The master’s thesis’ area of research is digitalisation of a human manuscript with an emphasis on designing several variations of a single individual letter. The chosen font is the manuscript of dramaturg and translator Eva Mahkovic. For a better understanding of letter-design the development of Roman script and of an individual human manuscript were researched. In typography, human manuscript digitalisation is a common phenomenon. However, as the digitalisation is usually designed with a single variation per letter, it does not possess the main characteristic of a human manuscript, where a single letter may be represented by several variations. The development of OpenType font format and its function-writing ability, which the text processor is following contributed to the development of new smart fonts with wide usage options. Our research into commercially available smart fonts has shown abilities of the OpenType font format and encouraged us to research the structure of the function best suited for our task.
Several pages of a sample manuscript represented the basis for the formation off individual letters of the digitalised manuscript. Letter formation and choosing an appropriate number of a single letter variations has been a parallel process to planning a structure of an OpenType function that would enable alternation among several variations of single individual letters. The result is the eva font: it includes 1243 characters, it is designed as an imitation of the original manuscript and (with the use of OpenType functions) is able to alternate among several variations of single individual letters without the user’s intervention.
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