AMS Euler

Infobox font
name = AMS Euler


style = Script
date = 1983
creator = Hermann Zapf
Donald Knuth
foundry = Linotype
sample = |

AMS Euler is an upright cursive typeface, commissioned by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and designed and created by Hermann Zapf with the assistance of Donald Knuth. It tries to emulate a mathematician's style of handwriting mathematical entities on a blackboard, which is upright rather than italic. It blends very well with other typefaces made by Hermann Zapf, such as Palatino, Aldus and Melior, but very badly with the default TeX font Computer Modern. All the alphabets were executed with the computer-assisted design system Metafont developed by Knuth. Work on the design took place 1980-81 with copyright by American Mathematical Society in 1983.

The AMS Euler typeface is named after Leonhard Euler.

First implemented in METAFONT, AMS Euler was first used in the book "Concrete Mathematics", co-authored by Knuth, which was dedicated to Euler. This volume also saw the debut of Knuth's Concrete Roman font, designed to complement AMS Euler. The typeface is now also available in other formats, including PostScript Type 1 and TrueType.

The family consist of seven alphabets:
*AMS Euler Tekst (1980–81) 1983
*AMS Euler Greek (1980–81) 1983
*AMS Euler Fraktur (1980–81) 1983
*AMS Euler Text Bold (1980–81) 1983
*AMS Euler Greek Bold (1980–81) 1983
*AMS Euler Script Bold (1980–81) 1983
*AMS Euler Fraktur Bold (1980–81) 1983

References

*Donald E. Knuth and Hermann Zapf. "AMS Euler — A New Typeface for Mathematics". Scholarly Publishing 20 (1989), 131–157. "Reprinted as chapter 17 of the book "Digital Typography".
*Donald E. Knuth. "Typesetting Concrete Mathematics", TUGboat 10 (1989), 31–36, 342. "Reprinted as chapter 18 of the book "Digital Typography".
*"Hermann Zapf and His Design Philosophy — Selected Articles and Lectures on Calligraphy and Contemporary Developments in Type Design, with Illustrations and Bibliographical Notes, and a Complete List of His Typefaces", Society of Typographic Arts Chicago (1987).

External links

*" [http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/amsfonts/doc/amsfndoc.ps User's Guide to AMSFonts] ", version 2.2d January 2002, PostScript document, 34 pages, file size: about 1.5 MB, which includes a section on the history of AMS Euler fonts.