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FontForge is a FOSS font editor which supports many common font formats. Developed primarily by George Williams until 2012, FontForge is free software and is distributed under a mix of the GNU General Public License Version 3 and the 3-clause BSD license. [2]
Charcoal (Mac OS 9 system font) Designer: David Berlow: Chicago (pre-Mac OS 9 system font, still included with Mac OS X) Designer: Susan Kare: Adobe Clean - Adobe's now standard GUI and icon font Class: Humanist, Spurless : Clear Sans (Intel) Designer: Dan Rhatigan, George Ryan, Robin Nicholas : Clearview Designer: James Montalbano et al. Class ...
Libertinus Serif Initials: A derivative of Libertinus Serif with outlined variants of capital letter glyphs suitable for drop-caps or other decorations. Libertinus Keyboard : A derivative of Libertinus Sans with keyboard key outlines around each character suitable for use in technical documentation.
This font, along with Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Corbel and Constantia, is also distributed with Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer, [3] [4] the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack [5] for Microsoft Windows and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. [6] Consolas is also available for licensing from Ascender Corporation.
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.
Open Sans is an open source humanist sans-serif typeface that was designed by Steve Matteson under commission from Google. It was released in 2011 and is based on his earlier design called Droid Sans , which was specifically created for Android mobile devices but with slight modifications to its width.
Font substitution is the process of using one typeface in place of another when the intended typeface either is not available or does not contain glyphs for the required characters. Font substitution can be aided by: classifying fonts into generic font families, such that for example a sans serif font is substituted by another sans serif font.
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 .