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It is intended as a serif font that is suitable for body text, that is very readable printed small or displayed on a low-resolution screen and has even spacing and proportions. [2] It is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various designers released with Windows Vista.
Body text. Body text or body copy is the text forming the main content of a book, magazine, web page, or any other printed or digital work. This is as a contrast to both additional components such as headings, images, charts, footnotes etc. on each page, and also the pages of front matter that form the introduction to a book.
On Macs, Helvetica, Times, and Courier are three core fonts used by Adobe's PostScript and PDF technologies. All three fonts have been included on every Mac going back to the 1980s, and they are the default "sans-serif", "serif", and "monospace" fonts in almost all web browsers.
Designed by Hannes von Döhren of HVD Fonts, it is the main corporate font of Comedy Central until 2018. [64] In 2014, von Döhren released Brandon Text, a tighter version intended for body text. [65] Braggadocio is based on Futura Black. The 2000 typeface Gotham is similarly geometric and based on 1920s signage.
Athelas is a serif typeface designed by Veronika Burian and Jose Scaglione and intended for use in body text. [1] Released by their company TypeTogether in 2008, Burian and Scaglione described Athelas as inspired by British fine book printing. [2][3][4] Athelas is included as a system font in Apple's macOS operating system and as a default font ...
Clarendon is the name of a slab serif typeface that was released in 1845 by Thorowgood and Co. (or Thorowgood and Besley) of London, a letter foundry often known as the Fann Street Foundry. The original Clarendon design is credited to Robert Besley, a partner in the foundry, and was originally engraved by punchcutter Benjamin Fox, who may also ...
In print, Didone fonts are often used on high-gloss magazine paper for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, where the paper retains the detail of their high contrast well, and for whose image a crisp, "European" design of type may be considered appropriate. [53] [54] They are used more often for general-purpose body text, such as book printing ...
Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928–1929 and most commonly used for body text.It is a member of the "old-style" of serif fonts, with its regular or roman style based on a design cut around 1495 by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, sometimes generically called the "Aldine roman".