TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Tue May 14 17:15:34 EDT 2024
FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE
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Bitstream Charter
[Matthew Carter]
Alternate URL. Originally made by Matthew Carter in 1987, an upgraded commercial version was released by Bitstream in 2004 under the name Charter BT Pro. Bitstream Charter is a typeface optimized for printing on the low-resolution 300 dpi laser printers of the 1980s. The typeface is suitable for printing on both modern high-resolution laser printers and lower resolution inexpensive inkjet printers. In 1992, along with their version of Courier, Bitstream donated the Charter font to the X Consortium under terms that allowed modified versions of the font to be redistributed. Several others took them up on the offer, most notably SIL which published Charis SIL, which has an extended glyph set that covers Cyrillic and other scripts. In 2013, Michael Sharpe extended Bitstream Charter and provides small caps, oldstyle figures and superior figures in all four styles, accompanied by LaTeX font support files. Sharpe's fonts are called XCharter (opentype and type 1). Bitstream's Transitional 801 is identical to Charter. |
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file name: S I L Charis S I L 1997 2014
file name: S I L Charis S I L 1997 2014b
file name: Charis S I L specimen
file name: Matthew Carter Bitstream Charter B T Pro
file name: 1000px Bitstream Charter sample
file name: Michael Sharpe X Charter Roman 2013 based on Matthew Carter Bitstream Charter 1990
file name: Michael Sharpe X Charter Roman 2013 based on Matthew Carter Bitstream Charter 1990b
file name: Michael Sharpe X Charter Roman 2013 based on Matthew Carter Bitstream Charter 1990c
file name: Xcharter after Matthew Carter Bitstream Charter 1980s
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