The Parkhurst TrueType Fonts

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 4, 2004

The Parkhurst TrueType Fonts
Designed by Steve Parkhurst in Fontographer

This attached diagram shows an excerpt from the textbook
SignoEscritura, by Steve and Dianne Parkhurst:

SignoEscritura
http://signwriting.org/spain/lecciones/SignoEscritura/signo002.html

As you can see, the symbols in the literature look very nice. The
SignWriting symbols do not have the jagged symbols of SignWriter DOS.
Instead, Steve designed his own TrueType fonts, and created these
beautiful looking pages...Meanwhile Steve types and publishes books
with SignWriter DOS too...like the 150 page novel typed in Spanish Sign
Language ...that volume was so large, that the typing techniques of
SignWriter DOS were very important, and when those pages are printed in
postscript, from SignWriter DOS, the symbols are smoothed and look
better than they do on the screen...so that is why SignWriter DOS was
used to type novels...but the TrueType certainly is lovely, isn't
it?....

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