Member Chr… Posted February 26, 2011 Author Share Posted February 26, 2011 Without looking, I think yes. However, seizures ≠ driving, so I’m probably the least informed person to ask. I’ll start looking tomorrow though, and probably for the rest of my life now. Thanks for that. Link to comment
Member Max… Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 I’m particularly fond of monospaced fonts that have dots or slashes on the zero’s so they can't be confused with capital O’s. Without looking, how many can you name? Without looking I can name one, Consolas. Link to comment
Member Bir… Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Er, my last link was a joke, sorry about that, I spent ages looking for a monospaced font in the "Modern" category with Didones and stuff. (Might be a space in the market there!) Fixedsys (and I guess Excelcior) has a 0 with a clear distinction from the O, though it's done with little inside curves rather than lines or dots. Also, the 1, I, l distinction is an important one for programmers. Here's a Swedish vanity licence plate with a non-monospaced font, so at least it's not universal: Link to comment
Member Té… Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Right off the top of my head I can recall dotted and slashed variants of Droid Sans Mono. http://www.leewardpro.com/articles/licplatefonts/licplate-fonts-intro.html looks to me to be a good intro/reference to licence plate typography. Aside: Current Icelandic plates are made with what looks to me as Helvetica. As far as I can recall, the previous series was also stamped with a proportional font. In my memory, it was a DIN variant, but in RL it's not. Link to comment
Member Pie… Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Capibara Mono:http://www.boldmonday.com/en/capibara_overview Pieter Link to comment
Member thi… Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Don't forget about all those http://www.lineto.com monospaced beautys. I'd wager they have more monospaced than proportional fonts in their library. Link to comment
Member gar… Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 A few more I haven't seen mentioned... Orator - Adobe, 1987; John Scheppler, 1962Monaco - Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow, 1990; Susan Kare, 1983 (bitmap)TheSans Mono - Luc(as) de Groot, 1994TheMix Mono - Luc(as) de Groot, 1996Thordis Sans Mono - Carlo Krüger and Günther Flake, 1997OCRJ and OCRK - Joe Kral, 1998Lucida Mono - Kris Holmes, 1998Quadraat Sans Mono - Fred Smeijers, 2000Fago Monospaced - Ole Schäfer, 2000Eureka Mono - Peter Biľak, 2001Fedra Mono - Peter Biľak, 2002PTL Manual Mono - Ole Schäfer, 2002Nexus Typewriter - Martin Majoor, 2004Linefeed - Ray Larabie, 2005Ascender Sans Mono - Steve Matteson, 2005Botanika Mono - Tomáš Brousil, 2007OliveGreen Mono - Georg Seifert, 2007 Link to comment
Member but… Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 FB Aix has a slashed zero as an OT alternate (IIRC there's a special substitution tag for that). It's a slightly trickier problem than one might suspect — adding the slash or dot starts to make the zero look like the figure eight at small sizes. I developed a set of alternates for Alix optimized for programming, but they didn't make it into the retail release. Link to comment
Member sgh… Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 @butterick FB Alix looks very nice! What sort of alternates did you develop for programming? Was it just for the 0? I'm curious what you did. Best wishes, Stephen Link to comment
Member but… Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 What sort of alternates did you develop for programming? The zero, one, and lowercase L are different. I also changed the color & alignment of a few other characters to improve their appearance at small sizes, and make them relate to each other according to their programming meaning. Note that other than the slashed zero, these characters are NOT available in the retail version of FB Alix. Link to comment
Member Té… Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Before I forget it yet again... Ray Larabie has made a few monospaced fonts, notably Larabiefont, Minisystems and Monofonto, all from ca. 2000. David F. Nalle made Onuava ca. 1998. Link to comment
Member sgh… Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 @butterick AlixCode is really nice---those are thoughtful changes for programming. It's too bad that it's not currently released. Do you think that will change in the future? Thanks for sharing! Stephen Link to comment
Member but… Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Do you think that will change in the future? As with most things in type, it will depend on 1) sales, 2) public outcry, and 3) sales. Link to comment
Member typ… Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 MitigatePRINTFLinefeedTelidonChainprinterCinecav X Mono Link to comment
Member zon… Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Hello, there has been a Univers Monospace version used for binary data-treatment within the 1972 Olympics. I don't know who made it. Maybe some engineer… But it's looking quite good. More information here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tll5Q-Rkilw I'm just working on abook about the itemhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI-uZnXRQs4 Link to comment
Member Chr… Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 Absolutely fantastic links. I look forward to your results. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 > I don't know who made it. Maybe Aicher? hhp Link to comment
Member zon… Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 It's possible that he has been involved but it's not mentioned anywhere. The only sure thing is the use of the font in this context. I will check the Siemens people. Thanks for the positive response… Link to comment
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