I have made two OpenType fonts (not finished yet) you may download. I am releasing them under the GNU Public License. The sources are available as well. I appreciate feedback (a guide to my email address). However, nowadays I am so busy doing other things that I'm unlikely to be able to act on it. The GPL allows you to redistribute changed versions, which may be an interesting option when you find problems.

Legendum

Legendum is a typeface not unlike MS's Verdana. It has been made for optimal screen readibility. It is anti-aliased on Windows as well. It now contains all normal Latin characters as well as all Greek characters, plus punctuation. All are instructed. I use this permanently on my desktop, and have found it extremely nice to look at for longer stretches of time.

It has the OpenType features "kern" (kerning), "lnum" (lining numerals; it's got old-style numerals by default), "mark"/"mkmk" (mark positioning). It comes in two flavours: Legendum_legacy.otf has hundreds of precomposed characters (such as é) while Legendum.otf does not, but OpenType-aware OSes and/or applications may be able to produce them anyway. The file for the latter is a lot smaller though. Most of the Latin combined glyphs are there, and (I think) all of the Greek ones (including polytonic Greek).

Legendum sample
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Garogier

Garogier is a typeface not unlike Garamond (hence the name). It will have optical size through its instructions (i.e. at low sizes, also when it is used on a high-resolution device such as a printer, the characters are changed slightly to increase readablity). This is supported by Windows 98 and up (this includes 2000 and XP). Freetype does not support it (yet).

I have not supplied a hinted version for the moment though. The font has kerning through the OpenType feature "kern", supports ligatures ("liga"), both lining and old-style figures ("lnum") and small caps ("smcp"). If you are used to looking at Greek letters: I'd like to have some feedback on those before I go on to instruct them.

Garogier sample
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TestInstructions

TestInstructions is a font that provides a number of minimal testcases for TrueType instructions. You can test the behaviour of virtual machines with it. This is what it looks like at 12 pts (16 pixels) on Windows 2000:

TestInstructions sample
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