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Bitstream Vera. Vera is a digital typeface ( computer font) superfamily with a liberal license. It was designed by Jim Lyles from the now-defunct Bitstream Inc. type foundry, and it is closely based on Bitstream Prima, for which Lyles was also responsible. It is a TrueType font with full hinting instructions, which improve its rendering quality ...
Helvetica. Helvetica, also known by its original name Neue Haas Grotesk, is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann. Helvetica is a neo-grotesque design, one influenced by the famous 19th-century (1890s) typeface Akzidenz-Grotesk and other German and Swiss designs. [ 2]
The operating system ships with Arial, Arial Black, Arial Narrow, and Arial Rounded MT. However, the default macOS font for sans-serif/Swiss generic font family is Helvetica. The bundling of Arial with Windows and macOS has contributed to it being one of the most widely distributed and used typefaces in the world.
Microsoft Sans Serif is a sans-serif typeface introduced with early Microsoft Windows versions. It is the successor of MS Sans Serif, formerly Helv, a proportional bitmap font introduced in Windows 1.0. Both typefaces are very similar in design to Arial and Helvetica. The typeface was designed to match the MS Sans bitmap included in the early ...
Download QR code; Wikidata item; ... Samples of sans-serif typefaces Typeface name Example 1 ... Helvetica Designer: Max Miedinger, Eduard Hoffman
Sans Serif: Proportional: Regular: Japanese 10 (v1809) UD Digi Kyokasho NP-B [6] Sans Serif: Proportional: Bold: Japanese 10 (v1809) Urdu Typesetting [6] Serif Proportional: Regular: Arabic 8 Utsaah [6] Sans Serif Proportional: Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic: Devanagari 7 Vani [6] Serif: Proportional: Regular, Bold: Telugu 7 Verdana [6 ...
Open-source Unicode typefaces. Examples of several libre, sans-serif typefaces. There are Unicode typefaces which are open-source and designed to contain glyphs of all Unicode characters, or at least a broad selection of Unicode scripts. There are also numerous projects aimed at providing only a certain script, such as the Arabeyes Arabic font.
Sans-serif lettering and typefaces were popular due to their clarity and legibility at distance in advertising and display use, when printed very large or small. Because sans-serif type was often used for headings and commercial printing, many early sans-serif designs did not feature lower-case letters.