Font document
Interstate
final sizes/ specifications used:
had been used for:
- slide-in, system font text information (eliminated)
proposed use:
- blocked capitals for top clip selection bar (i.e. clip 1, clip 2, etc.)
- blocked capitals for bottom functionality bar (instructions, quit, etc.)
- blocked capitals for category heading graphics (i.e. filmic technique)
current:
- had been pixellated and bit-mapped, got Postscript version
remaking category heading graphics in Interstate
- changing category headings from Gil Sans Bold to Interstate
Gil Sans Bold
sizes/ specifications used:
current:
- svo time trigger graphics
had been used for:
- category heading graphics (i.e. filmic technique)
- incidental text in editing exercise graphics
proposed use:
- replace its use with Interstate
current:
- changing category headings from Gil Sans Bold to Interstate
Helvetica
sizes/ specifications used:
had been used for:
- text on subject-based time triggers
- small 'click here to continue' text at opening screen
- used as a general stand-in font during prototype development
proposed use:
- replace its use with normal case Interstate (looks sufficiently different from blocked capitals)
current:
- changing time trigger and editing exercise graphics from Helvetica to Interstate
Skia
sizes/ specifications used:
had been used for:
- bitmapped text within instructional overlay
proposed use:
- unchanged
current:
- making font into a cast member in Director, to ensure it is included with Projector
- problems using the current version of font to generate graphical text (symbols do not correspond to keys pressed)
- but when font is installed on the system, currect characters are generated in Director