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This template employs some extremely complicated or esoteric features of template syntax. Please do not attempt to alter it unless you are certain that you understand the setup and are prepared to repair/revert any consequent collateral damage if the results are unexpected. Any experiments should be conducted in the template sandbox or your user space.

{{Infobox font}} adds an Infobox to an article on a typeface.

[edit] Usage

{{Infobox font
| name = 
| familyname = 
| image = [[Image:{{{name}}} specimen.svg|220px|{{{name}}}]]
| style = 
| classifications = 
| creator = 
| commissioned_by = 
| foundry = 
| foundries = 
| creationdate = 
| releasedate = 
| trademark = 
| based_on =
| aka = 
| variations = 
| sample = Image:{{{name}}} sample.svg
| shown_here =
| sample_fullimage = Image:{{{name}}} full sample.svg
}}

[edit] Attributes

[edit] Required

name

Name of the typeface. If necessary, add stylistic variations (like "bold", "Italic", "Narrow", "Monospaced", etc.).

style

Style of the typeface: Serif, Sans-serif, Script, Blackletter, Display, Symbol

[edit] Optional

Not required, but recommended.

familyname

The name of the font's principal family. For instance, Arial Black is a part of the Arial family.

classifications

A more specific term for the style, such as "Modern", "Humanist" or "Geometric"

image

Image of name of the font, set in its own face. This is different than the sample attribute below. SVG file format is recommended.

based_on

Refers to the original design on which a revival, reinterpretation, homage or extension is based upon. This is not the same as a clone, for which the "aka" attribute should be used.

aka

Alternate (or imitation) names for other fonts based on this typeface. For instance, "Swiss 721" is Bitstream's name for its release of Helvetica.

creationdate

The year the font was created.

releasedate

The year the typeface was first released, if different than the creation date.

creator

Name of this font's designer(s), if known. Otherwise leave blank and fill in foundry name.

commissioned_by

Name of organization or individual who originally commissioned the typeface to be created.

foundry

The original distributor and license owners of the typeface.

foundries

The names of foundries that have re-issued the typeface in the same format or formats differeing from the original, ie. digital.

trademark

The owner of the font name, or the holder of the font's trademark.

variations

List of alternate foundry type designs based on the letterforms of this typeface. For instance, "Garamond", Adobe Garamond", and "ITC Garamond" are different designs, yet are all based on the same original typeface.

sample

A sample of the font, displaying a single large character ("g"), the "quick brown fox" pangram, and a set of characters (A–Z, a–z, 0-9, basic puncuation). SVG file format is recommended.

shown here

Names the version of the font pictured in the illustration.

sample_fullimage

A large sample image of the font, displaying its full character set (typically, the standard 256 glyphs of a TrueType font). SVG file format is recommended.

[edit] Examples

[edit] Normal syntax

Typeface	Bookman
Category	Serif
Classifications	Slab serif
Designer(s)	Alexander Phemister
Foundry	ITC
Sample
(See all characters)

{{Infobox font
| name    = Bookman
| image   = [[Image:Bookman font.svg|220px|Bookman]]
| style   = [[Serif]]
| classifications = [[Slab serif]]
| date    = [[1860]]
| creator = [[Alexander Phemister]]
| foundry = [[International Typeface Corporation|ITC]]
| sample  = [[Image:Bookman_sample.svg|220px|Bookman sample text]]
| sample_fullimage = Bookman.png
}}

[edit] Minimal syntax

{{Infobox font
| name  = Comic Sans
| style = [[Script]]
}}

[edit] Optimal syntax

Typeface	Helvetica
Category	sans-serif
Designer(s)	Max Miedinger
Foundry	Haas’sche Schriftgießerei Linotype
Variations	Helvetica Neue Helvetica Rounded Nimbus Sans
Also known as	Swiss 721
Sample

{{Infobox font
| name = Helvetica
| image = [[Image:Helvetica font.svg|220px|Helvetica]]
| style = [[Sans-serif]]
| aka = [[Swiss 721]]
| date = [[1957]]
| creator = [[Max Miedinger]]
| foundry = [[Haas Typefoundry|Haas’sche Schriftgießerei]]<br />[[Linotype]]
| variations = [[Helvetica Neue]]<br />[[Helvetica Rounded]]<br />[[Nimbus Sans]]
| sample = [[Image:Helvetica sample.svg|220px|Helvetica sample text]]
}}</nowiki>

[edit] See also

• Template:Infobox font (edit talk links history)
• Template:TypeBox (edit talk links history)
• Template:Infobox typeface (edit talk links history)es:Plantilla:Infobox fuente

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[edit] Discussion

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[edit] Comic Sans (Taste)

Made an infobox for fonts. It's pretty basic at the moment - feel free to refine it. See Comic Sans for an example of the infobox in use. DynaBlast 16:35, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Some thoughts

I like this very much. DynaBlast: Thanks for desiging this! It's nice to see some standardization being introduced for typefaces.

A couple thoughts about the "style" section. "Style" when referring to fonts generally means "italic", "bold", etc. What we mean here is "category". Any objections to my changing that?

Also, we should try to stick to an established list of categories. I just redid the categories on the Typeface page, so currently we have:

• Serif
• Sans-serif
• Script
• Blackletter
• Display
• Monospaced
• Symbol

I think this is a reasonably comprehensive and encompassing list, so I would argue that we should try to only use these categories in the infobox. Again, let me know your thoughts. —Chowbok 19:01, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I would have no problems with these changes. I know little about typefaces, and was hoping someone would come along and correct any little mistakes I made. :P DynaBlast 20:26, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I would remove "Monospaced" from that list, as it's more a description of the proportional width of the font characters, not the style of the face itself. For example, a font like "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" is a sans-serif face but it is also a monospaced font. —Down10 TACO 23:45, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

That's a reasonable point, but if that's taken out, I would request that another field be added to indicate whether the typeface is proportional or monospaced, as that is important information. —Chowbok 04:39, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Conditionals, et al.

I went ahead and put conditionals into the infobox, and cleaned up the docs — because I can! ;-)
Let me know if you like it. If not, it should be easy enough to fix. —Down10 TACO 07:12, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox Font Edits

I've been making some changes to the infobox, these include adding some attributes: based_on, foundries, comissioned_by. i have also implemented the creationdate and releasedate attributes. i have restructured the infobox, but need some help to restructure further as per the requests on my user talk page. i'm sorry if i have tread on any toes in making these changes, i suppose these can always be rolled back if they're unwanted. any feedback on what has been done is welcome as well. pablohoney 21:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC) I've duplicated this template with my changes at Template:Infobox typeface, so that if my recent edits are found unacceptable, I can continue to use the format that I've developed over the course of the past several hours.pablohoney 23:36, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Pablohoney. yep, I uderstnad the blue is a link. the idea was to make it more unfied by having the link all one color (blue) rahter than reading one word blue, one word black, if the virgule followed by name doesn't work, why not just drop name, sort of self-explanatiory. category doesn't really show up in typebooks, have taken a look at 6, Jaspert & Berry, Macmilliam, Lupton, Friedl, Kane, and Blackwell. All use "classification." I agree some people ae throwing inaccurate terms around. I think here's our chane to clean it up and echo what ATypI (Association Typographique International) and other type organizations and writers publishers do. I'm starting to impliment, going back to faces that don't yet have the infobox. Thanks for tightening the space around rules. CApitol3 23:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)