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Samples of sans-serif typefaces Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Agency FB Designer: Caleigh Huber & Morris Fuller Benton Class: Geometric : Akzidenz-Grotesk Designer: Günter Gerhard Lange Class: Grotesque : Amplitude Designer: Christian Schwartz Class: Humanist : Andalé Sans Designer: Steve Matteson Class: Humanist : Antique Olive ...
Syntax is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Meier in 1968, and released in 1969 by the D. Stempel Schriftgießerei (type foundry) of Frankfurt am Main. [1] [2] It is believed to be the final face designed and released by D. Stempel for foundry casting.
A humanist sans-serif font family, somewhat similar to Syntax (1968) and Frutiger (1976). It included fonts in 8 weights and 2 widths, with complementary italic fonts. A distinctive figure is the 'Q' with the detached tail, somewhat similar to that on Dwiggins' Metro; an alternate is provided for when this is unsuitable.
Source Sans (known as Source Sans Pro before 2021) [1] is a sans-serif typeface created by Paul D. Hunt, released by Adobe in 2012. [2] It is the first open-source font family from Adobe, distributed under the SIL Open Font License .
Samples of serif typefaces Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Adobe Jenson Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style Albertus Designer: Berthold Wolpe Class: Glyphic Aldus
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.
Category: Unified serif and sans-serif typeface families. 2 languages. ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, [a] the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.