History of Western typography
Famous Names in Typography
Family Classifications of Type
Roman type
Roman square capitals,
Optima,
Trajan
Carolingian minuscule Pfeffer Mediæval
France Venice
Jenson
Venetian
Bembo,
Centaur
French
Garamond,
Sabon
English
Caslon
England
Baskerville
Italy Modern
Bodoni
IdentiFont Free Fonts Cardo,
Sorts Mill Goudy,
Hack,
Cutive Mono (serif),
Fira Mono (upper I, lower L, zero),
Fira Sans (lower L g many weights),
Droid Sans (upper I g no-italic),
Brick.IM fonts Cardo, EB Garamond,
Sorts Mill Goudy,
similar to Hoefler,
switching from Times New Roman
Font Samples
identifont identify fonts, similar font finder
List of all available features, W shape, W serifs, J height, e slanted cross stroke (Aurelia[more modern], True Golden, Cloister, ITC Golden Type, Italian Old Style, Veronese, Parkinson)
Browser:
Serif: Sorts Mill Goudy
Sans: Fira Sans
Mono: Courier Code
Serif fonts choices:
Mac: Hoefler Text, Georgia (compatibility), Times New Roman (compatibility)
Windows & Linux: Sorts Mill Goudy (ligature, kerning, WfJfi1, no bold),
Cardo (display, ligature, kerning not in Office, WeJfi1, rbbii)
Office: Constantia (ligature, kerning, J, rbbii), Times New Roman (ligature 'Th', kerning), Garamond (WJ, no ligature), Californian FB (e, no ligature, rbi), Sylfaen (ligature, only r), Georgia (compatibility, ligature, no kerning), Source Serif Pro (x-height), Gabriola (kerning, ligature, script)
Sans-Serif fonts choices:
use Serif fonts, kerning, ligature,
Candara (no J, for office online, outlook),
Corbel (no J),
Segoe UI (no J),
Fira Sans (no fi),
Noto Sans,
Droid fonts, , Tahoma (compatibility, no ligature), Verdana (compatibility, no ligature)
Monospace fonts choices:
Mac: Menlo, Monaco, Courier New (compatibility)
Windows & Linux: Courier Code (serif), Source Code Pro, Andale Mono, Courier New (serif, compatibility), Consolas,
Nimbus Mono L (serif),
Cutive Mono (serif Google)
Office: Courier New (serif, compatibility)
Cardo is the best,
large and contains ancient characters
Equivalent size:
Hoefler Text 17pt (Crimson Text), Palatino 16pt (Tinos),
Cardo 16pt, Times New Roman 16pt, Garamond 18pt (EB Garamond 16pt), Centaur 19pt
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| Times New Roman |
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| Cloister (humanist Jenson) e slanted cross stroke |
Pangram
Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs
The State of Web Type - Kerning, Ligature
Microsoft Core fonts for the Web:
Font rasterization: bitmap=raster pixel, anti-aliasing, hinting, subpixel rendering
sans-serif:
Verdana, Arial, Trebuchet MS, Arial Black, Impact
serif: Georgia,
Time New Roman
monospace: 1.
Andale Mono, Courier New (serif), Webdings
cursive: Comic Sans MS
Google WebFonts
font-size
Understanding font sizing in css-em-px-pt-percent-rem
CSS Units
Units of length: px, em, cm, etc.
Font Size Conversion Chart
Specifying fonts in Web pages: The relationship between FONT SIZE and physical type size
0 6pt xx-small
1 8pt H6 x-small
2 10pt H5 small
3 12pt H4 default medium
4 14pt H3 large
5 18pt H2 x-large
6 24pt H1 xx-large
7 36pt
Toward a standard font size interval system
Web typography
CSS font sampler and survey
CCS font stacks by classification
CCS font stack example with compatibility percentage on Windows and Mac:
Hoefler Text, Garamond, Palatino, Time New Roman
Revised Font Stack for various websites Times New Roman,
Palatino, Book Antiqua (on Office), Georgia (use lining features), Constantia (use lining numerals), Garamond (on Office, no bold italic), Cambria (O is too narrow),
Baskerville (on Office, no bold, italic),
Verdana, Tahoma (no italic), Arial (use stylistic set 3 for 'I'), Segoe UI (Windows 8 'I' change),
Courier New,
Consolas,
Comic Sans MS
Consider capitalized I, small l, number 1, small o, number 0, capital O.
JIl1o0Og Default
JIl1o0Og Arial
JIl1o0Og Courier
JIl1o0Og Georgia
JIl1o0Og Helvetica
JIl1o0Og Times
JIl1o0Og Trebuchet
JIl1o0Og Verdana
Microsoft: Tahoma (Segoe UI, Segoe)
Yahoo: Arial
Facebook: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Verdana
Microsoft Typography Fonts: Office, Office, Games, Other Applications
List of Microsoft Windows fonts
List of typefaces included with Mac OS X
California Job Case: ligatures: fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, ae, oe, AE, OE, Teffi, Only Times New Roman has 'Th'
Letter frequency e t a o i n s h r, S A C M P R T B F
Microsoft Word OpenType Options in the Font Dialog Box
Home, Styles, Normal (right click), Modify, Formatting, Fonts, Advanced, (Times New Roman, Constantia; Verdana)
1. Ligatures:
Standard, Contextual, Historical, Discretionary (will cause Palatino to use st, ct ligatures)
2. Number spacing: Proportional,
Tabular
3. Number forms:
Lining, Old-Style
4. Stylistic sets: Arial 3 has good 'I', Trebuchet 3 has capitalized lower alphabets
5.
Use Contextual Alternates
Restore Word original template Normal.dotm delete it from C:\Users\
\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates
LaTex fonts,
Recent TeX fonts, fbb Bembo, garamondx
The Beauty of LaTex: kerning, ligatures,
Teffi
Pinyin fonts
Google Fonts
Google Docs,
Headings
1. Select text, change font (Garamond, Gentium Book Basic, Times New Roman), size (12)
2. Normal text, Update 'Normal text' to match
3. Options, Save as my default styles
Windows 99%: 11
sans-serif: Tahoma, Microsoft Sans Serif, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Impact
serif: Times New Roman, Georgia
monospace: Courier New (serif), Lucida Console
cursive: Comic Sans MS
Mac 95%: 11
sans-serif: Helvetica, Lucida Grande, Geneva, Monaco, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Trebuchet MS
serif: Times, Georgia, Times New Roman
monospace (fixed width): Courier (serif)
Width:
Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Microsoft Sans Serif, Georgia, Trebuchet MS, Times New Roman, Garamond, Calibri
Monospaced: check Illegal1=O0| '
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Monospaced Fonts Graphic Samples
1. DejaVu Sans Mono
2. Andale Mono
VIM: the perfect programming font:
Gohu copy files to .font and use fc-cache -f -v for linux
1. Gohufont 11, 14 px, 2. DejaVu Sans Mono, 3. Andale Mono
Font Survey: 42 of the Best Monospaced Programming Fonts:
Dina 10 point too small, DejaVu Sans Mono, Andale Mono (lighter)
10 Alternative Monospace Fonts for Programmers
TOP 10 PROGRAMMING FONTS
Tiny Fonts - GoHu - ProFont
Presentations and slides:
choosing fonts for presentations
Open-source Unicode typefaces:
DejaVu fonts,
Liberation fonts,
Nimbus,
SIL (
Gentium, Charis, Doulos)
Serif Old Style:
Humanist (Venetian, older):
Montaga (Google fonts), High Tower Text (office, 1 is like I, not tabular), Centaur (Office, 1 is like I)
Garalde:
Garamond (Office b i, OSX, Google Docs),
Palatino (Windows b i bi, OSX), Goudy Old Style (Office b i, Google Docs),
Hoefler Text (OSX),
Gentium Book Basic (Google Docs),
Junicode,
Tinos (Google Docs), Bookman (Google Docs), Gilliard (Byington on Windows)
Google Docs:
Garamond, Goudy, Gentium Book Basic
Mac OS X (Pages): Hoefler Text, Garamond, Palatino
iWork on iCloud:
Hoefler Text,
Garamond
Office:
Garamond, Palatino
Office 365 online:
Garamond
Only Garamond is compatible across platforms except office online
Transitional:
Georgia (free, text figure numerals)
, Times New Roman (free)
Sans-Serif:
Humanist: Calibri, Lucida Grande,
Segoe UI, Myriad, Frutiger,
Trebuchet MS,
Tahoma,
Verdana.
All Free, all available: Arial, Tahoma (I), Trebuchet MS (
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Verdana (QJIija)
Grotesque: Franklin Gothic
GMail: Use
Serif (Times New Roman) or Garamond,
Verdana or Tahoma, default (Sans Serif Arial)
Sans Serif, Serif (s), Wide, Narrow, Comis Sans MS, Courier New, Garamond (s), Georgia (s), Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, Verdana
small, normal, large, huge
Old: Arial/Helvetica, Times New Roman, Arial Black, Arial Narrow, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Garamond, Georgia, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, Verdana
base64 encode decode
Yahoo Mail: Use
default Classic (Times New Roman) or Garamond, Modern (Sans-Serif) is not good
Modern, Modern Wide, Classic (s), Classic wide (s), Garamond (s), Courier New, Garamond, Lucida Console
small, medium, large, x-large
Old Yahoo eMail: Arial, Bookman Old Style, Courier New, Garamond, Lucida Console, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Verdana
Hotmail, live, outlook.com: Use
Times New Roman or Garamond,
Verdana or Tahoma, default Calibri
Arial, Calibri (default), Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Franklin Gothic Medium, Garamond (s), Tahoma, Times New Roman (s), Verdana
8, 10, 12 (default), 16, 20, 24, 30
Old: Default Tahoma 10pt. Arial, Garamond, Comic Sans MS, Franklin Gothic Medium, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Verdana
Blogger:
Times,
Verdana, default Arial,
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Default, Arial, Courier, Georgia, Helvetica, Times, Trebuchet, Verdana
Google Docs:
Times New Roman,
Verdana
Default: Arial 11pt, Arial, Arial Black, Narrow, Calibri, Cambria, Comic Sans MS, Consola, Corsiva, Courier New, Droid Sans, Droid Serif, Georgia, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana
Chinese traditional font:
MingLiU (
細明體 fixed pitch),
PMingLiU (
新細明體 variable pitch)
Chinese simplified han:
NSimSun (
新宋體 fixed pitch),
SimSun (
中易宋體 variable pitch)
Bitstream Cyberbit Serif CJK unicode
Sans
Microsoft JhengHei (
微軟正黑體 variable pitch)
Sans
Microsoft YaHei (
微软雅黑 variable pitch),
SimHei (
中易黑体 fixed pitch)
Noto Sans CJK,
Source Han Sans (light, medium, ... 7 weights)
Regular script (
楷書)
Arphic Technology AR PL UKai
DFKai-SB (
標楷體) BiaoKai (Mac)
KaiTi (
中易楷体)
Imitation Song (
仿宋體)
FangSong (中易仿宋)
Clerical script (
隸書) (中易隶书)
[Justfont] 那個讓人想到台灣的字體,
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