Re: fourier

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

Am Freitag, 19.09.03, um 16:30 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Adam Lindsay:
> However, this list:
>     [Serif]
>     [SerifSlanted]
>     [SerifItalic]
>     [SerifCaps]
>     [SerifSemiBold]
>     [SerifSemiSlanted]
>     [SerifSemiItalic]
>     [SerifSemiCaps]    %[SerifCapsSemi] ??
>     [SerifBold]
>     [SerifBoldSlanted]
>     [SerifBoldItalic]  %[SerifCapsBold] ??
>     [SerifBlack]

And BlackItalic etc. and the same for Light.
If you look at families like Univers or Neue Helvetica, there are:
UltraLight/ExtraLight Thin Light Regular Medium Bold Heavy Black 
UltraBlack
the same for condensed and expanded, and everytime with an oblique face.

> It's tough: you can easily come up with 100+ styles for a single font,
> very legitimately, which suggests that perhaps a stricter
> parameterisation could be useful:
>   3 upright vs italic vs slanted (+ upright italic?)

and sometimes backward slanted

>   4 or 5 weights
>   2 roman vs caps (or oldstyle, other variants)
> x 4 optical sizes
> ---
>  96+ variations

plus Alternates plus Swash plus Outline plus...
it never ends ;-)

Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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