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Tiresias

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Tiresias is a Bitstream font family with 10 styles priced from $24.75.

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Tiresias Infofont

Tiresias Infofont

$24.75

Tiresias Infofont Z

Tiresias Infofont Z

$24.75

Tiresias LPfont

Tiresias LPfont

Tiresias LPfont Italic

Tiresias LPfont Bold

$30.00

Tiresias PCfont

Tiresias PCfont

$24.75

Tiresias PCfont Z

Tiresias PCfont Z

$24.75

Tiresias Signfont

Tiresias Signfont

$24.75

Tiresias Signfont Z

Tiresias Signfont Z

$24.75

Tiresias Screenfont

Tiresias Screenfont

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: January 15th, 2001
Designed by: John Gill
Contained in Categories: Legible, Sans Serif
Design owned by: Bitstream
MyFonts Keywords: blind, legible, lowres, sansserif [suggest]

Tiresias

Tiresias was designed for subtitling by Dr. John Gill from the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), in the United Kingdom.

The Tiresias font is designed to have characters that are easy to distinguish from each other, especially important for the visually impaired. The following key factors were considered during the design process: character shapes, relative weight of character stokes, intercharacter spacing, and aspect ratios that affect the maximum size at which the type could be used.

The benefits of the Tiresias font are greatest on lower resolution displays, such as televisions, train and airline information terminals, and low resolution displays on wireless communication and handheld devices.

InfoFont is for printed instructions on public terminals where legibility is the primary consideration; these instructions are often read at a distance of 30 to 70 cm. Infofont is not designed for large quantities of text.

The Tiresias LPfont is a large print typeface specifically designed for people with low vision. Large print publications should be designed to specifically help with reading problems, and should not just be an enlarged version of the ordinary print. The Tiresias LPfont family, made up of roman, italic, and bold weights, was designed to address and solve these issues.

The RNIB developed PCfont for people with low vision to use on computer screens. It is designed for use at larger sizes only. PCfont includes delta hinting technology in the font to ensure pixel-perfect display at key sizes.

Signfont is for fixed (not internally illuminated) signage. The recommended usage is white or yellow characters on a matt dark background.

Note that the “Z” versions have slashed zeroes, and are identical in all other respects.

Tiresias himself is a figure from Greek mythology, a blind prophet from Thebes.

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