TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Mon Apr 15 05:27:22 EDT 2024
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THDL: The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library
[Tony Duff]
Site at the University of Virginia. The Trace Foundation has sponsored an important initiative to assist the use of Tibetan script in a digital environment. First, they have made Tibetan Computer Company's (TCC) Tibetan Machine typeface, freely available to the public under a general public license (GPL). Second, they have sponsored the creation of a web-amenable cross-platform version of the same font, entitled Tibetan Machine Web. Downloads at this site, which states: "The development of these public-domain fonts was only possible due to the efforts of Mr. Tony Duff of the Tibetan Computer Company over many years and his generosity in collaborating with Trace Foundation to make his font available under a general public license. The original creator of the Tibetan Machine typeface, Mr. Duff spent years consulting Tibetans and their calligraphy in order to perfect the font, which is widely considered to be one of best Tibetan fonts in the world. Tibetan Machine is also one of the most comprehensive font in its coverage of Tibetan punctuation marks and a variety of other symbols not found in most other fonts. In addition, Mr. Duff has created other even more attractive fonts, such as Tibetan Calligraphy, that use the same encoding as Tibetan Machine. These, their Tibetan word processing software and electronic literature using the fonts are available for purchase from the Tibetan Computer Company (for details contact TCC at tdolma@wlink.com.np or Snow Lion Publications at http://www.snowlionpub.com). With the sponsorship of the Trace Foundation, Mr. Duff created the web-viable version of his font, known as Tibetan Machine Web. Also freely available to the public under a general public license, this font was created by changing the encodings of the original Tibetan Machine font, but it still uses the same elegant glyphs. Furthermore, Mr. Duff has kindly provided extensive documentation for both fonts that has and will greatly aid developers in their implementation." Tony Duff created Dzongkha Calligraphic, a font that was bundled with the Dzongkha! program for WordPerfect for MS DOS. Dzongkha! was a version of TCC Tibetan! commissioned by the Dzongkha Development Commision for distribution within Bhutan. Alternate URL for his free fonts: TibetanMachine, TibetanMachineSkt1, TibetanMachineSkt2, TibetanMachineSkt3, TibetanMachineSkt4 (1999-2000). |
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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |