Font family: | Plagwitz |
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Font version: | 001.000 |
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Characters: | 350 |
Number of glyphs: | 314 |
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Copyright notice: | Copyright 2000, Frantisek Storm. All rights reserved. |
Font family: | Plagwitz |
Font Subfamily name: | Regular |
Unique font identifier: | TransType Pro (Win);Plagwitz;001.000;03/08/05 17:23:36 |
Full font name: | Plagwitz |
Version string: | 001.000 |
Postscript name: | Plagwitz |
Trademark: | Please refer to the Copyright section for the font trademark attribution notices. |
Manufacturer Name: | Frantisek Storm |
Description: | Plagwitz is the name of the part of Leipzig where the Werkst tten and Museum f r Buchkunst are to be found, which, in September 2000, hosted the ATypI Congress. During the lecture on Black Letter type faces, a lovely quotation from Bismarck could be heard: "I never read German books set in Roman type." These circumstances had given me the idea that it would be nice to create some distinctive Black Letter type face. The best Black Letter type faces we know date from the Gothic period, when books were copied by hand, with the use of a bevelled quill. Our alphabet still takes into account Neo-Classical influences when decorative ascenders of upper case letters were added. In 19th-century typography, such Black Letter type faces were frequently complemented with Didot-type Roman faces and steel-engraver s scripts. I, too, would recommend to combine Plagwitz-Gotisch with type faces like, for example, Hercules, Genre, Excelsor Script and Splendid Quartett. |
Pixel unit: | 1000 |
Vertical minimum: | -366 |
Vertical maximum: | 800 |
Horizontal minimum: | -114 |
Horizontal maximum: | 1207 |
Mac Style: | 0 |
Minimum readable pixel size: | 3 |
Font direction: | 2 |
Ascending part: | 750 |
Descending part: | -170 |
Line spacing: | 0 |
Maximum step width: | 1227 |
Minimum left side beraring: | -114 |
Minimum right side beraring: | -147 |
Non component maximum points | 0 |
Non component maximum contours | 0 |
Word weight type: | 400 |
Word width type: | 5 |
Size of superscript horizontal font : | 700 |
Size of superscript vertical font | 650 |
Superscript horizontal deviation | 0 |
Superscript vertical deviation | 140 |
Size of subscript level font: | 700 |
Size of subscript vertical | 650 |
Subscript horizontal offset: | 0 |
Subscript vertical offset: | 477 |
Delete line size: | 50 |
Delete line position: | 250 |
Font selection identifier: | 64 |
Typography ascending: | 673 |
Typography descending | -206 |
Typography spacing: | 66 |
Ascending part: | 800 |
Descending part: | 366 |
Bevel: | 0 |
Underline position: | -125 |
Underline thickness: | 50 |