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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)

[edit] Font preview

What is the purpose of the Font preview section? — The Storm Surfer 21:20, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] variants field

Is this where you list typefaces that are basically clones of, or closely derived from, the one in the article? That's how I interpreted the description. If so, should there be a parameter (maybe "variantof") for the reverse relationship—or should we make those articles redirect to the "original" as is done for the Helvetica example? If we redirect, should we have a standard article section to detail whatever small differences these variants may have? Charcoal is one reason I ask these questions: are Truth and Virtue variants? ⇔ ChristTrekker 21:51, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sample characters shown in info box

I realize it would be quite an effort to update; but I think it would be useful to include in the sample text of characters which are known, in some fonts, to be used to trick computer users in phishing or other scams (either in web addresses, email addresses, or user names). The two most common substitutions that I can think of are:

  • "l" and "I" (a lower case "L" and an upper case "i")
  • "O" and "0" (an upper case "o" and the number zero)

Does anyone else have an opinion on this? --161.88.255.139 (talk) 21:11, 18 December 2007 (UTC)