[pp.int.general] New Font: Gehen Sans

[Brendan Molloy]

The 'a' is actually meant to be slightly below the baseline to lead the
eyes into the character, due to the lack of tail. It might be a little
too deep at the moment though.

Feel free to send a screenshot though, webfonts are not good for seeing
the "true" font, and it's worth seeing what you do.

Pirat at LennStar.de wrote:
> There is a difference between english "a" (looks ok) and Spanish "a"
> (has only a dot on bottom) On the other hand, a and e seem to be
> "deeper" than the rest of the word.
> 
> And if this part
>     *  Gehen Sans
>     * Gehen Sans Bold Condensed
>     * Gehen Sans Mono Programmer
> is already the font, you have other problems with a and d. I can send
> you screenshot if you want.
> 
> LennStar
> 
> Am 30.01.2012 06:23, schrieb Brendan Molloy:
>> (This is one of the emails that I guess was never sent!)
>>
>> So after the whole Aller debacle, I thought I might take DejaVu Sans as
>> a base and work it a bit to make it more how we'd like it to be, and
>> here's the result of a few days of work:
>> http://bbqsrc.github.com/gehen-fonts
>>
>> Here are a couple of examples of "Pirate Party" in a few languages:
>> http://bbqsrc.github.com/gehen-fonts/pirateparty.html
>>
>> And you can see the font in our tentative logo used in our ACTA
>> submission to JSCT:
>> http://pirateparty.org.au/media/submissions/ppau-acta-submission.pdf
>>
>> I think it looks quite good :). Any comments?
>>
>>
> 
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