license: OFL payment: POOL url: http://www.ms-studio.com category: sans-serif subsets: menu,latin,latin-ext,cyrillic+latin,cyrillic-ext+latin,greek+latin,greek-ext+latin family: Anonymous Pro designer: Mark Simonson profile:

I started out as a graphic designer and illustrator in 1976. During the early part of my career I worked as an art director on a number of magazines and other publications including Metropolis (a Minneapolis weekly, 1977), Machete (a Minneapolis broadsheet, 1978-80), TWA Ambassador (an inflight magazine, 1979-81), Minnesota Monthly (Minnesota Public Radio’s regional magazine, 1979-85), and the Utne Reader (1984-88).

I was head designer and art director for Minnesota Public Radio (1981-85) and an art director for its sister company, Rivertown Trading Company (1992-2000). During that time, I designed over 200 audio packages, including most of Garrison Keillor’s, along with several hundred products (t-shirts, mugs, rugs, watches, etc.) for the Wireless, Signals, and other mail order catalogs.

I frequently did lettering as part of design projects I worked on. This was always my favorite part, so in 2000 I opened my own shop specializing in lettering and typography.

I’ve also been interested in typeface design since my college days. I started licensing fonts to FontHaus in 1992, and since starting my new business, stepped up my efforts in developing original typefaces. I now have more than 100 fonts on the market with many more to come.

If you have a lettering or font project you would like me to take on, contact me by email at mark@ms-studio.com or by phone at +1-651-307-7491.

# TODO 2010-12-04 DC Is having 2 names correct? Since the original designers don't have profiles, I think it's okay, but maybe MD is better? # originaldesigner: Multiple Designers originaldesigner: Susan Lesch, David Lamkins profiledescriptionlicense: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 profiledescriptionlicenseurl: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ approved: true description:

Anonymous Pro is a family of four \ fixed-width fonts designed especially with \ coding in mind. Characters that could be \ mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) \ have distinct shapes to make them easier to \ tell apart in the context of source code.

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Anonymous Pro also features an international, \ Unicode-based character set, with support \ for most Western and European Latin-based \ languages, Greek, and Cyrillic. It also \ includes special "box drawing" characters \ for those who need them.

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While Anonymous Pro looks great on Macs \ and Windows PCs with antialiasing enabled, \ it also includes embedded bitmaps for \ specific pixel sizes ("ppems" in font nerd \ speak) for both the regular and bold weight. \ (Since slanted bitmaps look pretty bad and \ hard to read at the supported sizes, I chose \ to use the upright bitmaps for the italics \ as well.) Bitmaps are included for these \ ppems: 10, 11, 12, and 13. See the usage \ notes below for info on what point sizes \ these ppems correspond to on Mac and Windows.

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Anonymous Pro is based on an earlier \ font, Anonymous™, which was my TrueType \ version of Anonymous 9, a freeware Macintosh \ bitmap font developed in the mid-'90s by \ Susan Lesch and David Lamkins. The bitmap \ version was intended as a more legible \ alternative to Monaco, the fixed-width \ Macintosh system font.

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Anonymous Pro differs from Anonymous™ \ and Anonymous 9 in a few key characters. \ While the earlier fonts had a one-story \ lowercase "a" like Monaco, Anonymous Pro \ features a two-story lowercase "a" to help \ distinguish it from the "o". In the earlier \ fonts, the slashed zero, designed to look \ different than the capital "O", goes the \ "wrong" way compared to most fonts that have \ this feature. Susan and David did this \ intentionally to distinguish it from the \ slashed capital "Ø" used in some languages. \ Some people thought this looked odd, so I \ put it the "right" way, and distinguish it \ from the "Ø" by keeping the slash inside \ the character.

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Another significant change was to \ adjust the size of the characters in \ relation to the point size. Anonymous™ \ was approximately two sizes larger than \ comparable fonts at the same point size. \ This was in keeping with the old Monaco \ font, but can be annoying when switching \ between fonts. Anonymous Pro has been \ adjusted so that it appears about the \ same size as comparable fonts set at \ the same point size. If you have been \ using Anonymous™, you will need to \ increase the point size to get the \ same appearance.

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Finally, unlike Anonymous™, Anonymous \ Pro is available in one universal \ TrueType format that will work on Mac \ OS X, Windows, and GNU/Linux.

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Anonymous Pro is distributed with \ the SIL Open Font License.

# TODO description.gr: # TODO description.ru: # font-optimizer$ ./subset.pl -v --licensesubst="SIL OFL 1.1" \ # --exclude="smcp,ordn,sups,sinf,subs,dlig,frac" \ # --chars="Anoymus PrКаилрцΕάεηικλν()" \ # A-R.ttf A-R.menu; # for family in anonymouspro; do # for font in `ls -1 $family/*ttf | cut -d. -f1`; do # for subset in \ # latin latin-ext \ # cyrillic+latin cyrillic-ext+latin \ # greek+latin greek-ext+latin; do # echo subset.py --null --nmr --roundtrip --namelist --script \ # --subset=$subset $font.ttf $font.$subset; # python tools/subset/subset.py --null --nmr --roundtrip --script \ # --subset=$subset $font.ttf $font.$subset > $font.$subset.log; # done; # done; # done;