Tiresias fonts

A GPL family of sans-serif fonts with the goal of improving legibility on information labels.

Description

Tiresias is a family of realist sans-serif typefaces that were designed for best legibility by people with impaired vision at the Scientific Research Unit of Royal National Institute of the Blind in London. The research basis of Tiresias Screenfont’s legibility claims have been called into question.

Tiresias is the font used in subtitles for digital terrestrial television (DVB-T) in the UK and the Sky Digital satellite service (DVB-S) targeting the UK and Ireland.

The family includes

• Tiresias Infofont – for information labels, optimized for maximum legibility at a distance of 30–100 cm.
• Tiresias Keyfont – for labeling the tops of keys of keyboards, PIN pads, appliances, remote controls (features exaggerated punctuation marks)
• Tiresias LPfont – for large-print publications
• Tiresias PCfont – for raster displays
• Tiresias Screenfont – for television subtitling and on-screen user interfaces
• Tiresias Signfont – a more open spacing for use on signs

In late 2007, all Tiresias fonts except Tiresias Screenfont were released under the GNU General Public License version 3.[1]

(The description above is used under a CC-BY-SA license from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias_%28typeface%29)

Characteristics

Homepage	Format & features	License	Review reference	Koji page	pkgdb page
http://www.tiresias.org/fonts/index.htm	TTF	GPL 3 with Font Exception: http://www.tiresias.org/fonts/fonts_download.htm#licence	④	⑤	⑥

Style					Faces					Scripts
Sans		Serif		Other	R	B	I	BI	Other	Latin	Greek	Cyrillic	Other
Variable	Monospace	Variable	Monospace
✘		✘			✘	✘	✘	✘	②				③

Caveats

1. None known.

Additional information

N/A

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