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e-foundry: what's this?

e-foundry, what's it? According to the Wikipedia, “A foundry is a factory, which produces castings of metal, both ferrous and non-ferrous. Metals are processed by melting, pouring, and casting.” Type foundries are foundries specializing in casting fonts, mainly in metal, for the printing industry. Now metal fonts seem to be a thing of the past, type foundries prepare fonts in digital form, using digital, i.e., electronic tools, hence the term e-foundry. GUST is very active in TeX related font (type) activities. It arguably is one of the main digital font foundries for the TeX community, so e-foundry seemed an appropriate name for the activity.

Contents of this page

  1. Fonts, the e-foundry's products
  2. GUST Font License (GFL)
  3. The current problem: typesetting of mathematics
  4. The e-foundry tools
  5. The team

Fonts

The Latin Modern (LM) Family of Fonts

The Latin Modern (LM) family of fonts is expected to eventually replace Computer Modern, the first family of fonts designed by Donald E. Knuth for TeX. It contains a full set of mathematical fonts and is enhanced with diacritical characters for almost all scripts based on the Latin character set. The project team consisting of Bogusław Jackowski and Janusz Marian Nowacki uses the METATYPE1 technology for development. Follow this link to find LM-related resources, directly from the team members.

The TeX Gyre (TG) Collection of Fonts

This is here where GUST's e-foundry guys, Bogusław “Jacko” Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki aka “Ulan” are delivering fonts developed by them for the “New Font Project: TeX Gyre”. The project is funded by DANTE e.V., NTG, TUG, CS TUG, TUG India and GUST. It aims at remaking of the freely available fonts distributed with Ghostscript. Please see the publication(s) mentioned. For more information and download please follow this link.

Antykwa Półtawskiego

This is a two-element antiqua typeface designed by a Polish typographer Adam Półtawski (1881-1952). A digitized wersion of this typeface (though by far not as complete as other fonts described here), which is available in the regular, regular italic, bold i bold italic variants is being developed by Bogusław Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk. More information and downloads are available from Janusz M. Nowacki's web page.

Antykwa Toruńska

Already since 1996 Janusz M. Nowacki develops a digitized version of Antykwa Toruńska. This two-element antiqua typeface was designed by a well-known Polish typographer Zygfryd Gardzielewski (1914-2001). More information and downloads are available from Janusz M. Nowacki's web page.

Kurier and Iwona

Non-serif fonts: Kurier and Iwona. Kurier was designed in pre-computing times by Małgorzata Budyta, digitized and extended by Janusz M. Nowacki. He went on to design Iwona, which is very firmly based on Kurier. Iwona is named after Janusz's daughter. More information and font files download on Janusz's page.

Cyklop

A high-contrast, 2-font sans-serif family based on the slanted original designed around 1920s by ,“Odlewnia Czcionek J. Idźkowski i S-ka” type foundry in Warsaw. Digitized, extended with a complete set of diacritical characters and some glyphs not available in the original by Janusz M. Nowacki. Moreover, Janusz re-constructed the complete upright variant from the only surviving 11 glyphs shown in a book on typesetting technology. More information and font files download on Janusz's page.

Quasi (now obsolete)

The Quasi collection is a set of polonized variants of the very popular fonts from the Ghostscript distribution. The polonization, partly sponsored by GUST, was done by Bogusław Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk. The collection contains six familes.

GUST Font License

All GUST e-foundry's fonts are or will be licensed under the GUST Font License (GFL), which is legally identical to the LaTeX Public Project License (see the details)

Tools

METATYPE1

The main tools the e-foundry team uses is METATYPE1. Its newest official version might be obtained from CTAN.

Team members

  • Bogusław Jackowski, “Jacko”
  • Janusz M. Nowacki, “Ulan”
  • Marcin Woliński, “Teufel”
  • Piotr Strzelczyk, “PSotruś”
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