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

[Brendan Molloy]

I'm assuming this is Windows XP? Webfonts don't render properly at all
on XP.

Pirat at LennStar.de wrote:
> 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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