Talk:Computer font

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On the typeface talk page, several people complained about how computer font should be a separate article. Now it is. Edit it and make it better. --Jpkotta 08:34, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Should include information on the proccesses and software involved in producing installable fonts from vector images.

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[edit] Incomplete

Last November I started a parent article about the new font systems you mentioned above: Smartfont. Unfortunately I do not have enough knowledge to write about differences and similarities of these systems. I am sure there is enough content for both articles, don't you think?--Hhielscher 05:06, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How Do I?

How do I get a font from the internet? I've downloaded the font, unzipped it, but I can't get it on Word 2003. How do I do this? 206.81.151.68 23:58, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Different Types of Fonts in use

Could this article give an overview about the different computer font formats please? Like .pfb, .pfm, .afm, .inf, .ofm, .ttf, .otf, .pk, .sfs, .xbm, .abf, .bdf, .fli and whatever. Would it make sense to split the many font formats in deprecated and in use? About the current ones I would like to read about the different use cases and advantages/disadvantages of each. Anyone with font knowledge out there?--Hhielscher 04:59, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] So what does 12 point font mean?

I was supprised to find that nowhere in this article did information about what 12 point or 24 point (etc) font actually mean. Is every font level representive of the amount of pixels in each word?--Frozenport 22:56, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Point size is a typesetting term. Oicumayberight 23:34, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merger of outline font and bitmap font articles

Outline and bitmap fonts cannot really be discussed properly without referring to each other for comparisons, so it makes little sense to have two articles for them - particularly when this article is already here and is better written. Neither of them have much information and most of it already appears here anyway, so the best course seems to be to merge them both into here. Asuffield 18:45, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Merge: I agree with points above. Oicumayberight 19:33, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I have merged the articles per the request.-Andrew c 21:53, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Missing history

This article badly needs some history.

When was the first computer font created? Did it have a precursor in, say, punch-cards for weaving machinery? Were fonts first hard-wired into operating systems, and later generalized into portable or loadable font files? When were bitmap and outline fonts invented? Were they first used for printing, or video display, or both? When were the first fonts ported from typefaces for print typography? When were antialiased and sub-pixel rendering systems implemented? What's coming next?

Thanks. —Michael Z. 2007-06-13 01:26 Z

[edit] Poor search

I was very surprised when I searched "mono-spaced font" and "mono spaced font" I did not find this page nor the monospaced paged. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.107.0.73 (talk) 04:18, August 22, 2007 (UTC)

Fixed (I hope!) ~The Little Green Man from Mars(My Page)(Where do I live?) 21:10, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dingbats

There is no mention of dingbat fonts here! They are incredibly important fonts that allow us to spice up reports with goofy pictures and icons! Something ought to be done - it's just I'm not sure how to go about it. ~The Little Green Man from Mars(My Page)(Where do I live?) 19:31, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

This article is not about typefaces. It's about font technology. Oicumayberight 19:41, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
This article is about computer fonts, like it says in the title. Should it not have, at the very least, at the top "If you were looking for information about types of typefaces, go to x"? ~The Little Green Man from Mars(My Page)(Where do I live?) 23:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Done! ;) Oicumayberight 02:53, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hershey Fonts

There is currently no mention in this article (or all of Wikipedia, as far as I can tell) of the Hershey fonts. Created in the 1960s by the National Bureau of Standards, they're certainly one of the earliest vector font packages ever created. They should probably be worked in somewhere.

http://emergent.unpythonic.net/software/hershey
http://www.umanitoba.ca/afs/plant_science/psgendb/doc/Phylip/draw.html (scroll down to bottom)

Clayhalliwell (talk) 18:35, 29 January 2008 (UTC)