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

[Pirat@LennStar.de]

Yes, XP.

LennStar

Am 30.01.2012 11:18, schrieb 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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