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  2. Reverse-contrast typefaces - Wikipedia

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    Modern font designer Peter Biľak, who has created a design in the genre, has described them as "a dirty trick to create freakish letterforms that stood out." [ 10 ] Reverse-contrast letters are rarely used for body text, being more used in display applications such as headings and posters, in which the unusual structure may be particularly eye ...

  3. Wanted poster - Wikipedia

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    A wanted poster (or wanted sign) is a poster distributed to let the public know of a person whom authorities wish to apprehend. They generally include a picture of the person, either a photograph when one is available or of a facial composite image produced by the police.

  4. Font - Wikipedia

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    In metal typesetting, a font (American English) or fount (Commonwealth English) is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface, defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design. For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts " Roman " (or "regular"), " bold " and " italic "; each of these exists in a ...

  5. Typography - Wikipedia

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    A revolving type case for wooden type in China, an illustration shown in a book published in 1313 by Wang Zhen Korean movable type from 1377 used for the Jikji. Although typically applied to printed, published, broadcast, and reproduced materials in contemporary times, all words, letters, symbols, and numbers written alongside the earliest naturalistic drawings by humans may be called typography.

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Avoid using smaller font sizes within page elements that already use a smaller font size, such as most text within infoboxes, navboxes, and references sections. [g] This means that <small>...</small> tags, and templates such as {} and {}, should not be applied to plain text within those elements. In no case should the resulting font size of any ...

  7. Clarendon (typeface) - Wikipedia

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    This style is also traditionally associated with wild-west printing; it is commonly seen on circus posters and wanted notices in western movies. [42] [43] However, it was actually used in many parts of the world at the time. The concept, now called as reverse-contrast or reverse-stress type, predated Clarendon altogether.

  8. Sans-serif - Wikipedia

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    The OpenDocument format (ISO/IEC 26300:2006) and Rich Text Format can use it to specify the sans-serif generic typeface ("font family") name for the font files used in a document. [ 102 ] [ 103 ] [ 104 ] Presumably refers to the popularity of sans-serif grotesque and neo-grotesque types in Switzerland.

  9. Gotham (typeface) - Wikipedia

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    The font has also been used on the cornerstone of the One World Trade Center in New York. It is also the current font used in MPA title cards for film trailers in the U.S. Developed for professional use, Gotham is an extremely large family, featuring four widths, eight weights, and separate designs for screen display and a rounded version.