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Gill Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards. Gill Sans is based on Edward Johnston's 1916 "Underground Alphabet", the corporate font of London Underground. As a young artist, Gill had assisted Johnston in its early development stages.
Put text in small caps: set: Insert question mark: sp: Spell out: Used to indicate that an abbreviation should be spelled out, such as in its first use stet: Let it stand: Indicates that proofreading marks should be ignored and the copy unchanged tr: transpose: Transpose the two words selected wf: Wrong font: Put text in correct font ww [3 ...
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.
The sentence "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents", in Zalgo textZalgo text is generated by excessively adding various diacritical marks in the form of Unicode combining characters to the letters in a string of digital text. [4]
Comic Sans Pro is an updated version of Comic Sans created by Terrance Weinzierl from Monotype Imaging. While retaining the original designs of the core characters, it expands the typeface by adding new italic variants, in addition to swashes, small capitals, extra ornaments and symbols including speech bubbles, onomatopoeia and dingbats, as well as text figures and other stylistic alternatives.
Unicode has text representations of chess pieces. These allow to produce the symbols using plain text without the need of a graphics interface. The inclusion of the chess symbols enables the use of figurine algebraic notation , which replaces the letter that stands for a piece by its symbol, e.g. ♘c6 instead of Nc6.
Sans forgetica is a variation of a sans-serif typeface, claimed to assist students in retaining the information which they read. Two years after its release and having received a great deal of publicity, the first peer-reviewed study demonstrated that Sans Forgetica was not effective for enhancing memory. [ 1 ]
In 2009, the project released Linux Biolinum: it is a sans serif font designed to pair well with Libertine. [2] It resembles Optima. In 2012, a monospaced serif font face was released, Linux Libertine Mono. [3] Derivative works include the following. The Libertinus font family forked in 2012, including: Libertinus Serif, based on Linux Libertine.