10 TUGboat, Volume 34 (2013), No. 1 Fonts! Fonts! Fonts! QUATTROCENTO Bob Tennent A Classic Roman Typeface Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu- Abstract lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et Discussion of four new font packages and a revamped netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. font package, with notes on the implementation of the support packages. QUATTROCENTOSANS 1 Introduction A Classic, Elegant & Sober Typeface Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu- Several new font-support packages (with fonts in- lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehic- cluded) have been installed at CTAN recently and ula augue eu neque. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et adopted by distributions such as TEX Live and MiK- malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. T X. The primary reason for this outburst is that E rently available; for now, the quattrocento package the Google Web Fonts (GWF) site1 has provided a activates artificially slanted variants. focal point for both amateur and professional font Quattrocento Sans is described as warm, read- developers to distribute liberally-licensed fonts. A able and not intrusive; it is said to be the perfect second reason is that the freely-available fontforge2 sans-serif companion for Quattrocento. It is the main font editing software and the lcdftypetools and body font at Impallari's own website.3 Quattrocento autoinst packages now provide the tools necessary Sans currently has regular, bold, italic and bold-italic to provide LAT X support for new modern fonts rela- E variants. The quattrocento package activates both tively easily; this technology has also been used to of the Quattrocento families by default, but options revamp the widely-used libertine package, which allow selecting just one of them. had been abandoned by its original developer. This article will discuss the following packages: 2.1.2 Cabin and Cabin Condensed • quattrocento C a b i n • cabin A Humanist Sans with a Touch of Modernism • librebaskerville Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum • ebgaramond ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue • libertine eu neque. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada but it should be noted that there are two other impor- fames ac turpis egestas. tant GWF-derived packages: opensans (supporting Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, plac- erat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy the Open Sans family, designed by Steve Matteson of eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque. Pellentesque habi- Monotype Imaging) and sourcesanspro (support- tant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. ing the Source Sans Pro family, designed by Paul D. Hunt of Adobe Systems). Impallari describes Cabin as a humanist sans inspired by Edward Johnston's and Eric Gill's typefaces, with 2 Font packages a touch of modernism; it incorporates modern pro- portions, optical adjustments, and some elements of 2.1 Fonts by Pablo Impallari the geometric sans. Pablo Impallari is a young Argentinian typeface de- Cabin currently has four weights (regular, bold, signer and font developer. He is a professional but medium, and semibold) and designed italic variants believes in \open-doors" type design, and encourages of all of these; furthermore there are four condensed participation in font development. variants. All of these have designed small capitals. 2.1.1 Quattrocento and Quattrocento Sans 2.1.3 Libre Baskerville Impallari describes Quattrocento as a classic, ele- Libre Baskerville is apparently based on 1941 spec- gant, sober and strong typeface; the wide and open imens produced by the American Type Founders letterforms, and great x-height, make it very legible Company, but has a taller x height, wider counters for body text at small sizes, and the tiny details that and minor contrast to allow it to work at small sizes only show up at bigger sizes make it also great for on any screen. display use. Only regular and bold variants are cur- There is a designed italic and a bold, but cur- rently there is no bold-italic variant; an artificially 1 http://www.google.com/webfonts 2 http://fontforge.org/ 3 http://www.impallari.com Bob Tennent TUGboat, Volume 34 (2013), No. 1 11 3 Implementation notes LIBREBASKERVILLE 3.1 Introduction Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dic- tum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer Traditionally, font-support packages have relied on id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque. Pellen- fontinst; this package assumes Type 1 (Postscript) tesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. font format, which commercially is increasingly con- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, sidered to be a legacy format. It is possible to use vestibulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. fontforge or other software to convert a TrueType Donec vehicula augue eu neque. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senec- or OpenType font to Type 1 format and re-encode tus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. it to, say, Adobe encoding, but incorporating fea- slanted version of the bold variant is substituted by tures such as old-style figures or small capitals is the librebaskerville package. a rather painful process, described in full detail in the fontinstallationguide document available 2.2 Egenolff-Berner Garamond at CTAN. The otftotfm program of the lcdftypetools egenolff-berner garamond package will convert an OpenType font to Type 1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, plac- erat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy format and generate font metrics, virtual fonts, and eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque. Pellentesque encoding vectors for use with conventional LAT X en- habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. E gines, including support for small capitals, old-style Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, non- figures, titling glyphs, superior figures, swash glyphs, ummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. and so on, when these features are provided by the font. And the autoinst script in the fontools Georg Duffner is a Viennese graduate student of package will process an entire family of fonts us- Romance philology. He has begun a project4 of ing otftotfm, producing also the fd files (in any digitizing fonts by Claude Garamond and Robert choice of encodings) needed by LATEX. 5 Granjon on a famous type specimen issued in 1592 It is true that emerging technologies (X LE ATEX by the Egenolff-Berner foundry in Frankfurt. At and LuaLATEX) make it possible for users to access present, only regular and italic variants are available, all the features of modern fonts directly, but using but they include designed small-caps and old-style radically different font-specification mechanisms pro- figures, both tabular and proportional. Also, some vided by the fontspec package. This is not a viable swash italics and decorative initials are available. approach for processing legacy documents. A solution to this dilemma is to implement a 2.3 Linux Libertine and Biolinum support package that, as much as possible, com- LINUXLIBERTINE patibly supports both traditional processing engines (LAT X, pdfLAT X) and emerging technologies based orem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu- E E lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. on fontspec. For example, any current LATEX engine LNam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque. produces the Quattrocento sample of the preceding section from the following input: Linux Biolinum \documentclass{article} Iam dui ligula, fringilla a, euismod sodales, sollicitudin vel, wisi. Morbi auctor lorem \usepackage{quattrocento} non justo. Nam lacus libero, pretium at, lobortis vitae, ultricies et, tellus. Donec aliquet, tortor sed accumsan bibendum, erat ligula aliquet magna, vitae ornare odio \begin{document} metus a mi. Morbi ac orci et nisl hendrerit mollis. Suspendisse ut massa. \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{center}\huge These families of fonts are designed by Philipp H. Q\,U\,A\,T\,T\,R\,O\,C\,E\,N\,T\,O 6 Poll, and include regular, italic, bold, and semibold \\ \Large variants of Linux Libertine, including small-caps and A Classic Roman Typeface old-style figures; regular, bold and italic variants \end{center} of Linux Biolinum (a compatible sans-serif family), \par\noindent also including small-caps and old-style figures; plus Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer a monospaced font, a display font, decorative initials adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum and a font of keyboard glyphs. ... \end{document} 4 http://georgduffner.at/ebgaramond 5 http://image.linotype.com/files/pdf/specimen.pdf As we shall see, it is relatively straightforward to 6 http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ implement this approach. Fonts! Fonts! Fonts! 12 TUGboat, Volume 34 (2013), No.