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Tower orientation font
Posted by dontbugme in
5 Oct 2012 — 12:06am
5 Oct 2012 — 12:06am
Is there anyone that know of a font that allows to write in tower orientation, in software that does not allow vertical text ?
Basically this means:
* write text horizontally, left->right
* rotate media 90 degrees right
* read text top to down, like in Chinese
* writing is English and numbers
So each character should be rotated 90 degrees in it's own cell.
The style is not really important.
I have not been able to find such font. Any input ?
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5 Oct 2012 — 12:27am
I can help you with a clean sans font which I would just customize to meet your briefing.
Quick delivery, moderate fee. Contact me off-list: asA)signographieDde
5 Oct 2012 — 1:10am
@Andreas
passed on your contact details to client. May choose to contact you separately. Thanks for replying.
Btw: is the correct term "tower orientation" ? Have not found much related to this topic.
5 Oct 2012 — 9:50am
I'm sure Andreas can do it quickly and well. If you'd like a "second opinion" please do consider my type design services as well:
hpapazian at gmail dot com
http://themicrofoundry.com/
BTW what you want to end up with is usually simply called "vertical setting", but I'm not aware of a term for a font where the glyphs are rotated 90 degrees. Unless it's an extreme case of Rotalics! :-)
http://typographica.org/on-typography/a-fruitful-discomfort-the-face-of-...
hhp
5 Oct 2012 — 3:55pm
I think I once saw a faux-Chinese font set up this way, with one case as regular left-to-right and the other with the glyphs turned a quarter to the left so they would read top-to-bottom. Can't remember which or whose font it was, though.
Edit #1: I found it: Kingthings Conundrum. Lower case is turned.
6 Oct 2012 — 8:44am
Yes, I know of one. What do you want this information for if the design doesn’t matter?
8 Oct 2012 — 5:01am
On my system, I have a couple of fonts that use the OpenType tag 'vert', or an additional/ supplemental/ newer(?) implementation, 'vrt2', to implement 'faux-vertical' characters.
All of them are Adobe's CJK fonts:
Adobe Fangsong Std
Adobe Heiti Std
Adobe Kaiti Std
Adobe Song Std
and (most likely) came free with my installation of Adobe InDesign. A few Windows system fonts contain selected symbols only. SimSun, for example, contains rotated brackets, braces, and curly quotes.
The odd thing, however, is that these characters are rotated clockwise:
That means that applying the feature to a string "hello" will result in (vertically read) "olleh"! Then again maybe I'm missing some subtlety of vertical writing.