A new typeface that might be of interest to medievalists, or "Heb je mijn Brill gezien?"
A librarian here just passed on a note to me that Brill have opened access to their new typeface. It is supposedly full of IPA and diacritics as well as Greek and Cyrillic.
We all know the type of thing Brill publish, so one might expect it to be grundlich, even if I haven't seen it yet myself.
http://www.brill.nl/news/brill-typeface
“The Brill†Typeface Publishing News - Publishing News Date: 2011, August 19
After careful consideration, Brill has taken the initiative of designing a typeface. Named “the Brillâ€, it presents complete coverage of the Latin script with the full range of diacritics and linguistics (IPA) characters used to display any language from any period correctly, and Greek and Cyrillic are also covered. There are over 5,100 characters in all. This indispensable tool for scholars will become freely available later this year for non-commercial use. You will be able to download the font package after agreeing to the End User License Agreement. “The Brill†is available in roman, italic, bold, and bold italic, with all necessary punctuation marks and a wide assortment of symbols. It will be especially welcomed by humanities scholars quoting from texts in any language, ancient or modern. “The Brill†complies with all international standards, including Unicode. John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks, well-known for his multilingual fonts, is the Brill’s designer.
-dan
I saw this mentioned on another list and have had a quick look. It looks very good. But I'd question whether Brill has "opened access." It's offered for private use only: the website doesn't say, but I suspect that if you want to use it in a publication you'll have to pay. There are several very good fonts for medievalists (besides Junicode, which I keep going on about); you can find them listed at the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative website (http://mufi.info). I'll also mention, for people who have a budget to spend on a font, Andron Mega (http://www.signographie.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=145). The design is brilliant, and it covers everything medievalists want.
Peter Baker
On 2/3/12 3:30 PM, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
A librarian here just passed on a note to me that Brill have opened access to their new typeface. It is supposedly full of IPA and diacritics as well as Greek and Cyrillic.
We all know the type of thing Brill publish, so one might expect it to be grundlich, even if I haven't seen it yet myself.
http://www.brill.nl/news/brill-typeface
“The Brill†Typeface Publishing News - Publishing News Date: 2011, August 19
After careful consideration, Brill has taken the initiative of designing a typeface. Named “the Brillâ€, it presents complete coverage of the Latin script with the full range of diacritics and linguistics (IPA) characters used to display any language from any period correctly, and Greek and Cyrillic are also covered. There are over 5,100 characters in all. This indispensable tool for scholars will become freely available later this year for non-commercial use. You will be able to download the font package after agreeing to the End User License Agreement. “The Brill†is available in roman, italic, bold, and bold italic, with all necessary punctuation marks and a wide assortment of symbols. It will be especially welcomed by humanities scholars quoting from texts in any language, ancient or modern. “The Brill†complies with all international standards, including Unicode. John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks, well-known for his multilingual fonts, is the Brill’s designer.
-dan
Strictly speaking, I said they'd opened access rather than that it was "open access" (I hadn't actually looked up the licence). I suppose it would have been best to just say "seem to have made free." ;)
I also didn't mean at all that there weren't superb fonts already out there, including of course Junicode. Michael Everson has a reference font that, actually comes closer to doing what Brill claims to do (in a different email I received), allow you to present texts in any language.
But I still think it is worth knowing about. And I /really/ wanted to get that Dutch pun in.
-dan
On 12-02-03 01:59 PM, Peter Baker wrote:
I saw this mentioned on another list and have had a quick look. It looks very good. But I'd question whether Brill has "opened access." It's offered for private use only: the website doesn't say, but I suspect that if you want to use it in a publication you'll have to pay. There are several very good fonts for medievalists (besides Junicode, which I keep going on about); you can find them listed at the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative website (http://mufi.info). I'll also mention, for people who have a budget to spend on a font, Andron Mega (http://www.signographie.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=145). The design is brilliant, and it covers everything medievalists want.
Peter Baker
On 2/3/12 3:30 PM, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
A librarian here just passed on a note to me that Brill have opened access to their new typeface. It is supposedly full of IPA and diacritics as well as Greek and Cyrillic.
We all know the type of thing Brill publish, so one might expect it to be grundlich, even if I haven't seen it yet myself.
http://www.brill.nl/news/brill-typeface
“The Brill†Typeface Publishing News - Publishing News Date: 2011, August 19
After careful consideration, Brill has taken the initiative of designing a typeface. Named “the Brillâ€, it presents complete coverage of the Latin script with the full range of diacritics and linguistics (IPA) characters used to display any language from any period correctly, and Greek and Cyrillic are also covered. There are over 5,100 characters in all. This indispensable tool for scholars will become freely available later this year for non-commercial use. You will be able to download the font package after agreeing to the End User License Agreement. “The Brill†is available in roman, italic, bold, and bold italic, with all necessary punctuation marks and a wide assortment of symbols. It will be especially welcomed by humanities scholars quoting from texts in any language, ancient or modern. “The Brill†complies with all international standards, including Unicode. John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks, well-known for his multilingual fonts, is the Brill’s designer.
-dan
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