Font Modifiers

Signum supports 6 algorithmic font modifiers for every glyph:

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 following image illustrates the effect of the different bold modes on a glyph:

Bold Font ("Leicht" / "Normal", "Stark")

The black character is the original glyph, the gray characters define pixels that are on (ink’ed) additionally in each of the three modes.

----- (underlined)

----- 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%).