_____________________________ | The Thienen font family | | | | by | | | | Luc Devroye | | Sandro Mazzucato | |___________________________|TABLE OF CONTENTS
The fonts are all named after areas near Luc's birth place in Tienen, Belgium. All of them conjure up nice memories. Here is the list:
Bierbeek: Watercolor brush. Display only. Binkom: Medium weight. Fast writing as on memos. Bost: Thin. Clean sans-serifed printed characters. Avant-garde capitals. Bunsbeek: Thin. Straight-up printed characters with a clean blackboard-math feel. Gete: Old typewriter. Glabbeek: Simple brush strokes. Display. Goetsenhoven: Unspectacular brush strokes. Grimde: Thin. Clean, slightly italic printed characters. Hoegaerden: Very thin. Nervously printed glyphs, slightly italic. Houtem: Medium. Straight-up printed characters, like a sloppy Tekton. Kumtich: Thin. Helvetica-like handprinting. No surprises. Meldert: Medium. Script capitals. Semi-curly printed characters. Oorbeek: Medium. Italic script with a slightly unsteady hand. Oplinter: Double-printed characters. For display only. OV29: Old typewriter. Good for mystery novel covers. Thienen: Medium. Printed to imitate a Courier typewriter. Not pretty. Vissenaken: Sans-serif yet curly printing. Uneven sizes of the haracters give this an unstable feeling. Waaiberg: Doodling characters with lots of curls. For display only. Medium weight. Lots of fun. Wommersom: Bold. Hurriedly printed characters, sloppy.And now for the memories (I, me, and my refers to Luc)....
Bierbeek Bier means "beer". Where my larger-than-life father lives, surrounded by a peaceful frog pond and a lovely garden. Binkom Where my aunt has a cottage and my brother Wim got married. Bost Ah, watching my brother Marc play soccer here on Sunday afternoons amongst the cowchips. Bunsbeek Where my uncle Hector lived and died and his son Jos now runs a rustic farm. Gete Pronounced "gay-at" in our dialect. The small river that meanders through Tienen. Muddy, smelly, but we could not have lived without it. Glabbeek The village of my high school buddies, Holsbeek and Laermans. Just a stone's throw from Bunsbeek, on the way to Aarschot, where my 300-pound uncle is a priest in a high school. Goetsenhoven The military airfield. Used to be surrounded by whorehouses. My brother did his military service here in the officers' mess as a bartender. I almost got arrested when jogging across the runway, but talked my way out of it. Grimde The South side of Tienen. Smells of French fries and beer. Hoegaerden The capital of the best beer in the world, the Grand Cru of Hoegaerden. Daily tasting. Try also Witte, Verboden Vrucht, and Julius. Houtem Birth place of my grandfather, Pepe. Everybody loved him in Tienen. At his funeral, the church was too small. Kumtich Not a nice place to live, but an essential part of Tienen. Meldert Memories of cycling up the steep hill in Meldert as a 10-year old. Oorbeek Peaceful village until a highway was built on top of it. Oplinter Village of my co-student at the University of Leuven, Michel Germeys. My cousin Piet now lives near Oplinter. OV29 All mailmen in Tienen know what OV29 is. It is the abbreviation used by the post office for Oude Vestenstraat 29. That is where my old typewriter lives out its life in the attic. I got it out again to get a sample for the OV29 and Gete typefaces. Thienen Ah, the old medieval city where I grew up and discovered a five-hundred year old skeleton in my garden as a boy. The college, the church bells, the annual "Kermis", the juicy dialect. Vissenaken One of my family members is buried here, but I always forget which one. Waaiberg Berg means hill or mountain. Not steep or long, but just good enoiugh to get the legs warmed up. The street of Jaak Merckx and Pa Jansen. Xavier Van Nuffel and I had our best times in Pa Jansen's wine cellar, siphoning off 1952 Aloxe Corton bottles and replacing the wine by cheap Algerian brew. Wommersom The smell of cows and pigs. Lots of flies and wasps in the summer.
Luc Devroye and/or Sandro Mazzucato School of Computer Science McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2A7 Tel: (514) 398-3738 FAX: (514) 398-3883 email: luc@cs.mcgill.ca, pedro@cs.mcgill.ca
The transformation to other formats such as TrueType and Intellifont was done by Danny Amor.
TropDePoils A typeface made for Italian menus. Isa-Roman Isa-Light Isa-Italic Isa-Bold Isa-LightItalic Isa-Calligraphic. An elegant family of fonts based on the handwriting of Isabelle Massarelli, Sandro's girlfriend. Bazooka Flamingo Two children's handwriting fonts based upon samples provided by Birgit and Natasha. Pach A famous Hungarian mathematician's thick pen. Cacographic-MathExtension Cacographic-MathItalic Cacographic-Roman Cacographic-SmallCaps Cacographic-Symbol Cacographic-TypewriterType A handwriting family similar to Knuth's Computer Modern family with cmr, cmmi, cmex, cmsy, and cmtt. This family still needs a bit of fine-tuning and adjusting. Hopefully, soon, a font will be available to do an entire set of course notes on mathematics in blackboard-style handwriting.
% Begin of TeX macros. % % The macro "adobe" sets all special characters for the use of % Adobe Standard Encoding fonts in TeX. % Call "adobe" if you wish it instated, % and remember to uncall when you switch fonts again, % by using "reset". % Works well with our fonts, and most KeyFonts Pro, % Adobe and Bitstream fonts. % Example: % ..... \font\rm=Vissenaken at 12pt % \adobe\rm % .. text % ..... \font\rm=cmr12 % \reset\rm % .. more text... % Luc Devroye, November 10, 1994. % \def\adobe{% \chardef\ss='373% germandbls \chardef\quotesingle='251 \chardef\exclamdown='241 \chardef\questiondown='277 \chardef\asciicircum='136 \chardef\asciitilde='166 \chardef\<=`< \chardef\>=`> \chardef\oe='372 \chardef\oslash='371 \chardef\AE='341 \chardef\ae='361 \chardef\OE='352 \chardef\Oslash='351 \chardef\cent='242 \chardef\sterling='243 \chardef\fraction='244 \chardef\yen='245 \chardef\florin='246 % \chardef\section='247 \chardef\currency='250 \chardef\quotedblleft='252 \chardef\guillemotleft='253 \chardef\guilsinglleft='254 \chardef\guilsinglright='255 % \chardef\fi='256 \chardef\fl='257 \chardef\endash='261 \chardef\dagger='262 \chardef\daggerdbl='263 \chardef\periodcentered='264 \chardef\paragraph='266 \chardef\bullet='267 \chardef\quotesinglbase='270 \chardef\quotedblbase='271 \chardef\quotedblright='272 \chardef\guillemotright='273 \chardef\ellipsis='274 \chardef\perthousand='275 \chardef\ogonek='316 \chardef\emdash='320 \chardef\ordfeminine='343 \chardef\Lslash='350 \chardef\ordmasculine='353 \chardef\dotlessi='365 \chardef\i='365 \chardef\lslash='370 \chardef\asciitilde=`~ \chardef\underscore=`_ % % \def\emdash{{\char'320}} \def\endash{{\char'261}} \def\`##1{{\accent'301 ##1}}% grave \def\'##1{{\accent'302 ##1}}% acute \def\v##1{{\accent'317 ##1}}\let\^^_=\v% hacek \def\u##1{{\accent'306 ##1}}\let\^^S=\u% breve \def\^##1{{\accent'303 ##1}}\let\^^D=\^% circumflex \def\.##1{{\accent'307 ##1}}% dotaccent \def\H##1{{\accent'315 ##1}}% hungarumlaut \def\~##1{{\accent'304 ##1}}% tilde \def\"##1{{\accent'310 ##1}}% dieresis \def\=##1{{\accent'305 ##1}}% macron \def\r##1{{\accent'312 ##1}}% ring % \def\^##1{{\accent195 ##1}} \let\^^D=\^ \def\:##1{{\accent'310 ##1}} \def\c##1{\setbox\z@\hbox{##1}\ifdim\ht\z@=1ex\accent'313##1% \else{\ooalign{\hidewidth\char'313\hidewidth\crcr\unhbox\z@}}\fi} % \def\c{\protect\pc}% cedilla \def\backslash{\protect\b@ckslash} \def\b@ckslash{\ifmmode \delimiter"26E30F \else \char`\\ \fi} \chardef\vbar=`\| } \def\reset{% \def\`##1{{\accent18 ##1}} \def\'##1{{\accent19 ##1}} \def\v##1{{\accent20 ##1}} \let\^^_=\v \def\u##1{{\accent21 ##1}} \let\^^S=\u \def\=##1{{\accent22 ##1}} \def\^##1{{\accent94 ##1}} \let\^^D=\^ \def\.##1{{\accent95 ##1}} \def\H##1{{\accent"7D ##1}} \def\~##1{{\accent"7E ##1}} \def\"##1{{\accent"7F ##1}} \chardef\%=`\% \chardef\&=`\& \chardef\#=`\# \chardef\$=`\$ \chardef\ss="19 \chardef\ae="1A \chardef\oe="1B \chardef\o="1C \chardef\AE="1D \chardef\OE="1E \chardef\O="1F \chardef\i="10 \chardef\j="11 % dotless letters \def\aa{\accent23a} \def\l{\char32l} \def\L{\leavevmode\setbox0\hbox{L}\hbox to\wd0{\hss\char32L}} } % End of TeX macros.
Luc Devroye and Sandro Mazzucato