Markus> We need a few heroes who start the TrueType equivalent of the
    Markus> Unifont and misc-fixed projects. Once you set up reasonably
    Markus> pleasant style guide lines, there will surely be lots of
    Markus> volunteers to help. In particular, don't be afraid of scanning in
    Markus> and magnifying pleasant existing fonts from paper and use these as
    Markus> starting points for your glyphs. That's what many font designers
    Markus> do. Knuth copied pages from his early books onto millimeter paper
    Markus> when he started developping Computer Modern.

Perhaps someone can start with the Code2000 or Code2001 fonts.  I haven't
looked at them in a long time, but they seemed reasonably clean last time I
looked at them.

    Markus> Install a copy and find out how much time it costs you to do a
    Markus> pleasant looking ASCII/Hiragana on-screen font and then ask for
    Markus> help with the other scripts. I might find time to contribute parts
    Markus> of the math section, for instance.

PFAEdit is indeed a cool tool.
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