Posts Tagged ‘how to make fonts’

MathMagic v8.0 for Mac

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Professional equation editor for Mac OS X. This version now supports Apple’s new iBooks Author, as well as other iApps, including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. The upgrade also includes: new Math body text fonts and improved symbol fonts, drag & drop support for PDF equations, and improved Math Styles and fine control. Selected for use by thousands of large publishers and university presses around the world, MathMagic offers hundreds of mathematical expressions and symbols, reads LaTeX and MathML, and saves in high quality formats.

iBooks Author, Apple’s recently released free application for OS X, promises to accelerate the iPad revolution in education. According to Apple, the new app allows users to easily create “beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks – and just about any other kind of book – for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could.” MathMagic Personal Edition 8.0 complements the ease of use offered by iBooks Author, and facilitates the creation of new textbooks that incorporate equations and scientific symbols, as well as the conversion of print textbooks for the iPad.

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How Helvetica Conquered

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

How Helvetica Conquered The World With Its Cool, Comforting Logic

What is it about the Swiss? Or, to be precise: what is it about the Swiss and their sans serif typefaces? Helvetica and Univers both emerged from Switzerland in the same year–1957–and went out to shape the modern world. They would sort out not just transport systems but whole cities, and no typefaces ever looked more sure of themselves or their purpose. The two fonts appeared at a time when Europe had thrown off all shackles of postwar austerity and had already made a strong contribution to midcentury modernism. You could sit in your Bertoia Diamond chair (Italy, 1952) and read about a forthcoming concept called Ikea (Sweden, 1958), while all around you buildings began to get squarer and more functional. Helvetica and Univers were perfectly suited to this period, and their use reflected another pervasive force of the age–the coming of mass travel and modern consumerism.

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facts about those fonts

Monday, February 6th, 2012

IF, in this digital era, we judge one another according to the technological choices we make — that is, the smartphones, laptops and tablets we own — it follows that we’re going to measure each other’s personality, aptitude and worth by the fonts we use.

It makes sense, doesn’t it? After all, for centuries we’ve happily assumed all kinds of things about people we hardly know because of their accents. Nowadays we communicate largely in text, and technology allows us to select fonts from myriad options, so it’s inevitable we’ll postulate, generalise and pass judgment on others because of the typefaces they choose. Several recent studies have been done on the subject.

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Pictos creations

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Designer Drew Wilson has expanded his Pictos royalty-free icons project, unveiling Pictos Server. The new venture enables you to build icon fonts from a 650-strong library. The website states that Pictos Server works in a manner similar to Typekit, “in that you paste a Pictos code snippet into your HTML and the Pictos Server will serve your custom made icon font straight to your website”. However, the site notes that the Pictos snippet does not rely on JavaScript, instead using CSS and a <link> element.

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Handwritten Font

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