3 Fonts with good Thai-Roman character support

One challenge for using Thai script on a computer is that Thai characters are more vertical than roman alphabet characters. If one is mixing roman and Thai characters in a document, the Thai characters tend to be much smaller (and therefore illegible if the roman characters are optimized for space and legibility). At this point [...]

July 10, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: typography • No Comments

Font Comparison – Free / open source – Legibility, Professionalism, Resume

Introduction Fonts have to perform in a variety of settings, in particular on computers (pdf and web) and in printed documents. Are there open source alternatives to proprietary fonts? Short answer: Yes! Two kinds: Serif and Sans Serif Serif fonts have squiggly things on the letters, and sans serif do not (sans means “without). That’s [...]

February 20, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: design • No Comments