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| Tiresias Screenfont
The Tiresias Screenfont was originally designed by a team led by Dr. John Gill, Chief Scientist for the Royal National Institute for the Blind. The RNIB developed the Tiresias Screenfont in response to a need for improving text for television subtitling. The DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) has adopted the Tiresias Screenfont as the standard font for the MHP (Multimedia Home Platform), which many set-top box and digital TV manufacturers are using as their standard development platform. The DVB is a Swiss-based industry organization representing one standard for digital TV, which has been adopted extensively in Europe.
The Tiresias Screenfont includes characters that are easy to distinguish from one another. Throughout the design process, the key factors that affect legibility were studied. These factors include character shapes, relative thickness of the character shapes, inter-character spacing, and aspect ratios that affect the maximum size at which the font can be used. This font has met with widespread approval. The design team is confident that this new typeface brings considerable improvement to the legibility of text on screens. Licensing Terms • Tiresias Screenfont, Full Character Set (PDF) • Languages Supported |
