June 2006
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be useful for special applications or as general “backup fonts.” The following fonts are
illustrated in Figure 1-24; the rectangular boxes indicate a lack of glyph in the font.
Doulos SIL (http://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSILfont)
A
free font family that contains a large repertoire that is suitable for almost any text
based on a Latin or Cyrillic script. It also contains a rich set of phonetic symbols
and is therefore useful for linguistics.
Code2000, Code2001, Code2002 (http://home.att.net/~jameskass/)
Large shareware fonts. Often used as ultimate backup due to coverage, but not
typographically for normal use.
Everson Mono (http://www.evertype.com/emono/)
A simple, monospace font, which is legible even in rather small size. Shareware.
For many additional fonts, please refer to http://www.alanwood.net/Unicode/fonts.html.
Installing new fonts is typically easy. On Windows, having downloaded a font, you can
open the Control Panel via the Start menu, open the Fonts folder, and select File →
Install New Font. Then find the folder where you downloaded the font, and the font
will appear in a menu, to be selected for installation. After installation, you can check
that the font is available, by opening a program’s font menu.
Fonts in Web Authoring
Originally, web pages had no font information; each browser used its own font. Soon
after, <font> tags were introduced and gained popularity among web authors. ...
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