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ABOUT

Rafael de Azevedo

Designer of the parametric typeface Nu Alfabet (2017). He writes: This is a family of fonts that clone Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet parametric typesetting system. It is the culmination of an exercise for learning how to use Python and the Glyphs font editor API. The family consists of several variations in the glyphs proportions automatically generated from a high level description of the design in Python code (or a metafont) in the broad sense that Donald Knuth defined in the Metafontbook, that is, a schematic description of the shapes in a family of related fonts.

Each font has in its name a sequence of five parameters that describe its proportions, in order according to the manner in which Crouwel conceived the system variations:

• the number of vertical units (odd progression, defines glyph width)
• the number of UPMs per vertical unit (that is, the unit width)
• the number of horizontal units (odd progression; defines glyph height; at least x-height + 4)
• the number of UPMs per horizontal unit (that is, the unit height)
• the number of horizontal units that comprise the x-height (odd progression)

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