It's time for Metric fonts

[Markus Kuhn]

Bo Hansen writes:
> What we need is fonts series, DTP programs and font management software
> (ATM) working with metric values as their native system of measurement, so
> the Metric Boys get the nice round figures and the Pica Freaks get all the
> silly digits!

Yep! Have a look at

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/metric-typo.html

for a quick summary of an upcoming new standard (DIN 16507-2) on
metric font sizes. This is very exciting: It is really simple and
practical to use and you have no more messy conversion factors
with archaic US units, points, and picas. Let's hope this new DIN
standard will one day become as widespread in typography as the
DIN/ISO paper sizes (A4, etc.) are already today.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>