Font Modifiers
Signum supports 6 algorithmic font modifiers for every glyph:

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.

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)

PRN24.PRG
)The following image illustrates the effect of the different bold modes on a glyph:

The black character is the original glyph, the gray characters define pixels that are on (ink’ed) additionally in each of the three modes.
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(underlined)
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underlines a glyph.
Kursiv (italic)
Kursiv modifies the glyph to lean forward 1:4
Gross (tall)
Gross increases the height of a glyph by 1.5 (150%).
Klein (small)
Klein reduces the height of a glyph by 0.75 (75%).