From: "Alex Taylor"    
      
   On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 17:38:33 UTC, NOSPAM.sean@kd5col.info (Sean Dennis) wrote:   
      
   >  AT> Workplace Sans 0.81 has been released.   
   >    
   > Thanks for all of your hard work.  Your font is much easier to read!   
      
   Thanks.   
      
   BTW, some people have expressed reservations about the "heaver" look of   
   version 0.8x compared to earlier versions.  I made that change for a    
   number of reasons, not least of which was because it looked incredibly   
   washed-out and illegible at 96dpi under FreeType.   
      
   Some remarks about this seem in order... versions up to around 0.3 used    
   a 60upm (units per em) stroke width.  Subsequent versions up until 0.7    
   inclusive changed this to 50upm.  This looked great in Presentation Manager   
   at 9pt, but was barely legible when antialiased at small sizes, and very    
   strange at large sizes.   
      
   Version 0.8 changed the "regular" width to 80upm, which is more or less    
   consistent with other regular-width fonts.  This does have the effect of    
   making it look less like WarpSans, but does make it much more readable in   
   a wider range of circumstances.  Besides, there's the bitmapped versions   
   now for people who want the WarpSans "look".   
      
   At the same time, I made a new "light" weight which is closer to the   
   0.7 style (back up to 60upm instead of 50).  I also partially implemented    
   a "book" weight at 70upm just for comparison, but I never released that.   
      
   For the next major version (0.9?) I'm strongly considering making the   
   70upm version (Book) into the "regular" width, with some major design   
   improvements.  I've got a test version working here and it looks pretty   
   good IMHO.  Not sure if I'd continue maintaining the 80upm version or   
   not.  I may also update the older 50upm width for the new styling and   
   make that available as well (as "Thin" or something).   
      
   Of course, if you use the bitmapped releases, all this is pretty much   
   moot...   
      
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   Alex Taylor   
   Fukushima, Japan   
   http://www.socis.ca/~ataylo00   
      
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