![]() I welcomed his request to change the name to Pragmata. The only drawback was the request I received from Christopher Burke, author of a humanistic-linear published earlier and having the same name I had chosen for my font. Pragma is really taking such a “pragmatic” form, proving to be able to work very well and to be meet the task it was designed for. Those decimals made me suffer more than a little… In the final part of the work a long process of revision of the hinting program was needed, since there was no consistency between the typographic points and the screen representation through the different operating systems (for example, to a 14 pt. I carried out several tests in order to verify the yield on the screen, both on Mac and Windows. Afterwards I maniacally cared about the programming and the hinting of the Truetype version for each symbol or letter from 9 pt. ![]() I set out by defining the bitmap drawing of the 11 pt., the size at which I preferred to work, and I got the outline design of the glyphs as a result, taking as a template the bitmaps I designed. From a professional point of view, it was really a memorable achievement. This function made it possible to generate fonts of professional quality level, equal to those produced by industry leading companies such as Monotype, Bitstream, Linotype etc.Ī few years earlier I had already been able to detect it, effectively creating characters on commission for customers such as C.P. It allowed us to manually control the programming of TrueType fonts. ![]() FontLabĪt that time a new application for drawing and editing characters, FontLab, came out on the market. My font had to: - be monospaced - be condensed - have contained line-spacing - offer a perfect rasterization at screen. One day I made the decision to design the font I needed. Working with these fonts stole valuable programming time as the shipping dates approached. Since this is a character originally designed for typewriters, its forms weren’t suitable forms for rendering onscreen. Personally I used the Truetype version of Letter Gothic, but the screen rasterization was produced with showy imperfections. Regular programming work ended up straining your eyes. Courier and Monaco could be used at very small sizes but the width of the letters and the other glyphs was excessive.
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