字体介绍

捷克设计师Oldrich Menhart（1897-1962）一生致力于字体创作。他是一位书法家、刻字艺术家及字体设计师，已经拥有二十多款字体了。Monotype字体Menhart是他的第二款设计。
Menhart于20世纪30年代初期开始设计，并于1934年将其最终作品交给Monotype Drawing Office。第一次裁切的尺寸是14 Didot（Didot点是传统的欧洲字体测量系统，大致相当于当今的数字字体通用的点系统）。14D字体后面还有18D和24D，这表明该设计最适合显示工作。然而，后来应Monotype客户的要求，又根据相同的主设计图切割出了10D。
Menhart的设计轻盈而开放，颜色均匀，带有轻微的方形感。”由于捷克字母包含15个重音字母，因此Menhart将这些变音符号纳入到他的设计中，而不是事后才想到。用Menhart设置的带重音的正文具有其他字体所没有的内聚性。
Monotype最新数字版本的Menhart是自铸排版字体以来的第一次复兴。Menhart Display基于原始的Monotype绘图，是为文本大小创建的一个稍粗的、间距经过重新排列的版本。这两个版本都提供了OpenType格式的全部功能，例如自动插入老式风格数字、连字以及小型大写字母。除英语之外，扩展字符集还支持大多数中欧和许多东欧语言。
Menhart的终生目标之一是通过绘制独特的捷克斯洛伐克文学作品字体来分享他的捷克文化的丰富性。用他的话说：“我认为一款捷克风格的字体首先来自于它的设计精神，这赋予它自己独有的'特征'，而不是装饰性的构图，更不是创作的地理位置。” Menhart的字体体现了他的价值观。如今，Menhart Pro和Menhart Display Pro抓住了这一永恒设计的独特个性，大大扩展了它的使用范围。 ”

Czech designer Oldrich Menhart (1897-1962) devoted his life to making letters. He was a calligrapher, lettering artist, and typeface designer with over twenty faces to his credit. The Monotype typeface, Menhart, was the second of his designs.
Menhart began work on the design in the early 1930s and turned over his final artwork to the Monotype Drawing Office in 1934. The first size cut was 14 Didot (Didot points are the traditional European system of type measure, and are roughly equivalent to the point system commonly used by today's digital fonts). The 14D font was followed by 18D and 24D, indicating that the design was considered most suitable for display work. However, a 10D size was later cut from the same master drawings at the request of a Monotype customer.
Menhart's design was light and open, with an even color and a slight squareness" to its round shapes. Because the Czech alphabet has 15 accented letters, Menhart included these diacritics as an integral part of his design, not as an afterthought. As a result, accented copy set in Menhart has a cohesive quality rarely seen in other typefaces.
Monotype's new digital release of Menhart is the first revival since the hot metal fonts were cut. Menhart Display is based on the original Monotype drawings, while a slightly heavier, re-spaced version has been created for text sizes. Both versions offer the full capabilities of the OpenType format, such as the automatic insertion of old style figures, ligatures and small caps. In addition to English, the extended character set supports most Central European and many Eastern European languages.
One of Menhart's lifelong goals was to share the richness of his Czech culture by drawing typefaces that uniquely served Czechoslovakia literature. In his words: "I believe that a Czech style of type comes above all from the spirit in which it was designed, which gives it its 'signature,' and not so much from decorative composition, and even less from the geographic location of its creation." The typeface Menhart is a tribute to his values. Now, Menhart Pro and Menhart Display Pro capture the unique personality of this timeless design while greatly extending its range of use. "