[Culmus-announce] New font "Shmuel CLM"

[Dov Grobgeld]

Hi Yoram,

First of all, is there a culmus-discuss list? I think there should be, as
the kind of comments that I'm sending here should probably be discussed in
the open. Meanwhile I'm CC:ing linux-il in lack of a better place.

I had a look again at the Shmuel font, which I really like! But I found,
what I think are small inconsistancies that may be seen in the following
image:

[image: shmuel-font-tails.png]

The "serif" look different for different characters. There are more
characters with more or less the same serif, e.g. ג. I looked at Shmuel Katz
writing and I got the impression that he did not make this distinction. Of
course there are differences between each time you manually draw a
character, but I don't see the distinction between the different characters.


Another issue is the lack of serif on צ. Appearently Shmuel Katz wasn't
consistant there. Look e.g. at the 6th line of:

http://www.zchor.org/pesach/picspesach/hagadda22.jpg

which does have a serif.

Personally I prefer the font with more of a triangle than a tail, but I
agree that is not the way that Shmuel Katz wrote.

Another issue is the Teamim fonts. I'm working on a siddur for the Nokia
N900 and currently I'm using FrankRuehl CLM with my added logics for nikkud.
I was very interested to test your Teamey FrankRuehl font, but unfortunately
I felt it was much too spaced for my view. The large spacing between
characters and the nikud and the teamim might be good for clarity, but I
personally prefer the more traditional cramped version and returned to my
font. For small spacing you have to make much more efforts to avoid
collisions, but I think it is possible using complex multicharacter OpenType
GPOS rules.

Thanks again for your great work!
Dov

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 21:38, Yoram Gnat <yoramg at shenkar.ac.il> wrote:

>  Hi All,
> A new font, "Shmuel CLM" joins the Fancy font family which now contains 11
> fonts of different shapes.
> I designed the font in memory of Shmuel Katz (August 18, 1926 - March 26,
> 2010), the Israeli artist, ilustrator and cartoonist. The font is inspired
> by the letter forms of his hand drawn "Passover Hagadah" for the Kibutzim<http://www.zchor.org/pesach/pesach.html>.
>
>
> "Shmuel CLM" is available on the fancy fonts page<http://culmus.sourceforge.net/fancy/index.html>of Culmus project both as fontforge SFD source file and as truetype file.
> It fully supports Hebrew niqud (vowel marks, shin dots, dagesh, rafe and
> meteg) positioning. Cantillation marks (Teamim) were made transparent, thus
> text including them should still be displayed with proper positioning of the
> niqud.
>
> Regards
> Yoram Gnat.
>
>
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