Talk:Theano Didot

Latest comment: 8 years ago by Liebeskind in topic Just a minor point

Just a minor point edit

While certainly interesting and worth keeping, I do wonder if it isn't better to have a combined article on all three of the Theano fonts, since they're intended to be a matched set: Didone and rather display-oriented, Didone text-oriented, old-style. You could move the article over if you change it into that.

Also to add: these aren't likely to be heavily used as-is for scholarship, since there's no italic. I've therefore linked to Cardo and Junicode, which are likely to be more useful for scholars writing complex texts. Blythwood (talk) 07:21, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Actually the only thing the three styles have in common is the name Theano. I would not want to combine them in one article, as they even might evolve separately in future. At my university we highly appreciate this font and I am thinking about adding the missing Italic and Bold styles as well as IPA — but only to Theano Didot, as we are not interested in the other styles. One reason for that is that Theano Didot is even very suitable for body text. It's the first implementation of Didot I know, which is well readable at small sizes and looks very neat, if the resolution is high enough (in my case 235 PPI). Actually I use it on a daily basis in my browser as a forced replacement for Serif an Sans Serif fonts. Here, even the automatically generated bold and slanted styles look good. --Liebeskind (talk) 08:07, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Reply