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Jomolhari (typeface)
Jomolhari is a Tibetan script Uchen script, Uchen font created by Christopher J. Fynn, freely available under the SIL Open Font License, Open Font License. It supports text encoded using the Unicode Standard and the Chinese national standard for encoding characters of the Tibetan script (GB/T20524-2006 "Tibetan Coded Character Set"). The design of the font is based on Bhutanese manuscript examples and it is suitable for text in Tibetan script, Tibetan, Dzongkha and other languages written in the Tibetan script. In Latin script, Latin, it is metrically compatible with Times New Roman. Format and License The Jomolhari font is available in OpenType format using TrueType outlines. It is distributed under the terms of the SIL Open Font License. It may be downloaded from Google Fonts, thFree Tibetan Fonts Projecton the GNU Savannah, Savannah site and several other places. The Visual OpenType Layout Tool, VOLT project files containing the source of the OpenType lookups in the font are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serif
In typography, a serif () is a small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol within a particular font or family of fonts. A typeface or "font family" making use of serifs is called a serif typeface (or serifed typeface), and a typeface that does not include them is sans-serif. Some typography sources refer to sans-serif typefaces as "grotesque" (in German, ) or "Gothic", and serif typefaces as "roman". Origins and etymology Serifs originated from the first official Greek writings on stone and in Latin alphabet with inscriptional lettering—words carved into stone in Roman antiquity. The explanation proposed by Father Edward Catich in his 1968 book ''The Origin of the Serif'' is now broadly but not universally accepted: the Roman letter outlines were first painted onto stone, and the stone carvers followed the brush marks, which flared at stroke ends and corners, creating serifs. Another theory is that serifs were devised to neate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |