What is the name of the default font?
What is the name of the default font?
I really like it, whatever it is.
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Here's a quote from Bob Pritchett from during the beta:
Ben said:The default text font is "Athelas", from Type-Together. (http://www.type-together.com/Athelas)
This font should be getting even better, with some improved hinting and
wider character support for diacritics, etc. before the release.The UI font is a custom variant of Alber, from MoreType. (http://moretype.co.uk/)
These fonts were chosen for various reasons:
1. They're awesome.
2. They have rich support for OpenType features. I hope you'll
notice (or rather, feel the subtle beauty of) the use of OldStyle
numerals (digits the dip below the baseline), Small Caps, and even fi
and fl ligatures in the books.3. They have excellent (and still to get better) support for
diacrtics and other complex characters we need to display
transliteration of Hebrew and other languages. You should see fewer
"ugly fonts" in the middle of lexicon entries, etc.We have licensed these fonts for embedding in the application, so
they only work inside Logos 4. If you want to use them in your word
processor, you can purchase copies online from various font vendors.It tooks us a long time to identify great fonts that met the technical and licensing requirements. Thanks for noticing!
MacBook Pro (2019), ThinkPad E540
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Todd Phillips said:
Here's a quote from Bob Pritchett from during the beta:
Thank you Todd. Sounds really interesting. I like the "feel" of the fonts also very much.
Bohuslav
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Todd Phillips said:
We have licensed these fonts for embedding in the application, so
they only work inside Logos 4. If you want to use them in your word
processor, you can purchase copies online from various font vendors.That is a bit unfortunate. I like to see the same font in all my applications -- Georgia up til now. Setting the font in L4 to anything except "default" goobers some of the symbols in books like NTSK -- as in http://community.logos.com/forums/t/28449.aspx.
I was going to post to the thread you quoted from but I couldn't find it.
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Ken F Hill said:
That is a bit unfortunate. I like to see the same font in all my applications -- Georgia up til now. Setting the font in L4 to anything except "default" goobers some of the symbols in books like NTSK -- as in http://community.logos.com/forums/t/28449.aspx.
You could purchase Athelas yourself if you want to use it in other apps. As your experience shows, most fonts don't have the character set support needed for a complex text-oriented application like Logos.
Ken F Hill said:I was going to post to the thread you quoted from but I couldn't find it.
The thread was in a private forum that was only open to pre-release beta testers.
MacBook Pro (2019), ThinkPad E540
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Todd Phillips said:
You could purchase Athelas yourself if you want to use it in other apps.
It is quite pricey. It is a gorgeous font, but it has some problems with irregular baseline due to hinting issues, as I've noted in this thread: http://community.logos.com/forums/t/29162.aspx (see the other thread that Bradley links to in his reply for the explanation of why the problem is there). Hopefully the font makers will fix it at some point. I do find the alignment problems quite distracting when reading all caps headings in Logos.
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