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A colonnette is a small slender column, [1] usually decorative, which supports a beam or lintel.Colonnettes have also been used to refer to a feature of furnishings such as a dressing table and case clock, [2] [3] and even studied by archeologists in Roman ceramics. [4]
Column width is traditionally called measure by typesetters. For best legibility, typographic manuals suggest that columns should be wide enough to contain roughly 60 characters per line. [3] One formula suggests multiplying the point size of the font by 2 to reach how wide a column should be in picas [4] — in effect a column width of 24 ems.
Roblox Studio includes multiple premade game templates [16] [17] as well as the Toolbox, which allows access to user-created models, plug-ins, audio, images, meshes, video, and fonts. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Games, officially referred to as "experiences" on the platform, [ 20 ] [ 21 ] are scripted with Luau (stylized as Lua u ), a dialect of the Lua 5.1 ...
Gotham was used as the main font of Roblox since February 2019, formerly using Source Sans Pro. Since 2022, Gotham began being used on the Roblox logo, as well as on some title pages. Since April 2024, the font has been replaced by Builder Sans, a font created by Roblox. It is also able to be used as a font within Roblox Studio.
The font shown in the example is stressed; this means that strokes have varying widths. In this example, the stroke at the top of the "g" is thinner at the top and bottom than on the sides – a vertical stress. Fonts without any variation in the stroke width are known as monoline fonts.
In English and most European languages where words are read left-to-right, text is usually aligned "flush left", [1] meaning that the text of a paragraph is aligned on the left-hand side with the right-hand side ragged. This is the default style of text alignment on the World Wide Web for left-to-right text. [2] Quotations are often indented ...
The number is expressed in font units, one unit being a certain fraction of an em (one em is the type size currently used). Different fonts may use other units, but common values are 1000 and 2048 units/em. Thus, for 1000 units/em, a kerning value of 15 means an increase in character spacing by 0.015 of the current type size.
Many of the older fonts were intended mainly for use in newspaper columns. Times New Roman is a good example, but there were many others. The descenders were kept as short as possible in such fonts so that all the text could be set with the same line spacing.