![]() ![]() Old style fonts are based on very traditional styles dating as far back as the late 15th century. The old and the new - different types of Serif fonts Old Style It is somewhat overused, and many books by typographers plead users to stay away from it. By the way, Helvetica is considered harmful by typographers. ![]() Notable sans serif fonts include Lucida sans, MS Comic Sans, Verdana, Myriad, Avant Garde, Arial, Century Gothic and Helvetica. For example, Microsoft touts Verdana as being readable at very small sizes on screen. The lack of detail in the font can provide it with more clarity. Another application that sans serif fonts have is as display fonts on computer screens, especially at small sizes. There are sans serif fonts that are readable enough to be well suited to documents that are supposed to be browsed / skimmed ( web pages, catalogues, marketting brochures ). One usually does not write a long book using a sans serif font for the body text. Sans serif fonts do not have these little hooks, so they have a starker appearance. There are many different types of serif fonts. Serif fonts are usually considered more readable than fonts without serifs. For example, the letter i in a font such as Times Roman has serifs protruding from the base of the i and the head of the i. Serifs are little hooks on the ends of characters. The most well known fixed width font is courier. Most of the fonts you will use are variable width, though fixed with can be useful also ( for example, all the example shell commands in this document are illustrated with a fixed with font ). This quality is desirable for something like a text editor or a computer console, but not desirable for the body text of a long document. The fixed width fonts look like typewriter text, because each character is the same width. Firstly, there are fixed width fonts, and variable width fonts. There are several classifications of typefaces. 3.1 Classifications of Typefaces Fixed versus variable width While this information is not essential, many font lovers will find it interesting. Font HOWTO: Fonts 102 - Typography Next Previous Contents
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