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Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis

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Post by dsr_ » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 11:33 PM UTC

edent wrote: post #5

That's wonderful! Does anyone know the best way to convert an old printed manuscript into a font file?

Get the highest resolution scan that you can manage. Break it into glyphs. Select your representative glyphs.

Become frustrated that in eighteen pages, there are no examples of [#%|\=÷×{}!*/] or a capital X or Z or five digits. Find substitutes.

Use FontForge. Read the whole FAQ.

Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis

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Post by russfink » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 11:34 PM UTC

TL;DR - where can i get the font files?

Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis

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Post by i-use-nixos-btw » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 12:02 AM UTC

juujian wrote: post #8

twic wrote: post #4

When I was trying to avoid writing my thesis I just played video games

It's amazing what kind of epic projects a thesis can motivate you to take on (rather than your thesis).

I balanced a consulting job and my PhD, so thesis time was incredibly productive. When I didn’t want to do one, I’d become very productive on the other, and when I got tired of that, I’d switch and get very productive again.

Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis

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Post by thedailymail » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 12:06 AM UTC

gerikson wrote: post #2

This is a typeface I'd be prepared to enable Google Fonts to use...

Links for OpenType and TrueType downloads at the bottom of this page: https://iginomarini.com/fell/the-revival-fonts/

Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis

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Post by thedailymail » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 12:07 AM UTC

russfink wrote: post #12

TL;DR - where can i get the font files?

https://iginomarini.com/fell/the-revival-fonts/

Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis

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Post by phlakaton » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 12:16 AM UTC

Sure enough, if you go from the end of the blog post straight to the thesis, you can totally hear the introduction of Also Sprach Zarathustra coming out of the title page.

Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis

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Post by sdfsdfdsfsf » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 12:30 AM UTC

The quote marks on that page are a real mess. Best practice is to use double curly quotes or single curly quotes—not backtick and apostrophe.

See https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html ("Summary: Please do not use the ASCII grave accent (0x60) as a left quotation mark together with the ASCII apostrophe (0x27) as the corresponding right quotation mark (as in `quote').")

Also, Founder's Caslon is commercially available, at least, it is now. https://www.myfonts.com/collections/founders-caslon-font-itc

Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis

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Post by cratermoon » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 12:31 AM UTC

gerikson wrote: post #2

This is a typeface I'd be prepared to enable Google Fonts to use...

https://fonts.google.com/?query=Igino+Marini

Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis

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Post by cratermoon » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 12:32 AM UTC

russfink wrote: post #12

TL;DR - where can i get the font files?

Also https://fonts.google.com/?query=Igino+Marini

Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis

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Post by causality0 » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 12:46 AM UTC

Sadly it is no longer commercially available after he died of a heart attack at the age of 41 in 2005

If it's an exacting replica of a preexisting typeface it shouldn't be covered under copyright and thus you should be able to freely share it.