Re: TECH: Russian handwriting font

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|.  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...

> Yours,
> Carsten
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/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

    "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
    it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
    means "no"!

                            (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)

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