{"id":300,"date":"2007-07-24T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T11:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=300"},"modified":"2008-09-08T18:15:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T17:15:57","slug":"inconsolata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/typo\/inconsolata","title":{"rendered":"Inconsolata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our <a href=\"http:\/\/pzwart.wdka.hro.nl\/mdma\/staff\/jjfcramer\/\">Rotterdam reporters<\/a> made us notice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levien.com\/type\/myfonts\/inconsolata.html\">Inconsolata<\/a>, a monospaced font designed by Ghostscript maintainer <a href=\"http:\/\/levien.com\/\">Raph Levien<\/a>. Levien offers an OTF version, plus &#8216;raw&#8217; fontforge files on his webpage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First and foremost, Inconsolata is a humanist sans design. I strove for the clarity and clean lines of Adrian Frutiger&#8217;s Avenir (the lowercase &#8220;a&#8221;, in particular, pays homage to this wonderful design), but also looked to Morris Fuller Benton&#8217;s Franklin Gothic family for guidance on some of my favorite glyphs, such as lowercase &#8220;g&#8221; and &#8220;S&#8221;, and, most especially, the numerals. <small>(Ralph Levien)<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dutch sample text generated in Scribus:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"sample.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sample1.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sample_th.jpg\" alt=\"sample.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scribus uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/etext\/11024\">Gutenberg text version of Multatuli&#8217;s Max Havelaar<\/a>. The English default is Bram Stoker&#8217;s Dracula. Of course you could select your own preferred source!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our Rotterdam reporters made us notice Inconsolata, a monospaced font designed by Ghostscript maintainer Raph Levien. Levien offers an OTF version, plus &#8216;raw&#8217; fontforge files on his webpage. First and foremost, Inconsolata is a humanist sans design. I strove for the clarity and clean lines of Adrian Frutiger&#8217;s Avenir (the lowercase &#8220;a&#8221;, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,3],"tags":[33,66,2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}