{"id":186,"date":"2013-04-24T15:37:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slantedhall.wordpress.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2025-08-12T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:44:08","slug":"ibm-1403-inspired-typeface-update-cyrillic-greek-hebrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/ibm-1403-inspired-typeface-update-cyrillic-greek-hebrew\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM 1403 inspired typeface update (Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy. As a break, I added a first pass at uppercase Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew to the <a href=\"http:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/an-ibm-1403-printer-inspired-typeface-in-progress\/\">IBM 1403 inspired typeface<\/a>. There are fun challenges in fitting these scripts into a fixed width (especially one set initially for the Latin letters). Cyrillic has wide letters; Hebrew has a few narrow letters. After the <a href=\"http:\/\/typosf.com\/\">TYPOSF<\/a> 2013 conference (<a href=\"http:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/19\/typosf-2013-conference-trip-report\/\">my trip report<\/a>), I incorporated some feedback from other type designers. (Thanks!) I still need to do a detailed review, along with a spacing check, since there&#8217;ve been many changes along the way. With that caveat, here&#8217;s a sample of the in-progress <em>1403 Vintage Mono<\/em>\u00a0all uppercase typeface. [N.B. The translations have not yet been verified, though the Russian is from a fun\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fit-msk.com\">dance workshop<\/a> I attended in Moscow.]\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"1403-vintage-mono-type-sample-72dpi.png\" src=\"http:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1403-vintage-mono-type-sample-72dpi1.png\" alt=\"1403 Vintage Mono Type Sample with Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew\" width=\"482\" height=\"273\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: 21 November 2013:<\/strong>\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/slantedhall.com\/fonts\/1403\"><em>1403 Vintage Mono Pro<\/em><\/a>\u00a0typeface has been released and is now available for licensing, going from 52 glyphs to over 1,500, supporting 140+ languages across Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew scripts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: 16 February 2016:\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/fonts\/1403\"><em>1403 Vintage Mono Pro<\/em><\/a>\u00a0typeface has been updated, extensively, now over 2,300 glyphs supporting 160+ languages. Check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/1403.slantedhall.com\/\">1403.slantedhall.com web specimen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1403.slantedhall.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"1403-print-samples.png\" src=\"http:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1403-print-samples3.png\" alt=\"1403 Vintage Mono Pro typeface specimen site\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreams.org\/staff\/composer\/\">Jeff Kellem<\/a>\u00a0(@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/composerjk\">composerjk<\/a>\u00a0\/ @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slantedhall\">slantedhall<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy. As a break, I added a first pass at uppercase Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew to the IBM 1403 inspired typeface. There are fun challenges in fitting these scripts into a fixed width (especially one set initially for the Latin letters). Cyrillic has wide letters; Hebrew has a few narrow letters. After the TYPOSF 2013 conference (my trip &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/ibm-1403-inspired-typeface-update-cyrillic-greek-hebrew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34],"tags":[45,47,51,54,56,59,60,61,69,96],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1403-vintage-mono-pro","category-typography","tag-computer-history","tag-cyrillic","tag-fonts","tag-greek","tag-hebrew","tag-ibm","tag-ibm-1401","tag-ibm-1403","tag-monospaced","tag-typeface"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1403-vintage-mono-type-sample-72dpi.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}