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| x Monospace font |
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Consolas |
A monospaced font, also called a fixed-width or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters each occupy the same amount of space. This contrasts to variable-width fonts, where the letters differ in size to one another.
The first monospaced...
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| Courier | |||
| Andale Mono | |||
| Nimbus Mono L | |||
| ProFont | |||
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| x Dingbat |
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Webdings |
A dingbat is an ornament, character or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament" or "printer's character".
The term continued to be used in the computer industry to describe fonts that had symbols and shapes...
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| x Sans-serif |
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Tahoma |
In typography, a sans-serif or sans serif typeface is one that does not have the small features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. The term comes from the Latin word sans, meaning "without".
In print, sans-serif fonts are more typically used for...
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| Verdana | |||
| Avenir | |||
| FHWA Series fonts | |||
| Johnston | |||
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| x Serif |
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Fette Fraktur |
In typography, serifs are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface that has serifs is called a serif typeface (or seriffed typeface). A typeface without serifs is called sans-serif, from...
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| ITC Benguiat | |||
| Perpetua | |||
| Corona | |||
| Minchō | |||
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| x Slab serif |
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Courier |
In typography, a slab serif (also called mechanistic, square serif or Egyptian) typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. Serif terminals may be either blunt and angular (Rockwell), or rounded (Courier). Slab...
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| Clarendon | |||
| Ionic No. 5 | |||
| Egyptienne | |||
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| x Calligraphy |
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Folkard |
Calligraphy (from Greek κάλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφή graphẽ "writing") is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of writing (Mediavilla 1996: 17). A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in...
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| x Symbol |
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Bookshelf Symbol 7 |
A symbol is something such as an object, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention. For example, a red octagon may stand for "STOP". On maps, crossed sabres may...
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| x Monospace | Fixedsys Excelsior |
Monospace is a monospaced Unicode font, developed by George Williams.
This font contains 2,862 glyphs. It includes characters in the following unicode ranges: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, IPA Extensions,...
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| x Antiqua |
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Catull |
Antiqua typefaces are those designed between about 1470 and 1600, specifically those by Nicolas Jenson and the Aldine roman commissioned by Aldus Manutius and cut by Francesco Griffo. Antiqua letterforms were modelled on a synthesis of Roman...
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| x Script | Andy Bold |
Script typefaces are based upon the varied and often fluid stroke created by handwriting. They are organized into highly regular formal types similar to cursive writing and looser, more casual scripts.
A majority of formal scripts are based upon the...
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| FIG Script | |||
| Waltograph | |||
| Kaufmann | |||
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| x Computer font |
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Curlz |
A computer font (or fount) is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats. Although the term font first referred to a set of metal type sorts in one style and size, since the 1990s most fonts are...
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| x Fantasy |
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Papyrus |
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic...
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| x Didoni |
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Computer Modern |
Didone is a typeface classification recognized by the Association Typographique Internationale (AtypI). It is characterized by slab-like serifs without brackets, vertical orientation of weight axes, strong contrast between thick and thin lines, and...
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| Bell | |||
| Didot | |||
| Bodoni | |||
| x Blackletter |
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Fletcher |
Blackletter, also known as Gothic script or Gothic minuscule, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 to 1500. It continued to be used for the German language until the 20th century. Fraktur is a notable script of this...
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| x Japanese gothic typeface |
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Microsoft YaHei |
Gothic typefaces (Japanese: ゴシック体, Goshikku-tai; Korean: 고딕체, Godik-che) are a type style characterised by strokes of even thickness, reduced curves, and lack of decorations, akin to sans serif styles in Western typography. It is the second most...
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| x Humanist sans-serif | Gills Sans |
Humanist sans-serif fonts first appeared in the early twentieth century. They are characterized by the presence of the hand, an uppercase similar in proportion to the monumental Roman capitals, a lowercase similar in form to the Carolingian script,...
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| Verdana | |||
| FF Meta | |||
| Gill Sans | |||
| x Grotesque sans-serif | |||
| x Neo-grotesque sans-serif | |||
| x Geometric sans-serif | Futura | ||
| Eurostile | |||
| Kabel | |||
| Handel Gothic | |||
| Bank Gothic | |||
| x Old Style Serif | Garamond | ||
| x Realist sans-serif | Akzidenz Grotesk | ||
