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

[Pirat@LennStar.de]

Very interesting.

4 pictures.
first is Avant Browser using IE8-Trident.

second is Orca Browser using FF's Gecko I think.

third and forth is Firefox
BUT FF shows it 100% correct first. That got me curious - it changed
with github script allowed or not.

LennStar

Am 30.01.2012 09:55, schrieb 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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> 

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