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Eyebytes is working on an in-house font called Bahn. Bahn features a complete international charcter set & a € (Euro currency) symbol. Bahn is a fairly large undertaking because of all the variations to be produced. Bahn will be offered monospaced & letterspaced, offer multiple grid heights & widths, and have circles and other shapes in addition to squares. Eventually there should be about 200+ fonts in the familly. There are about 20 so far. Bahn is initially based on a 83 em unit grid so that the basic 12pt font can perfectly match the pixels on screen.
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Work being done now has to do with optical vs. linear scaling. The traditional curve associated with optical scaling is exactly wrong for a font made of dots. It is likely that both will be offered to meet both print & screen users of the font. Eventually it would be nice to have an open type version of the font so that alternative charcters could be offered in one font - but for now these characters will probably have to be offered as a second alternative font to each primary font. Bahn 12pt monospaced is the font used this site's navigation elements. The Bahn Family will eventaully be offered to font publishers to license. |