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Overpass Mono™ Initial Release · Version 1.02 · December 2, 2016 Overpass Mono Refactoring The Cathedral and the Bazaar Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary import java.util.StringTokenizer; import java.util.StringTokenizer; public class StringTokenizerReturnTokensAsOb- public class StringTokenizerReturnTokensAsOb- jectsExample { jectsExample { public static void main(String[] args) { public static void main(String[] args) { //create StringTokenizer object //create StringTokenizer object StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer("Java StringTokenizer Exam- StringTokenizer("Java StringTokenizer Exam- ple"); ple"); //iterate through tokens using has- //iterate through tokens using has- MoreElements() method MoreElements() method while(st.hasMoreElements()){ while(st.hasMoreElements()){ System.out.println(st.nextElement()); System.out.println(st.nextElement()); } } } } } } 2 Overpass Mono About the Typeface Overpass is a bespoke typeface designed by Delve Fonts Red Hat has generously made the Overpass family freely between 2011–2016 on commission from Red Hat, Inc. with available to the public under the SIL Open Font License direction provided by Andy Fitzsimon, Jakub Steiner, and The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). and Ben Dubrovsky. Designers: Delve Withrington and Dave Bailey The design of Overpass is an interpretation of the rather well-known “Highway Gothic” letterforms from Year Created: 2016 the Standard Alphabets for Traffic Control Devices published by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration. Styles in Family (4): Light, Regular, SemiBold, and Starting from those specifications, critical adjust- Bold ments were made to the letterforms to create an optimal presentation at smaller sizes on-screen and later for Formats Available: Truetype (TTF), OpenType (OTF), and display sizes — especially in the lighter weights. popular Webfont formats (EOT, WOFF, WOFF2) Overpass Mono is a thoughtful, fixed pitch reimagining OpenType Layout Features: Access All Alternates (aalt), of the Overpass proportional design. Consisting of four Localized Forms (locl), Subscript (subs), Superscript weights ranging from Light to Bold, each monospace (sups), Numerators (numr), Denominators (dnom), weight matches the weight of their counterparts in the Fractions (frac), Ordinals (ordn), Case-Sensitive Forms proportional family. The Overpass Mono fonts are finely (case), and Slashed Zero (zero) tuned to meet the requirements of today’s programmers. Language Support: The Overpass typeface has an Professional programmers tested Overpass Mono during Extended Latin character set, which supports the its development. Careful consideration was given to following languages: Albanian, Basque, Banat Bulgarian, the appearance and vertical position of characters Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, commonly used in contemporary programming languages English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, based on user feedback. As an example, the zero (0) is French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, dotted for disambiguation from capital letter ‘O’ but Indonesian, Irish (modern), Italian, Kalaallisut (West a slashed zero is also provided for those preferring Greenlandic), Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, that form. Another is the six-pointed style and midline Manx, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Oromo, position of the asterisk that handily takes up the task Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian (Gajica), Slovak, of representing the elusive multiplication symbol. Slovene, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh. The initial character set of Overpass Mono is comprised of over 980 glyphs covering dozens of Latin alphabet Body copy on this page is set in Overpass Mono Light based languages and includes complete Unicode® ranges and SemiBold 9pt/11pt. for Mathematical Operators and Box Drawing, a selection of over 30 Arrows, and more. 3 Overpass Mono Weight Comparison at 20pt Mono Light SYNTACTIC SUGAR Mono SemiBold SYNTACTIC SUGAR syntactic sugar syntactic sugar @Il{[(/* @Il{[(/* Light SYNTACTIC SUGAR SemiBold SYNTACTIC SUGAR syntactic sugar syntactic sugar @Il{[(/* @Il{[(/* Mono Regular SYNTACTIC SUGAR Mono Bold SYNTACTIC SUGAR syntactic sugar syntactic sugar @Il{[(/* @Il{[(/* Regular SYNTACTIC SUGAR Bold SYNTACTIC SUGAR syntactic sugar syntactic sugar @Il{[(/* @Il{[(/* 4 Overpass Mono 12pt Light 12pt Regular Open-source software (OSS) is computer software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available with a with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. the software to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative public manner. Open-source collaborative public manner. Open-source software is the most prominent example of open- software is the most prominent example of open- source development. source development. The open-source model, or collaborative The open-source model, or collaborative competition development from multiple competition development from multiple independent sources, generates an increasingly independent sources, generates an increasingly more diverse scope of design perspective than more diverse scope of design perspective than any one company is capable of developing and any one company is capable of developing and sustaining long term. A report by the Standish sustaining long term. A report by the Standish Group (from 2008) states that adoption of open- Group (from 2008) states that adoption of open- source software models has resulted in savings source software models has resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers. of about $60 billion per year to consumers. In 1997, Eric Raymond published The Cathedral In 1997, Eric Raymond published The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a reflective analysis of the and the Bazaar, a reflective analysis of the hacker community and free software principles. hacker community and free software principles. The paper received significant attention in The paper received significant attention in early 1998, and was one factor in motivating early 1998, and was one factor in motivating Netscape Communications Corporation to release Netscape Communications Corporation to release their popular Netscape Communicator Internet their popular Netscape Communicator Internet suite as free software. This source code suite as free software. This source code subsequently became the basis behind SeaMonkey, subsequently became the basis behind SeaMonkey, 5 Overpass Mono 12pt SemiBold 12pt Bold Open-source software (OSS) is computer software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available with a with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. the software to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative public manner. Open-source collaborative public manner. Open-source software is the most prominent example of open- software is the most prominent example of open- source development. source development. The open-source model, or collaborative The open-source model, or collaborative competition development from multiple competition development from multiple independent sources, generates an increasingly independent sources, generates an increasingly more diverse scope of design perspective than more diverse scope of design perspective than any one company is capable of developing and any one company is capable of developing and sustaining long term. A report by the Standish sustaining long term. A report by the Standish Group (from 2008) states that adoption of open- Group (from 2008) states that adoption of open- source software models has resulted in savings source software models has resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers. of about $60 billion per year to consumers. In 1997, Eric Raymond published The Cathedral In 1997, Eric Raymond published The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a reflective analysis of the and the Bazaar, a reflective analysis of the hacker community and free software principles. hacker community and free software principles. The paper received significant attention in The paper received significant attention in early 1998, and was one factor in motivating early 1998, and was one factor in motivating Netscape Communications Corporation to release Netscape Communications Corporation to release their popular Netscape Communicator Internet their popular Netscape Communicator Internet suite as free software. This source code suite as free software. 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