Andron

a classical yet contemporary text face

Andron HOME
I. The Concept of Andron
II. A Brief History of Andron
III. The package Andron Corpus TTF
   III.a The Contents of the font package
   III.b Licences available
IV. Specials: Andron PS fonts for Mac
   IV.a The Contents of the font package
   IV.b Licences available
V. Development Licence Agreement
VI. Projects using Andron
VII. Andron seen by others

Projects using Andron

The following projects are applying Andron as the exclusive or principal typeface. 

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Contemporary literature
Awarded!   2006 the Fracis edition received the prestigious ”Most Beautiful Books“ award (Schönste Bücher ) by the German Stiftung Buchkunst.  – Helmut Stabe used Andron also for composing the beautiful new “Alchemie – vor 1800” catalogue of Gerhard Gruber Antiquarian booksellers, Heilbronn (see www.antiquariat-gruber.de).

GALex: Polytonic Greek text in Andron 
The recent fascicle of the Greek and Arabic Lexicon has been produced based on Andron for its Latin and Greek parts. The volume shows in extenso Andron Corpus Regular Greek polytonic (very few: Greek Italics) alongside with Andron Corpus Italics for the English parts and Andron Corpus Regular (Latin) for all Arabic transcriptions. – The Glossarium Graeco-Arabicum is edited by Brill publ., Leiden (see http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=22443 ), editors are Gerhard Endreß of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and Dimitri Gutas of Yale University (US). The next fascicle to come has been anounced for spring 2007.

MUFI – Andron for medievalist scholars 
The interdisciplinary Medieval Unicode Font Initiative , headed by Odd Einar Haugen of Bergen University (Norway), is an informal network of scholars collaborating on the issue of getting Unicode more handy for medievalist’s purposes. Among the activities are a pending proposal for encoding special characters, publication of the MUFI recommendation (listing all characters neccessary for medievalist text editing) and providing of several fonts which are designed to meet MUFI’s requirements. – Andron has been applied as the default specimen font for character display in the MUFI recommendation. Furthermore, Andron has been considerably extended (and strengthened!) during the last two years a great deal backed by grants of Bergen University. (This is the place to adress a special GRATIA to Prof. Odd Einar Haugen! A.St.) 
If you wish to try out Andron you should go to the MUFI font page ! There you can download a special mufish version of Andron Regular for free. The updated version of  Andron Scriptor Web is now available! Please see that page for download and information.

Just published: Altnordische Philologie 
A comprehensive introductory handbook about old norse philology, covering Iceland and Norway, has now been published at de Gruyter’s. This new German edition of the Norwegian original Handbok i norrøn filologi (Odd Einar Haugen ed.) compiles the work of about a dozen of scholars from Europe and abroad. The volume (translation and composing: Astrid van Nahl, Bonn University) presents the reader with extensive use of Andron’s particular nordistic and medievalistic features as developed in collaboration with the MUFI project. So, for instance, Andron Runes have been developed in two different cuts (with and without serifs) to accomodate the needs of this ambitious edition.

Medieval Nordic Text Archive  (MENOTA)

Menota is a network of leading nordic archives, libraries and academic institutions, who collaborate to publish medieval texts from nordic manuscripts online. Under “Text Archive” a number of medieval sources is listed. By clicking [F] or [D] in the “Read” column you’ll get access to a complete online text representation of the source chosen – in Andron Corpus (if installed on your computer), which is the default font favoured by the programming of that website. Here you can watch Andron at work rendering the very particular typography of medieval nordic texts.

Letzte Änderung: 01.12.2007 10:54