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Rubicon implements essential font features

Rubicon implements essential font features in its digital fonts as follows:

  • Accurate curve placement
  • Precise font metrics
  • Gridfitting hints
  • Standard formats and character set
  • For print or web
Accurate curve placement delivers superior print quality

Each characters is digitised as a series of scalable Bezier curves and lines. This digitisation  is:
  • Accurate to a resolution of 1000x1000 units per em square
  • Conforms to mathematical rules and technical guidelines
  • Delivers superior print quality on inkjet, laser printer, or typesetting devices from 300 to 2500 dpi.
Precise font metrics ensure unobtrusive spacing

Each character is assigned precise character metrics to ensure unobtrustive character spacing. These metrics include:
  • Baseline positioning
  • Horizontal and vertical alignment
  • Curved overshoots
  • Adjustments for irregular character shapes
  • Kerning pairs: each font generally contains 80 to 220 kerning pairs
Gridfitting hints lead to legibility on-screen

Our fonts are programmed with Postscript Type1 gridfitting hints to improve the legibility of characters on-screen. Highlights of this hinting are as follows:
  • All hints programmed manually
  • Optimized for edge smoothing
  • Vertical alignment zones
  • Stem width hinting
  • Character level hints
  • Replacement hints
  • Type1 hints converted to TrueType. No superhinting.
Standard formats and character sets provide compatibility

Rubicon fonts are available in standard formats with standard character sets. Highlights are as follows:
  • PC Type1, PC Truetype, and OpenType CFF formats
  • Windows 1252 Latin 1 character set.
  • Extra characters for Mac OS
  • TrueType versions use Unicode for character enconding
Fonts for print or web

CSS Fonts Module Level 3 and the @font-face rule bring web based add-on fonts to the web. This is something new. Fonts in TrueType format are hosted on web sites, not installed on the browser machines. Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and beta versions of most other browsers support CSS Fonts Module Level 3. Microsoft Internet Explorer does not. It supports embedded fonts in Embedded OpenType (EOT) format only.



Screen font proof sheets

The following proof sheets in PDF format illustrate how well our fonts rasterize on-screen at typical text sizes.


Printer font proof sheets

The following printer font proof sheets in PDF format illustrate how well our fonts print. The text is the Microsoft MSWSmoke print test for fonts.
Web font sample pages

The following sample pages demonstrate our fonts as web-based add-on fonts. In order to view the pages correctly you need a web browser that supports CSS Fonts Module Level 3.

Humanist Fonts
Newspaper and Book Fonts
Realist Fonts
Packaging Fonts

Colophon

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 Windows XP
Sea Monkey 2.04
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
Adobe Photoshop 6.0




Updated May 17, 2010