- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 02:24:07 +0200 (MET)
- To: Gayle Kidder <reddik@sandiego.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Jul 4, 11:25am, Gayle Kidder wrote: > You can see it all on this demo page: > http://www.beachmedia.com/www/families.html > (Set your default font preference to something ridiculous, like Ransom > Paste or Old English and the failures will stand out easily.) Thanks. Here are some screenshots on NS4.01b6 (SGI) http://www.w3.org/people/chris/Style/ns401b6-genericfont.jpg and NS4.01 (Mac) http://www.w3.org/people/chris/Style/ns401mac-genericfont.jpg The JPEG compression messes up the finer detail of the fonts but it's enough to see what happens. > In a techno-philosophical sense, I'd like to know what exactly fonts > "know" about themselves. Are (or should) digital font descriptions be > written in such a way as to include the generic family? They can contain information of this sort, depending on the font format. There is a bunch of this stuff in Panose, for example, which can be made available in the OS/2 table. > Should they also > know what more general family style (like Old Style or Classic) that > they belong to? There are some tables in truetype which say that a particular font has, say, Clarendon serifs. Again it depends on the format and it depends on what information the font designer chooses to include. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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