From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: OT: looking for a "soviet" font
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:45:32 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1118C3D7-3479-4429-9BBB-1B0C1F83DBAF@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140415191541.120c3b00@Klapprechner1.site>
Am 2014-04-15 um 23:15 schrieb Joshua Krämer <joshua.kraemer@gmail.com>:
> The most used Soviet typeface is Literaturnaya. You can find it here
> for example:
>
> http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/paratype/literaturnaya/
>
> There is also a free digital version available. (I think you can find
> it on the CTAN). But all digital versions I know of are not really
> well-suited for body text (they are quite thin, obviously based on a
> display size of the original typeface).
>
> A derived typeface which is a bit better for text is Quant Antiqua:
>
> http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/paratype/quant-antiqua/
>
> While Literaturnaya/Quant are surely the best matches for Soviet
> typography in general, they may not be the best match for Soviet
> modernism. Maybe Baltica could fit better:
>
> http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/paratype/baltica/
>
> Generally, I suggest to search through the ParaType offerings. They
> have many nice typefaces, which are not expensive.
Thank you very much!
On TeX-D-L Ulrich Dirr suggested Academy, Baltica, Literaturnaya, Journal/Sans or Ladoga, all from Paratype.
Unfortunately Ladoga and Quant lack the Kyrgyz and Kasakh glyphs that I need. (They have special characters for „German umlaut sounds“ ü and ö, as well as ng).
I don’t think Baltica is very legible, even if it fits the style.
Literaturnaya seems a bit too light, but as „favourite text face of Soviet typography“ it surely fits the bill.
I’ll probably go for Journal+Sans, but I didn’t scan the whole Paratype library yet.
Greetlings, Hraban
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-15 5:37 Henning Hraban Ramm
2014-04-15 17:15 ` Joshua Krämer
2014-04-15 17:24 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2014-04-16 3:45 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2014-04-16 4:22 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2014-04-17 3:53 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2014-04-17 19:42 ` Joshua Krämer
2014-04-18 16:12 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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