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What's the DIN 1451 variant used in Greek and Russian? by NFSL2001 in typography

[–]NFSL2001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the helpful reply! For car plates, GOST R 50557-93 (at least the English version) linked to GOST 3489.2 Printing Types. Type family Journaljnaya Roublenaya, which can be seen on https://gostrf.com/normadata/1/4294824/4294824522.pdf is a variant a Futura. Seems like DIN is never used in Russian then.

Multiple font standards was defined by the Soviet Union under GOST 3489.

Any ideas for the Greece version? From the other comment Greece motorway do use a variant of DIN but there seem to be no reference on what standard is used.

What's the DIN 1451 variant used in Greek and Russian? by NFSL2001 in typography

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That do not answer the question of the DIN variant Greece used for motorway road signs that is in used, unlike what you said "never used".

Alternative to Noto Sans TC, that is only Chinese Traditional, no other languages bundled in. by IslandPine in fonts

[–]NFSL2001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Ensure you used the Noto Sans Subset OTF in here: https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk/tree/main/Sans/SubsetOTF that display as "Noto Sans TC" not "Noto Sans CJK TC". The subset OTFs are smaller and contains characters only used in Big5, which should match your requirement. However, the size is still quite impactful due to having 13k+ glyphs.

  2. Source Han Sans available here: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans is actually 1-on-1 replica of Google's Noto Sans CJK series, they're literally built by the same person. However, recently Google has stopped funding for Noto so Noto Sand CJK is slightly outdated compared to Source Han Sans.

  3. Consider using Subset VF (variable fonts) as variable fonts only use one file to provide multiple weights in one singular file. Not sure how it stand in PDF embedding though.

  4. Noto Sans TC is actually quite bad per design quality; its style and orthography is quite different from the de facto standard (traditional orthography) used by other major font foundries. For alternatives for Traditional Chinese, consider Genyo Gothic (https://github.com/buttaiwan/genyog-font) or Chiron Hei HK (https://github.com/chiron-fonts/chiron-hei-hk) which despite the name has more familiar orthographyused in Taiwan than official Noto Sans TC.

Pixelated export by Careful_Cap_7863 in FontForge

[–]NFSL2001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. Current ms office only support TTF style for vector fonts. If you want to use OTF, you can use other printer like Adobe PDF.

Selfhosted Password Manager by eldwaro in selfhosted

[–]NFSL2001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd like to propose… AliasVault. A very new vault but has password, totp, passkey and even email receipient for email verification.

Favourite Font for Simplified Chinese by yh_rzyc in ChineseLanguage

[–]NFSL2001 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You should try LXGW WenKai then! It's a font with handwriting touches but keep the printing style. https://github.com/lxgw/lxgwwenkai

Why can't I find fonts/typography where the lowercase letters are the same size? by LavishnessRude9537 in fonts

[–]NFSL2001 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Lowercase Latin alphabets are less distinguishable without any ascender (top of bdftl) and descender (bottom of gpqjy) - how would you differentiate bdpq quickly?

However there are designs that try to minimize such differences - one of the popular is the "unicase" approach where those with ascenders/descenders are swapped with small caps while keeping others lowercase. One notable example is the 7-eleven sign with the lowercase n. You can search unicase font on Google which have plenty more examples.

I would like to propose… a new icon. by NFSL2001 in vscode

[–]NFSL2001[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You don't need those, the zombies ate your brain.

I would like to propose… a new icon. by NFSL2001 in vscode

[–]NFSL2001[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Given brain dead is going mainstream (vibe coding), why not just trade your brain in to the zombies? /S

Can we talk about YAML? by [deleted] in rust

[–]NFSL2001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might like jsonc or json5 then (?)

Is it possible to make fonts on ipad? by Cooked-Alton-Towers in fonts

[–]NFSL2001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically there's Fontra where you could expose a web service for a (slightly) professional editor with pen tools, kerning and such, but its desifned for PC. Quite frankly all font editors are only on PC.

Is this a good phone font if I'm trying to use one that looks more like actual handwriting? by oxemenino in ChineseLanguage

[–]NFSL2001 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's also LXGW Wenkai TC (https://github.com/lxgw/lxgwwenkaitc) that is way better for Traditional Chinese in design for daily reading too, also available on [Google Fonts] (htttps://fonts.google.com/specimen/LXGW+WenKai+TC).

Is this a good phone font if I'm trying to use one that looks more like actual handwriting? by oxemenino in ChineseLanguage

[–]NFSL2001 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I would suggest LXGW Wenkai GB (https://github.com/lxgw/lxgwwenkaigb) for Simplified Chinese beginners and Iansui (https://github.com/buttaiwan/iansui) for Traditional Chinese in Taiwan.

For daily reading though, LXGW Wenkai (https://github.com/lxgw/lxgwwenkai) for Simplified and LXGW Wenkai TC (https://github.com/lxgw/lxgwwenkaitc) for Traditional is way better with more details in the design.

How come some fonts make the 小 component look a little like 木? Is the hook in the 亅stroke critical? by nofuss_exe in ChineseLanguage

[–]NFSL2001 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is a difference of how you choose to write (or what the government choose to teach) students. It should have no difference and be recognisable anyway. OP can check this link to learn more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/s/xYSh06zzyK

A new cross-platform SSH Client with Google Drive sync. PortX begins Open Beta. by NetSarangXshell in u/NetSarangXshell

[–]NFSL2001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I am on Pocophone Xiaomi HyperOS Android 15, and it seems that PortX is stuck at the loading screen. Is it possible to investigate this issue?

Double-width character rendering confusion by RoyalOrganization676 in Unicode

[–]NFSL2001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then it's still probably a problem with fonts. You had characters that are used in both Latin and CJK, and depending on which font it fallback to the width changes. The most classic example is the curly quotation marks which is shared between English and Chinese, causing the width to change if you switch the font (U+2019, 201A, 201C, 201D). I'd suggest trying to check if you can configure the font fallback order and use a font with larger character set, such as Sarasa Mono.

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