Burmese Font Size and Design Concept

by **victor_lin21** » November 10th, 2007, 10:47 pm

I can brief about the basic implementation of computer font. It has two major parts in summary. First part is Encoding and Typo Nature/Logic. The second part is the design. So, this topic will share about the second part, the designer concept.
In lately release V2 version of UniBurma, I added extra faces. Right now, I got big feedback from internet users about that all font faces were smaller on internet browser printing. I've my point so far for modeling the font size a.k.a glyph size as this state. It can't be too big if the font meant for operating system use. But the internet browsing community tell the different story. Therefore for this purpose, I'm thinking for modeling web printing version which is basically bigger size than normal. Currently the project face naming use as the following naming standard:
UniBurma (production, main branch)
UniBurma_Regular (discontinued)
UniBurma_MSSerif (production)
UniBurma_SansSerif (production)
UniBurma_GGSerif (production)
UniBurma_FreeHand (still testing, derived version of CE_FreeHand)

I'll be thinking about adding upcoming fix release with extra face name UniBurma_Web or something for the purpose of web printing. The users have to explicitly declare the face name, which mean the face name UniBurma is different face name with all UniBurma_SomeThing.

Why UniBurma didn't focus on web version printing before?
Somehow, you can use Bit RFA or MyaZedi for this, thus this issue is not a major priority as a point of technical. Since Bit and MyaZedi have internal map collaboration, I guess, user can use UniBurma Keyboard Input with both fonts such as XKB, Window and Mac Keyboard.
To curious to test (like me) this, you can temporary take out bit-rfa font from your window system, then just left UniBurma inside your window computer and visit RFA Burmese homepage only with Firefox browser. You will see the face print out with UniBurma and observe the UniBurma smaller face instance. Seem from RFA burmese print css, they still enhanced the face size into 14 point.

Therefore, I was thinking to add-in bigger sizing in future for web purpose. At all cases, this is just designer preference and aspect. Anyway, I still want the community feedback for this issue regarding. So, please help here to discuss more about Burmese font character size and design concept. Reply in what you thoughts about and views, at least one of the following views.

End User point Vs. Technical point Vs. Designer point

by **victor_lin21** » November 14th, 2007, 10:19 pm

Type Face Name : UniBurma_Web.ttf
Version : 2.0 (follow up aligning with V2 release)
Note : This UniBurma_Web.ttf will include in main packaging with next upcoming bug fix release. Therefore, the UniBurma_Web.ttf version epoch start with revision at 2.0. Currently, temporary download from project main site temp directory.
Feature(s) : Major focus for web printing purpose. Just modification of glyph size into bigger face print. Recommanded for every usage in web printing.
Target Audience : Web developer, Web user, Blogger.

Download :
UniBurma_Web.zip (in zipped format)
UniBurma_Web.ttf (in ttf format, truetype binary)

by **victor_lin21** » November 16th, 2007, 2:13 pm

To all UniBurma userland,
I would like to propose and update font face family usage of UniBurma for your web development.
Basically, all UniBurma font family has same encoding at backend. And only the faces are chaining depends on end-user final print out result or desire. Thus, for web, I propose to use the following order of font face declaration aka font-family declaration.

Face declaration standard for Web print

Code: Select all: Web First Priority, User Choice, Last Resort UniBurma_Web, {UniBurma_*}, UniBurma

* Note: If you really desire special custom design such as UniBurma_FreeHand for design point, the you may re-order it to first priority then follow by the Web First Priority and Last Resort.

Code: Select all: User Choice, Web First Priority, Last Resort {UniBurma_*}, UniBurma_Web, UniBurma

Example html font tag

Code: Select all: <font face="UniBurma_Web, UniBurma_SansSerif, UniBurma"></font>

Example css font family

Code: Select all: <p style="font-family:UniBurma_Web, UniBurma_SansSerif, UniBurma;"></p>

Example bbcode tag

Code: Select all: [font=UniBurma_Web, UniBurma_SansSerif, UniBurma] [/font]

Follow up projects for chaining request:
- Burglish fontconv program and related js library (Mark)
- IDRO system (AK)
- Geeks Forum (ThetHtwe)

by **victor_lin21** » November 27th, 2007, 12:00 pm

I'm not sure, all our previous Burmese fonts have these. So far, I was on outline font. From today onward, I will start on extending Burmese Bitmap/Pixel font and Stroke font. As from quick look and reading, it seem, okay to construct Unicode map and UTN11 logic, as Opentype/AAT.

Not so fast thou..

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fontgen/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/palmfontconv/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pftedit/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitmapfont/
http://mensis.sourceforge.net/ [FF extension]

by **lynnhtat** » December 15th, 2007, 8:44 pm

စမ္းသပ္႓ခင္း uniburma

by **lynnhtat** » December 15th, 2007, 8:45 pm

စမ္းသပ္႓ခင္း uniburma_web_2

by **lynnhtat** » December 15th, 2007, 8:50 pm

web_2 is bigger=better.. but i couldnt see the difference after posting did you declared web_2 in source?
i'd enable both fonts in osx for viewing..