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Fonts for Professional Typography
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Fonts for Professional Typography
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/rse/typopro
- Owner: rse
- Created: 2013-12-30T18:34:17.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-04-14T15:00:07.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-20T07:53:57.041Z (24 days ago)
- Homepage: http://typopro.org/
- Size: 1.11 GB
- Stars: 134
- Watchers: 14
- Forks: 11
- Open Issues: 3
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- Readme: README.md
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README
TypoPRO
=======
http://typopro.org/
*Fonts for Professional Typography — The Non-Cloud Way!*
**TypoPRO** is a carefully hand-selected collection of freely usable
professional fonts for use in Desktop Publishing (DTP), on Websites and
especially inside Web-based Desktop or Mobile Applications. Currently,
**TypoPRO** consists of **1933** individual fonts of **200** font families. The
fonts in total span a very wide range of font types, font styles, font
weights and font variants. This way, **TypoPRO** provides a magnitude of
typographic possibilities with just a minimum number of font families.
Features
--------
- **Preselection** & **Assembling**:
The fonts were carefully hand-selected, manually downloaded and
consistently assembled into the **TypoPRO** collection. For many fonts
the real upstream vendor origin of their latest versions had to be
determined first, too.
- **Glyph Design**:
All fonts are professionally crafted and have their glyphs (individual
characters) beautifully designed and this way provide a really
wonderful optical appearance. Most of the fonts are actually from
professional font foundries.
- **Font Families**:
Most of the fonts are based on reasonably large font families of
individual fonts. This is important, because for professional
typography results you usually always need multiple weights of at
least the headline and text fonts.
- **Kerning**:
Most of the fonts carry reasonable kerning information, provided by the
font foundry: instructions for spacing adjustments between particular
pairs of glyphs. This is important, because for professional
typography, kerning is essential.
- **Hinting**:
All fonts carry reasonable hinting information, provided by the
conversion process (and its `ttfautohint` utility) of **TypoPRO**:
display instructions for rasterization adjustments at various
rendering sizes. This is important, because for rendering fonts on the
Web at very small sizes, hinting is essential.
- **Liberal Licensing**:
All fonts are under very liberal Open Source licenses and can be
freely and unrestrictively used even in Closed Source and Commercial
contexts.
- **Web Conversion**:
All fonts are consistently converted from their original TTF/OTF
format into various font formats for use on the Web: Embedded OpenType
(EOT), Web Open Font Format (WOFF) and TrueType Font (TTF). These
different formats for each font are required for maximum portability
across browsers and operating systems. Suitable corresponding CSS
`@font-face` declaration files were generated, too.
- **Unicode Character Reduction**
Some fonts contain a really large number of glyphs, covering a wide
range of the Unicode character set. This is great in general, but
dramatically increases the font size, which is a major drawback on the
web. For this reason, although it reduces the fonts to be used for
the main Latin based languages (English, German, etc), we reduce the
fonts in web formats to the smaller Unicode range 0000-00FF (Basic
Latin, Latin-1 Supplement). For the DTP formats of all fonts we reduce
to the larger (but still reduced for some very large fonts) Unicode
range set 0000-036F,1DC0-1EFF,2000-20FF,2150-218F,2C60-2C7F,A720-A7FF
(Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B,
IPA Extensions, Spacing Modifier Letters, Combining Diacriticals
Marks, Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement, Latin Extended
Additional, General Punctuation. Superscripts and Subscripts, Currency
Symbols, Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols, Number Forms, Latin
Extended-C, Latin Extended-D)
- **Font Renaming**:
To circumvent license restrictions related to font format conversions
and to avoid confusion with the original font formats, all Web and DTP font
format variants were renamed to consistently carry the `TypoPRO `
prefix.
- **Font Parameters**:
In the Web font format variants, all font families consistently use
a common font family name (CSS `font-family` attribute) and all
fonts within the same font family are consistently distinguished
via CSS parameters `font-weight`, `font-style`, `font-stretch` and
`font-variant`.
- **Specimen**:
For the Web font variants, a specimen in HTML format was generated to
conveniently preview the font. See http://typopro.org/specimen/ for
the current overview of all specimens in **TypoPRO**.
Font Overview
-------------
A [Specimen](http://typopro.org/specimen/) in HTML format allows you to
conveniently preview all the TypoPRO font in detail. This Specimen
is grouped into General Purpose and Special Purpose fonts.
#### General Purpose Fonts
The fonts in the General Purpose group are for general uses, i.e., they
can be used equally well for headlines, body text, footnotes, etc. They
especially are part of whole font families and cover a wide range of
Unicode characters.
#### Special Purpose Fonts
The fonts in the Special Purpose group are for special uses, i.e., they are usually
used only for particular headlines, subtitles, tags, etc. They are
usually just stand-alone fonts and cover just a very limited range of
Unicode characters.
Browser Support
---------------
All major browsers are fully supported by TypoPRO due to the fact
that each font is provided in multiple Web formats. The actual minimum
browser version which supports a particular format follows (for latest
information see [1](http://caniuse.com/eot) [2](http://caniuse.com/ttf)
[3](http://caniuse.com/woff)):
Browser | EOT | TTF | WOFF
----------------------------|-----:|-----:|-----:
Internet Explorer (Desktop) | 6.0 | 9.0 | 9.0
Internet Explorer (Mobile) | -- | -- | 10.0
Mozilla Firefox (Desktop) | -- | 3.5 | 3.6
Mozilla Firefox (Mobile) | -- | 26.0 | 26.0
Google Chrome (Desktop) | -- | 4.0 | 5.0
Google Chrome (Mobile 2) | -- | 33.0 | 33.0
Google Chrome (Mobile 1) | -- | 2.2 | 4.4
Apple Safari (Desktop) | -- | 3.1 | 5.1
Apple Safari (Mobile) | -- | 4.2 | 5.0
Opera (Desktop) | -- | 10.0 | 11.1
Opera (Mobile) | -- | 10.0 | 11.0
This means that for the latest versions of all major
browsers the optimized WOFF format would be both sufficient and
preferred. But for backward compatibility to older browser versions, the
EOT and TTF formats are still provided, too.
Notice: The fonts are intentionally not provided in the additional
browser-supported SVG font format. The reason simply is that since a
longer time this gives not really any additional effective cross-browser
compatibility and just unnecessarily increases the (already rather
large) TypoPRO distribution size.
Notice: The fonts are intentionally still not provided in the newer
WOFF2 format as support for this format is still limited and although
WOFF2 fonts are better compressed, this is no great advantage as long as
we still have to ship WOFF format, too.
Alternatives
------------
Nowadays, most of the fonts can also be individually
downloaded for free from _online_ font libraries like
[Font Squirrel](http://www.fontsquirrel.com/),
[DaFont](http://www.dafont.com/),
[Fonts2U](http://www.fonts2u.com) or
[fontsc](http://www.fontsc.com) or even _on-the-fly_ used from font
Cloud services like [Google Fonts](http://www.google.com/fonts),
[Open Font Library](http://openfontlibrary.org/),
[Adobe Edge Web Fonts](https://edgewebfonts.adobe.com/),
[Adobe Typekit](https://typekit.com/),
[FontDeck](http://fontdeck.com/) or
[Brick](http://brick.im/). But the purpose of **TypoPRO** is just
different: it provides an _offline_ solution and it intentionally
is a very opinionated pre-selection of reasonable (meaning
high-quality) fonts.
Download
--------
You can conveniently download latest snapshot or particular versions of
**TypoPRO** with the Node Package Manager (NPM):
$ npm install typopro # latest version
$ npm install [email protected] # particular version
This automatically installs the peer packages `typopro-web` and `typopro-dtp`, too.
As you usually need only the Web formats, you can install just this NPM package:
$ npm install typopro-web # latest version
$ npm install [email protected] # particular version
Alternatively, install just the DTP formats:
$ npm install typopro-dtp # latest version
$ npm install [email protected] # particular version
Finally, you can also download both Web and DTP formats manually, with e.g. cURL:
# download Web formats in latest or particular version
$ curl -O https://github.com/rse/typopro-web/archive/master.zip
$ curl -O https://github.com/rse/typopro-web/archive/4.2.6.zip
# download DTP formats in latest or particular version
$ curl -O https://github.com/rse/typopro-dtp/archive/master.zip
$ curl -O https://github.com/rse/typopro-dtp/archive/4.2.6.zip
Additionally, you can also use [Grunt](http://gruntjs.com/) and
my companion [Grunt-TypoPRO](https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-typopro)
task for conveniently installing **TypoPRO** font families.
Desktop Usage
-------------
The DTP variants of all fonts you can find under `dtp/` in the
`typopro-dtp` package. Just install those files into your system:
- For Windows: For single and bulk installs, right-click one or more `*.ttf` files and choose "Install"
from the context menu.
- For Mac OS X: For single installs, open the `*.ttf` file with the Font Book app
and choose "Install Font". For bulk installs drag & drop the
fonts into the `Fonts` folder of the `Library` folder in the
Finder app.
- For GNU/Linux:
For single installs, open the `*.ttf` file with the Font Viewer app
and choose "Install". For bulk installs copy the
`*.ttf` files into `/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype` folder of your system
and run `sudo fc-cache`.
Web Usage
---------
The Web variants of all fonts you can find under `web/` in the
`typopro-web` package.
It is important that the font files are delivered to the browser with
the correct MIME content-types. You can use the following Apache
`.htaccess` configuration snippet to achieve this:
# provide reasonable MIME content-types
AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot
AddType application/font-woff woff
AddType application/x-font-ttf ttf
# compress all fonts (except already compressed WOFF)
AddOutputFilter DEFLATE eot ttf
In order to use an individual font you have to use
two steps:
1. Include the `@font-face` based CSS font declaration:
```html
[...]
[...]
[...]
```
2. Use CSS to apply it to some of your HTML elements:
```html
[...]
.sample {
font-family: "TypoPRO Lora";
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 14pt;
}
[...]
[...]
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog
[...]
```
Recommendation
--------------
For general purpose typography, I can recommend you all of the General
Purpose fonts of TypoPRO, of course. But my personal preference most of
the times is towards the fonts in the following table. There are many
reasons for this, but mainly all those fonts, each in their class, in my
humble opinion, provide the best balance of legibility (because of very
distinct glyph outlines), beauty (because of very harmonic glyph curves)
and versatility (because of their different available stroke widths and
optional italic variants).
Sans Serif:|Slab Serif:|Serif: |Monospaced: |Script: |Display:
----------------|----------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------------|---------
Fira Sans |Roboto Slab |Merriweather |DejaVu Sans Mono |Handlee |Bebas Neue
Roboto |Aleo |Droid Serif |Source Code Pro |Journal |Overlock
Source Sans Pro |Bitter |Lora |Anonymous Pro |Delius |Yanone Kaffesatz
Open Sans |Andada |Source Serif Pro |Latin Modern Mono |Kalam |Poetsen
Lato |Crete Round |Libre Baskerville|Fira Mono |Nautilus Pompilius |Quando
| |Petrona |Inconsolata |Arima Madurei |Sansita
| |Gelasio |JetBrains Mono | |
Manifest
--------
The **TypoPRO** distribution consists primarily of three content areas:
- package [`typopro`](https://github.com/rse/typopro): the meta information
- package [`typopro-web`](https://github.com/rse/typopro-web), folder `web/`: all font target files for Web (World Wide Web) usage (formats: TTF, EOT, WOFF)
- package [`typopro-dtp`](https://github.com/rse/typopro-dtp), folder `dtp/`: all font target files for DTP (Desktop Publishing) usage (formats: TTF)
- package [`typopro-src`](https://github.com/rse/typopro-src), folder `src/`: all font source files (formats: TTF, OTF)
All source files are as provided by the upstream font vendor, just with
filenames aligned to the usual **TypoPRO** conventions. For the DTP and Web
targets, the fonts are subsetted (see "Unicode Character Reduction"
above), renamed and format converted.
Rebuilding
----------
Rebuilding the Web and DTP format files is not easy, because in
order to rebuild the `web/` and `dtp/` files from the `src/` files,
you have to use the `etc/convert.sh` script, which needs Ralf S. Engelschall's **fontface**
utility, as provided by the [OpenPKG](http://www.openpkg.org/) package `fontface`,
and a magnitude of backend programs for font conversion: [FontForge](http://fontforge.org/),
[font-optimizer](http://bitbucket.org/philip/font-optimizer/) and [ttf2eot](http://ttf2eot.googlecode.com/).
On installing the OpenPKG `fontface` package, the dependencies are installed automatically.
If you want to rebuild without using OpenPKG, you have to fiddle around with
all dependencies yourself, of course.
Licensing
---------
Copyright © 2013-2024 Dr. Ralf S. Engelschall <[email protected]>
All included font families are distributed under very liberal Open
Source licenses, either MIT License, Apache License, Open Font License
or Public Domain. For particular license details on each individual
font family, please see the files `src/*/license.txt` and the meta
information in the files `src/*/blurb.txt` in the `typopro-src` package.
Author
------
Dr. Ralf S. Engelschall
[http://engelschall.com](http://engelschall.com/)
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])