Re: TECH: Russian handwriting font

On Tuesday, September 05, 2006 1:37 PM CEST, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> Carsten Becker skrev:
> > On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 06:54:48 +0200, Jean-François Colson
> > <fa597525@...> wrote:
> >
> >> For Win XP, there're the TrueType fonts Century Schoolbook (without the
> >> "L"), Times New Roman and, for Russian only, Arial.
> >> Here is a sample: http://users.skynet.be/fa597525/Cyritalic.jpg
> >
> > As I understand it, Benct is searching for a Cyrillic cursive font with
> > connected letters and all, not just for an italic font that uses cursive
> > shapes (m, u, mirrored-s etc.). Benct?
>
> Yes that's right. Russian handwriting looks subtly different from
> printed italics in a number of ways -- e.g. the lowercase |v| looks
> like a Roman cursive handwritten |b| (with a looped ascender of course),
> while |b| looks similar to a Roman |d| and |d| looks like a Roman
> cursive |g|.
Something like this?
http://users.skynet.be/fa597525/Alphabet%20russe.jpg
(I found this in an old French dictionary.)

>  An italic font that has these features might do,
> and I think Bodoni is one, but I don't have it.
> The Russian typefoundry paratype.com has some good ones,
> but they are USD 25 a piece...
Just a little expensive. How do you say "cursive", "handwring" and "font" in
Russian?

>
> > Yours,
> > Carsten
> >
> >
> >

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