Condensed Typewriter font with Cyrillic/extended Latin support?

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3 total messages Started by Joel_Cherney Wed, 02 May 2007 21:14

#1373

Author: Joel_Cherney
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 21:14

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One of my clients has decided that titles should always be set in American Typewriter Condensed Bold. He tried to convince me that a good way to set titles in Russian and Vietnamese was to set them in Courier New and play with tracking and horizontal scaling until it looks "okay." This will never be okay with me. Can any of you suggest a typewriter-lookin' font that has the glyphs for these languages (or Cyrillic, at least), that also has a condensed face?

Re: Condensed Typewriter font with Cyrillic/extended Latin support?

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Author: Neil_Keller
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 21:54

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I agree with the choice of a typewriter font for titles (or most running text) is just a bad choice. It is special-purpose. One problem, of course, with most typewriter fonts is that they are monospaced and are designed to appear least objectionable when set that way. Tracking and scaling won't improve their appearance worth the effort.

American Typewriter Cond is properly optically spaced, but the clunky typewriter serifs drag it down visually. I'd suggest a sans serif "typewriter" font, but then, it won't look like a, um, typewriter font.

That said, I looked at several dozen typewriter fonts. I saw none even close to American Typewriter Cond for appearance or readability.

Neil

Re: Condensed Typewriter font with Cyrillic/extended Latin support?

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Author: Odysseus1479
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:27

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In article <3bc3d0a8.-1@webcrossing.la2eafNXanI>,
 Joel_Cherney@adobeforums.com wrote:

> Can any of you suggest a typewriter-lookin' font that has the glyphs 
> for these languages (or Cyrillic, at least), that also has a 
> condensed face?

Officina Serif is not exactly condensed, but it seems narrower than 
average:

<http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detail.htm?pid=431967>.

URW Typewriter doesn't have a condensed version, but it would probably 
survive pseudo-condensing better than Courier:

<http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.htm?pid=410163>.

-- 
Odysseus

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