M Miama

a small introduction to the free font Miama by Linus Romer, August , 
Contents 1 About the font
Miama is one of the cheapest script fonts
1 About the font 1 out there – it is free (under terms of the
OFL). Miama is not complete yet and it is
2 Installing 2
not professional at all. is font has first
3 Examples with different alphabets 2 been presented in January  aer half a
. Latin alphabet . . . . . . . . .  year’s work. e glyphs are based on the
. Greek alphabet . . . . . . . . .  many handwrien leers of my girlfriend.
ere are currently more than ’ glyphs
4 Dos and Don’ts 3 available, supporting all European languages
. Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . .  based on Latin, Cyrillic or Greek alphabets.
. Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Among them are also some ligatures and or-
. Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . .  namental glyphs. e most recent published
. Font Format . . . . . . . . . .  version of Miama is . (note that version .
was named ., unfortunately).
5 About this document 3 Every single glyph has been drawn by
myself using the free font editor Fontforge.
Whenever you have suggestions for improve-
ments of existing glyphs or have discovered
errors, please feel free to post this errors on
the Open Font Library as comments to the
font Miama. As the font is still in progress,

Figure 1: The capital leer E viewed in Fontforge

it is quite likely that your documents using

Miama look very different aer a font up-
date. In particular, capital leers have been
  Installing

changed heavily inbetween versions . and noch vier Söhne und drei Töchter hae. Groß-
. but I always try to only touch the look and
feel of glyphs if possible.
vater und Großmuer waren von altem Schrot
und Korn, beide viereckicht und rüstig früh und
spät. Er war Meister in Feld und Stall. Das
erstere bebaute er mit großem Fleiße, aber nach
alter Mode, nahm lieber ein Klafter Naturgras,
dessen Same ihn nichts kostete, als drei Klafter
Figure 2: The capital leer M of version 0.2 com-
Pflanzengras, zu dem er den Samen häe kaufen
pared to the same glyph in version 0.31
müssen. Aus dem Stalle zog er die Zinsen der
schuldigen Kapitale. Er mästete alle Jahre et-
2 Installing was; aber dazu brauchte er lieber das Korn aus
dem Speicher, als daß er mehr Erdäpfel geplanzt
Unpack the miama.zip file wherever
you wish to. en copy Miama.otf (or häe als sein Vater.
Miama.ttf at your choice, see also sec-
tion .) to your font directory, which looks
probably like this: 3.2 Greek alphabet

Αά και τον μακροσκελή αυτόν ορισμόν ο

C:\Windows\Fonts Windows XP,Vista,
~/.fonts Ubuntu, Debian Σωκράτης απορρίπτει ως εσφαλμένον, διότι
συνοψίζων αυτόν λέγει ότι το ευσεβές λοιπόν
3 Examples with different είναι κάποια επιστήμη του να εύχεται κανείς
alphabets και να θυσιάζη και ότι το μεν να θυσιάζη
e examples used in the following are parts σημαίνει να χαρίζη κανείς εις τους θεούς, το
of Der Bauernspiegel by Jeremias Gohelf and
Euthyphro by Plato. δε να εύχεται σημαίνει να ζητή από αυτούς,
ώστε το ευσεβές θα ήτο τότε επιστήμηn ζητήσεως
3.1 Latin alphabet
και δόσεως, ζητεί δε κανείς ό,τι χρειάζεται
Ich bin geboren in der Gemeinde Unverstand, και χαρίζει ό,τι χρειάζονται οι άοι, άρα η
in einem Jahre, welches man nicht zählte nach
ευσέβεια είναι κάποια εμπορική τέχνη μεταξύ
Christus. Mein Vater war der älteste Sohn eines
Bauern, der einen ziemlich großen Hof besaß und θεών και ανθρώπων.


  Dos and Don’ts

4 Dos and Don’ts 4.3 Spacing

4.1 Purpose Do not use any condensed nor extended spac-

ing! Miama lives from connected strokes,
Use Miama for main titles, short poems, which are killed as soon as you change spac-
greeting cards, wedding stuff et cetera. But ing.
please do not consider using it for longer
texts, especially not for scientific texts.

Figure 5: Extended spacing of 5pt and normal

is could be a spacing

title of a bk 4.4 Font Format

Miama comes in two formats, .ttf and .otf.
Please consider using the superior .otf ver-
sion instead of .ttf whenever prossible.
Figure 3: Example usage of the font Miama However, some text processing programs do
not support OTF. e TTF fonts are supported
by nearly any program and any OS.
4.2 Size
Miama is a very small typeface compared to 5 About this document
other fonts. is is due to the very large as-
cenders and descenders. So if you want to e whole document is based on very, very
look Miama as a font of pt, choose –pt. free soware.
Also keep in mind, that Miama then still looks Typeseing: e pdf–File was directly cre-
quite light, so you want probably resize it ated with XƎTEX, which comes along
even more for titles. with every TEX–system.

oo ff
Fonts: e embedded fonts are all licensed
under the Open Font License OFL or
part of TEX. e main fonts are called
Linux Libertine and Linux Biolinum, the
funny looking font is Miama.

Graphics: All of the graphics have been cre-

ated by me with free soware. e
Figure 4: The glyphs o and f of Linux Libertine wave on the titlepage has been done
compared to Miama at the same point with METAPOST (which is also comes
size along with TEXLive) and matched to-
gether with the «Miama» characters in


  About this document

Inkscape. Here is the METAPOST

source:

u=4mm;
beginfig(1);
z1=(u,29u);
z2=(10u,34u);
z3=(0,36u);
z4=(6u,34u);
z5=(8u,26u);
z6=(u,22u);
z7=(12u,13u);
z8=(3u,18u);
z9=(33u,9u);
z10=(12u,20u);
z11=(40u,10u);
z12=(42u,0);
pickup pencircle scaled 0.5pt;
for i=0 step 0.01 until 1:
draw (i[z3,z4])..(i[z5,z6])
..(i[z7,z8])..(i[z9,z10])
..(i[z11,z12]);
endfor
endfig;
end