Weiss font
Jordan
having trouble figuring out where to get it (if I don't already have
it) and how to specify using it.
weiss is on the typefaces list here <http://www.tug.org/fontname/html/
Typefaces.html>
I tried:
\Large{
\usefont{T1}{ws}{m}{sc} % TeX extended text, Weiss, medium, small
caps
Institution
}
which gives me the error:
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T1/ws/m/sc' undefined
(Font) using `T1/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 30.
I've also tried using `weiss' in the font call instead of ws
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Joseph Wright
You are presuming that the font is installed: the list you refer to
defines font names, but that does not mean you'll have it set up for
LaTeX. Do you have the font available, what is your TeX system, etc.
--
Joseph Wright
Yan Zhou
I am afraid this font is not freely available. Weiss is a commercial
font. The Foundry is Adobe.
Bob Tennent
>
>> On Apr 26, 9:58 pm, Jordan <bluesqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I need to use the Weiss typeface for an institution logo, and I am
>>> having trouble figuring out where to get it (if I don't already have
>>> it) and how to specify using it.
>
> font. The Foundry is Adobe.
Other foundries sell versions of Weiss. Check out
http://new.myfonts.com/search/weiss/fonts/
To the OP: You'll need to purchase fonts in Windows Postscript format
and install according to the instructions in the fontinstallationguide
at CTAN or otherwise if your TeX distribution provides an installer.
Bob T.
Joseph Wright
> Other foundries sell versions of Weiss. Check out
>
> http://new.myfonts.com/search/weiss/fonts/
>
> To the OP: You'll need to purchase fonts in Windows Postscript format
> and install according to the instructions in the fontinstallationguide
> at CTAN or otherwise if your TeX distribution provides an installer.
Or, more easily, use XeLaTeX + fontspec to load the system font
directly.
--
Joseph Wright
Robin Fairbairns
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:29:53 +0100, Yan Zhou wrote:
> >> On Apr 26, 9:58 pm, Jordan <bluesqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I need to use the Weiss typeface for an institution logo, and I am
> >>> having trouble figuring out where to get it (if I don't already have
> >>> it) and how to specify using it.
> >
> > I am afraid this font is not freely available. Weiss is a commercial
> > font. The Foundry is Adobe.
>
> Other foundries sell versions of Weiss. Check out
>
> http://new.myfonts.com/search/weiss/fonts/
it isn't terribly expensive, is it? (quite a nice font, not the sort
of thing you tend to associate with logo-designers ;-)
> To the OP: You'll need to purchase fonts in Windows Postscript format
> and install according to the instructions in the fontinstallationguide
> at CTAN or otherwise if your TeX distribution provides an installer.
surely the institution itself is likely already to have a copy?
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Bob Tennent
>> http://new.myfonts.com/search/weiss/fonts/
>
> quite a nice font, not the sort
> of thing you tend to associate with logo-designers ;-)
From the web site I referenced:
Rudolf Weiss designed this typeface in 1926 for the Bauer foundry of
Frankfurt. Weiss is based on typefaces from the Italian Renaissance, and
is one of the earliest contemporary serif types to have italics based on
the chancery style of writing.
The vertical strokes that are heavier at the top than at the bottom are
unusual, and give Weiss a distinct beauty. Weiss is a legible text type
and an elegant display face for headlines or titles.
Bob T.
Robin Fairbairns
indeed; it's an obvious face for such usage, but with the modern trend
for "brutalist" logos, one's always pleasantly surprised to see an
"appropriate" font being used.
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Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge