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Matthew Skala

British Columbia and/or Winnipeg-based computer scientist who obtained his PhD from Waterloo. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manitoba, in the Computational Geometry Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science. He developed these fonts:

• Two free OCR fonts in truetype and type 1 formats: ocra10 (2006), ocrb10 (2006). Matthew points out that these fonts were generated from an existing metafont bitmap via mftrace.
• In 2010, he adapted Anthony I.P. Owen's StarFont (for astrological symbols) and placed type 1 versions together with the originals on CTAN.
• The free symbol font Genjimon (2010) in metafont and truetype.
• Tsukarimashou (2011) is a free metafont for Latin and kana, with an accompanying Opentype. A kanji extension is planned. This probably is the first metafont for Japanese. Styles include Kaku, Maru, Anbiruteki, Tenshi no kami, Bokukko, Mincho.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Matthew Skala
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search

INTERNAL LINKS
OCR fonts ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Astrological (or Zodiac) fonts ⦿ The Canadian type scene ⦿ Metafont links ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Type design in Japan ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿