i am fascinated by this typeface history. as it turns out, Gerald Giampa was the owner of the LTC Spire typeface when it was licensed for use in the GeoWorks operating environment.
i had no idea that he was canadian, and moved his foundry to Prince Edward Island before it was destroyed in a tidal wave. P22 bought his font faces, and designed this absolutely gorgeous traditional web site called The Giampa Tour. it disappeared from the web over 10 years ago, and this is probably the first time it has been seen in a decade. it's full of incredibly nerdy typeface history, including some fantastic rants on how shitty Adobe was to deal with, even back in the late 1980s. 😆
this is what the world wide web was made for, and i'm so glad WBM managed to preserve a working copy, as P22 has been out of business for many years - and its website gone with it.
i've rebuilt the entire site using the WBM's snapshot for public viewing here, where it will remain as an online museum and tribute to Gerald Giampa's incredible work:
For A Project™, I need to learn about the historical origins of #bitmap#fonts. Highly doubt these were first created on computers; where in the world have rectangular #tiles or #bricks carried a textual message? (The tiled signs in the #NYC subway are #mosaics, not based on a grid.) Where did bitmap fonts really start?
Getting Greek characters to display properly in a PDF generated from Markdown with Pandoc has caused some frustration today - here's what eventually worked for me:
Use xelatex instead of pdflatex:
pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex
Use Linux Liberatine O as the font in your Markdown metadata:
mainfont: "Linux Libertine O"
I'm a bit sad that I can't use Palatino, which I think is a nicer font, but Linux Libertine 'just worked' and is free (as in beer and speech).
@penguin42 I don't think so - the problem isn't that the characters don't look right, but that xelatex (and pdflatex) won't even compile because they don't recognise Περικλῆς.
@drj Thanks. I think I might need to do some work to get it looking right in LaTeX (some words are really off, like 'introduction') but the Greek rendering is nicer than Linux Libertine.
So this is the Berkeley Mono font from https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/ (Yeah I paid for a copy) but I tweaked three glyphs (l, i & r) for my editor. Wonder if they'd be open to alternates...
Enjoying it so far will see how it stacks compared to JetBrains Mono and Input Mono which I go back and forth between in Rider.
Envy Code R is still, of course, my terminal font.
Je vais te dire... je bosse pour de l'édition papier et numérique.
Je suis toujours étonné, alors que je suis 70% graphiste et 30% dev, d'avoir une tétrachiée de fonts installées sur mon système... de recevoir des projets pour lesquels je dois demander "J'ai pas la font machin... elle n'est pas libre... tu peux me la filer steup ?"
Y'a pas assez de fonts libres ?
Les maquettistes ne savent pas que ça existe le fonts libres ?
@matthieu Oui, en général ce sont des fonts pour des titres ou des stickers commerciaux, des disclaimers etc...
Je ne touche que très rarement aux textes, je suis plus coté graphisme, donc packaging, que typographie... alors que je suis un maniaque de la typo et une brelle en orthpgraphe/grammaire ;D
I have tried so many #monospaced#fonts, but I keep coming back to #Inconsolata as pleasant and readable. Latest I tried was the #Monaspace family, but the block "@" sign did them in for me. (Really interesting otherwise though!)