Font Modifiers

Signum supports 6 algorithmic font modifiers for every glphy:

• Breit (wide)
• Fett (bold)
• ----- (underlined)
• Kursiv (italic)
• Gross (tall)
• Klein (small)

Font Modifier Output

Modifiers are selected from a toolbar at the bottom and can be freely combined, except for the contradictory tall & small, which increase and decrease glyph height respectively.

Font Modifier Toolbar (SIGNUM2.PRG)

Breit (wide)

Breit doubles the width of a glyph.

Fett (bold)

The 24-needle printer driver has three modes for computing bold glyphs:

• leicht (Light)
• normal
• stark (strong)

Bold Font Printer Mode (PRN24.PRG)

The bold text in normal mode looks like the following:

Bold Font ("Normal")

----- (underlined)

----- underlines a glyph.

Kursiv (italic)

Kursiv modifies the glyph to lean forward 1:4

Gross (tall)

Klein increases the height of a glyph.

Klein (small)

Klein reduces the height of a glyph.