, Cond(Rg/Bd), Footnote
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.3
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Coarse, unrefined, geometric sans-serif

Typeface:    Grabstein Grotesk
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.1
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Narrow, squarish sans-serif, based on headstone inscriptions

Typeface:    Jakob
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd, Smallcaps
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.8
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Geometric sans-serif for signs, inspired by Erbar Grotesk

Typeface:    Mops Antiqua
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.2
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Serif, similar to Meeks's Chesterfield Antique

Typeface:    Plakative Grotesk
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.6
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Sans-serif in light Inserat style

Typeface:    Saarland
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.3
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Sans-serif, init. based on 1930s' propaganda type

Typeface:    Schilder Grotesk
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.1
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Squarish sans-serif, based on old Karlsruhe street signage

Typeface:    St32k
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.2
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Heavier St37k, works as smallcaps with same

Typeface:    St37k
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.5
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: All-caps, display, based on R. Koch's Stahl

Typeface:    Tattoo U
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.0
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: All-upper display face with loops
Renaissance Man

Renaissance Man

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Public Service:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&depth=1&hl=en...

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Using Jakob as an example:

"The fonts (without source code) are also on abstractfonts.com from: http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/15019"

Jakob: "ChangeLog 17.12.2010 Version 1.8 added [T|t]horn, Section, ... Kernig [sic] and width adjusted!"
I found no NO kerning.

I found NO otf fonts, and T1 fonts have only afm and pfb files but no pfm files.

Té Rowan

Té Rowan

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1. One risks discrepancies when working off-line with other folks' data, especially when one should be sleeping.

2. FontForge defaults to Unix conventions for T1 fonts: AFM/PFA or AFM/PFB. AFM-to-PFM conversion utilities exist.

@Pablo – As much as it sounds like kvetching, much of it was information I needed. I found I was two subversions behind on Fabrik, for fanen!

Edit 1:

The Fabrik TTFs I have (from a fresh download) have 570–571 kerning pairs, according to my .fea (OpenType feature file) dumps. Their instructing, however, is very limited.

Next iteration of the TypoShop ubs list:

Version: 1.1

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Typeface:    Capitalis Minimalis
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.2
Format:      T1,TTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Poor man's Capitalis Monumentalis

Typeface:    Fabrik
Fonts:       7: Rg/RgI/Bd/Bl, Cond(Rg/Bd), Footnote
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.5
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Coarse, unrefined, geometric sans-serif

Typeface:    Grabstein Grotesk
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.1
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Narrow, squarish sans-serif, based on headstone inscriptions

Typeface:    Jakob
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd, Smallcaps
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.8
Format:      T1,TTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Geometric sans-serif for signs, inspired by Erbar Grotesk

Typeface:    Mops Antiqua
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.2
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Serif, similar to Meeks's Chesterfield Antique

Typeface:    Plakative Grotesk
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.6
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Sans-serif in light Inserat style

Typeface:    Saarland
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.3
Format:      T1,TTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Sans-serif, init. based on 1930s' propaganda type

Typeface:    Schilder Grotesk
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.1
Format:      T1,TTF,OTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Squarish sans-serif, based on old Karlsruhe street signage

Typeface:    St32k
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.2
Format:      T1,TTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: Heavier St37k, works as smallcaps with same

Typeface:    St37k
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.5
Format:      T1,TTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: All-caps, display, based on R. Koch's Stahl

Typeface:    Tattoo U
Fonts:       1: Md
Foundry:     TypoShop ubs
Home:        http://uwes.suche-plus.de/
Version:     1.0
Format:      T1,TTF,SFD
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Uwe Borchert
Description: All-upper display face with loops
Té Rowan

Té Rowan

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First revision of the Fell Types list:

Version: 1.0

Peculiarities:

OTF and TTF may both be installed at the same time due to slight naming differences

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Typeface:    IM Fell Double Pica
Fonts:       3 (TTF), 2 (OTF): Rg/RgI, separate smallcaps in TTF
Foundry:     Igino Marini
Home:        http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/
Version:     3.00
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Peter de Walpergen
Description: 21-pt headline face

Typeface:    IM Fell DW Pica
Fonts:       3 (TTF), 2 (OTF): Rg/RgI, separate smallcaps in TTF
Foundry:     Igino Marini
Home:        http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/
Version:     3.00
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Peter de Walpergen
Description: 12.5-pt text face

Typeface:    IM Fell English
Fonts:       3 (TTF), 2 (OTF): Rg/RgI, separate smallcaps in TTF
Foundry:     Igino Marini
Home:        http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/
Version:     3.00
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Roman, small-caps: Christoffel van Dijck (?), Italic: Robert Granjon (?)
Description: 13.5-pt text face

Typeface:    IM Fell French Canon
Fonts:       3 (TTF), 2 (OTF): Rg/RgI, separate smallcaps in TTF
Foundry:     Igino Marini
Home:        http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/
Version:     3.00
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Peter de Walpergen
Description: 39-pt display face

Typeface:    IM Fell Flowers 1
Fonts:       1
Foundry:     Igino Marini
Home:        http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/
Version:     3.00
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    R. Granjon
Description: 25-pt flower borders

Typeface:    IM Fell Flowers 2
Fonts:       1
Foundry:     Igino Marini
Home:        http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/
Version:     3.00
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    R. Granjon
Description: 17.5-pt flowers and ornaments

Typeface:    IM Fell Great Primer
Fonts:       3 (TTF), 2 (OTF): Rg/RgI, separate smallcaps in TTF
Foundry:     Igino Marini
Home:        http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/
Version:     3.00
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Peter de Walpergen
Description: 17-pt headline face

Typeface:    IM Fell Three Line Pica
Fonts:       1
Foundry:     Igino Marini
Home:        http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/
Version:     3.00
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Peter de Walpergen
Description: 48-pt majuscule-only display face
Thomas Phinney

Thomas Phinney

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> AFM-to-PFM conversion utilities exist

Yes, but they either require considerable human intervention, or they produce pretty lousy results. The AFM does not contain various Windows-specific info that goes into a PFM, such as menu names and style linking.

HVB

HVB

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re: PFB+AFM
Fonts distributed that way used to include an .INF file containing the menu names and style linking. Such distributions could be converted to PFM+PFB with the now absent Adobe Type Manager (ATM).

I know of no utility or simple method under current operating systems for the average consumer to do this? (I.e., someone without FontLab and technical knowledge of how to copy the .inf info into the font manually.

Hmm. I seem to remember a similar conversation with Tom 3-4 years ago in the Adobe typography forum … which is now effectively defunct.

- Herb

Té Rowan

Té Rowan

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Next iteration of the key:

Version: 1.4

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Legend:

  Fonts:
    S        Short form of the adjective Semi- (or Demi-)
    U        Short form of the adjective Ultra-
    X        Short form of the adjective Extra-

    Hr       Hair-thin weight
    UL       Ultra-light weight
    XL       Extra-light weight
    Lt       Light weight       (L with adjective)
    Th       Thin weight        (T with adjective)
    Rg       Regular weight
    Bk       Book weight
    Md       Medium weight
    SB       Semi-bold (demi-bold) weight
    Bd       Bold weight        (B with adjective)
    XB       Extra-bold weight
    UB       Ultra-bold weight
    Hv       Heavy weight
    Bl       Black weight

    I        Italic style
    O        Oblique style

    Comp     Compressed width
    Cond     Condensed width
    SCond    Semi-Condensed width
    Narr     Narrow width
    Norm     Normal width
    SExpd    Semi-Expanded width
    Expd     Expanded width

  Format:
    ADF      Apple Distortable Font (TTF with some multi-master features)
    EOT      Embedded OpenType (Microsoft's web font format)
    FON      Windows bitmap font
    MF       D. Knuth's Metafont
    T1       PostScript Type 1 (ATM font)
    T1MM     PostScript Type 1 Multi-Master font
    OTF      CFF-flavoured OpenType
    SVG      Scalable Vector Graphics (useable as a font format as well)
    TTC      TrueType Collection (a TTF library format)
    TTF      TrueType or TT-flavoured OpenType
    WOFF     Web Open Font Format (web-only font format)
    IK       Work file format used by Ikarus and DTL
    SFD      Work file format used by FontForge
    SFDir    Work directory format used by FontForge
    UFO      Work directory format used by RoboFont and others
    VFB      Work file format used by Fontlab

  Licensing:
    AFPL     The Aladdin Free Public License (Aladdin GhostScript)
    Apache   The Apache License
    BSDL     The BSD License, any version
    GPL      The Free Software Foundation's General Public License
    GPL2+    Ditto, version 2 or later
    GUST     The Polish TeX Users Group licence; Polish LPPL
    LPPL     The LaTeX Project Public License
    MITL     The MIT License
    OFL      SIL's Open Font License
    Utopia   Adobe's and TUG's collective Utopia licensing
    Vera     Bitstream's licence for the typeface Bitstream Vera
Té Rowan

Té Rowan

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First iteration of Greek Font Society list:

Version: 1.0

Peculiarities:
 1. Licensing does not always match between OTF and TTF versions.
 2. Many faces lack Latin characters.

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Typeface:    GFS Ambrosia
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Majuscule-only, early Christian style

Typeface:    GFS Artemisia
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL (OTF), freeware (TTF)
Designer:    Takis Katsoulidis, George Matthiopoulos
Description: A very Greek Times

Typeface:    GFS Baskerville
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Sophia Kalaitzidou, George Matthiopoulos
Description: Greek Baskerville

Typeface:    GFS Bodoni
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL (OTF), freeware (TTF)
Designer:    Takis Katsoulidis, George Matthiopoulos
Description: What new can be said about a Bodoni?

Typeface:    GFS Bodoni Classic
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     ?
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Greek Bodoni

Typeface:    GFS Complutum
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.000
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Based on de Brocar's type for the Complutensian Bible

Typeface:    GFS Decker
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.000
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Uncial, resembles a humanist sans-serif

Typeface:    GFS Didot
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Takis Katsoulidis, George Matthiopoulos
Description: Latin chars based on Palatino

Typeface:    GFS Didot Classic
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Firmin Didot
Description: Greek didone

Typeface:    GFS Elpis
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Natasha Raissaki
Description: Recent serif, attempts to harmonise Greek and Latin

Typeface:    GFS Eustace
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Majuscule-only, Byzantine woodcut style

Typeface:    GFS Fleischman
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Majuscule-only, recut of J.M. Fleischman's mid-18th century cut

Typeface:    GFS Garaldus
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Majuscule-only garalde

Typeface:    GFS Gazis
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: 1790s German style

Typeface:    GFS Goschen
Fonts:       1: RgI
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     ?
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Recut of G.J. Göschen's cursive face

Typeface:    GFS Ignacio
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.000
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Majuscule-only

Typeface:    GFS Jackson
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Majuscule-only, recut of J. Jackson's design for Cambridge Uni.

Typeface:    GFS Neohellenic
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL (OTF), unknown (TTF)
Designer:    Takis Katsoulidis, George Matthiopoulos
Description: Based on Lanston Monotype's New Hellenic

Typeface:    GFS Nicefore
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Majuscule-only, 5th-7th century Byzantine style

Typeface:    GFS Olga
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Based on Porson, inclined companion to GFS Didot Classic

Typeface:    GFS Philostratos
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.000
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    Maurice Eduard Pinder
Description: Recut of Griechische Antiqua

Typeface:    GFS Porson
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      TTF,OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Based on Monotype's cut but with Porson's upright majuscules

Typeface:    GFS Pyrsos
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Heavily inclined,

Typeface:    GFS Solomos
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.000
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos
Description: Mid-19th century Greek Inclined

Typeface:    GFS Theokritos
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     Greek Font Society
Home:        http://www.greekfontsociety.gr
Version:     1.0
Format:      OTF
Licensing:   OFL
Designer:    George Matthiopoulos, Leoni Vidali
Description: Heavy, ornate, based on Yannis Kefallinos's work

First iteration of George Douros font list:

Version: 1.0

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Typeface:    Aegean
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     7.04
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Large collection of Aegean/Mediterranean scripts

Typeface:    Aegyptus
Fonts:       2: Rg, Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     4.01
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: A large set of hieroglyphs

Typeface:    Akkadian
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     7.04
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Various ancient scripts, lots of cuneiform

Typeface:    Alexander
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     3.01
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Alexander Wilson's Greek and Garamond-based Latin and Cyrillic

Typeface:    Alfios
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     1.01
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Didot's and Porson's minuscules, everything else new

Typeface:    Anaktoria
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     1.01
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Grecs du Roi Greek, Shakespeare First Folio Latin, all else new

Typeface:    Analecta
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     4.01
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Ecclesiastical scripts

Typeface:    Anatolian
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     4.01
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Anatolian hieroglyphs

Typeface:    Aroania
Fonts:       2: Rg/Bd
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     1.01
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Based on Scholderer/Monotype's New Hellenic

Typeface:    Asea
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     3.14
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Various ancient scripts

Typeface:    Atavyros
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     1.01
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Granjon's Parangonne Greque with Goudy Latin/Cyrillic

Typeface:    Avdira
Fonts:       4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     1.01
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Damilas's and Porson's Greek minuscules, all else new

Typeface:    Gardiner
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     4.01
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Alan Gardiner's hieroglyph set

Typeface:    Maya
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     1.06
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: J.E.S. Thompson's Mayan glyph catalogue fonted

Typeface:    Musica
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     3.06
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Basic Latin/Greek/Coptic, various music symbols

Typeface:    Symbola
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     7.06
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Symbold in Unicode et al...

Typeface:    Unidings
Fonts:       1: Rg
Foundry:     George Douros
Home:        http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/
Version:     7.04
Format:      TTF
Licensing:   Very permissive
Designer:    George Douros
Description: Glyphs and icons for Unicode Blocks...

First iteration of Janus Nowacki list:

Version: 1.0

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Typeface:    Antykwa Półtawskiego
Fonts:       20: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI in Cond/SCond/Norm/SExpd/Expd
Foundry:     Janusz Marian Nowacki
Home:        http://jmn.pl/en
Version:     1.101
Format:      TTF,OTF,TeX
Licensing:   GUST,LPPL
Designer:    Adam Półtawski
Description: Serif, bouncy design

Typeface:    Antykwa Toruńska
Fonts:       16: Lt/LtI/Rg/RgI/Md/MdI/Bd/BdI in Cond/Norm
Foundry:     Janusz Marian Nowacki
Home:        http://jmn.pl/en
Version:     2.08
Format:      TTF,OTF,TeX
Licensing:   GUST,LPPL
Designer:    Zygfryd Gardzielewski
Description: Serif with curvy diagonals

Typeface:    Cyklop
Fonts:       2: Rg/RgI
Foundry:     Janusz Marian Nowacki
Home:        http://jmn.pl/en
Version:     0.91
Format:      TTF,OTF,TeX
Licensing:   GUST,LPPL
Designer:    Odlewnia Czcionek J. Idzkowski i S-ka
Description: Very heavy, high-contrast face; half-disc tittles

Typeface:    Iwona
Fonts:       20: Lt/LtI/Rg/RgI/Md/MdI/Md/MdI/Hv/HvI in Cond/Norm
Foundry:     Janusz Marian Nowacki
Home:        http://jmn.pl/en
Version:     0.995
Format:      TTF,OTF,TeX
Licensing:   GUST,LPPL
Designer:    Janusz Nowacki
Description: Kurier without the ink traps

Typeface:    Kurier
Fonts:       20: Lt/LtI/Rg/RgI/Md/MdI/Md/MdI/Hv/HvI in Norm/Cond
Foundry:     Janusz Marian Nowacki
Home:        http://jmn.pl/en
Version:     0.995
Format:      TTF,OTF,TeX
Licensing:   GUST,LPPL
Designer:    Małgorzata Budyta
Description: Sans-serif, contrasty, humanist-style
Chris Dean

Chris Dean

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@Té: I can’t help but think what all your work would look like in a high-ceiling gallery printed out on a reeeally looong piece of old dot-matrix printer paper. Heck, have it printing while the gallery and it’s now a performance. Throw in a bit about your troubled childhood, feminist theory, public versus private space, being comfortable in your own skin, and use the phrase “in and of itself” a lot and you’ve got an MFA thesis. Possibly a Canada Council grant too.

You have single-handedly contributed far more to this thread then I thought possible from the entire community. Please keep it up. I am actively following (is that an oxy-moron?).

(you could also do it on the green striped paper and talk about the environment and sustainability. Tape the end of the long piece of printer paper to the beginning to form a giant loop and now you can talk about infinity &c.)

Té Rowan

Té Rowan

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Oh, heck, no! I'm not cataloguing that! :-)

@Chris – Were I not long since out of fanfold and both the Microline 80 and the QL not dead as a doornail, I might think of composing a bit of performance art.

altsan

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This is a slight divergence but still I think on-topic (and since I can't start new threads this is the best I can do)...

I've recently downloaded and am trying to classify the GhostPCL fonts which URW++ donated to Artifex software under the free Aladdin license. They don't seem to be as widely known or disseminated as the 35 "core GhostScript" fonts similar donated by URW++, but they provide open source implementations of some very nice faces. Mostly they seem designed to fill in some of the gaps in the PostScript v3 core set when taken together with the GhostScript fonts.

However, I'm having trouble clearly identifying one or two... and I'm not entirely clear on the distinction between some of them.

The name in "quotes" is the family name stored in the font file.

  • "A028" (this looks a lot like Albertus but I think it's slightly different... does anyone know for sure?)
  • "A030" and "NimbusSanL" both appear to be Helvetica clones, which seems oddly redundant. Is there a distinction that I'm missing?
  • "AntiqueOlive" (Antique Olive, obviously)
  • "ArtLinePrinter" (actually, this seems to be an original Aladdin Software creation, not URW's work at all)
  • "CenturySchL" (Century Schoolbook implementation)
  • "ClarendonURW" (Clarendon, only Bold Condensed weight included)
  • "Coronet" (Coronet)
  • "Dingbats" (Wingdings clone)
  • "GaramondNo8" (this is a rather nice Garamond, but I'm not sure if it's an original URW interpretation or not. At least, I can't perfectly match it up to one of the well-known Garamond designs that I've looked at.)
  • "LetterGothic" (Letter Gothic)
  • "Mauritius" (Mauritius)
  • "NimbusMonL" and "NimbusMono" are both included (both Courier clones). Again, what's the distinction?
  • "NimbusRomanNo4", "NimbusRomanNo9", and "NimbusRomNo9L" (three apparent Times New Roman clones. In fact, there are subtle differences between the three, but does anyone know what the justification for each one is?)
  • "NimbusSanLCond" (clone Helvetica Condensed or Helvetica Narrow... not totally certain which)
  • "StandardSymL" (Symbol)
  • "U001" (seems to be a Univers clone)
  • "U001Con" (similarly, a Univers Condensed clone)
  • "URWBookmanL" (Bookman)
  • "URWChanceryL" (Zapf Chancery)
  • "URWClassico" (Optima)
  • "URWGothicL" (Avant Garde Gothic)
  • "URWPalladioL" (Palatino)

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