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Cyrillic variant of the Futura typeface made for the Summer Olympic Games Moscow 1980. Autopilot controls of a Boeing 747 with legend written in Futura. Use of the font is widespread in the aerospace industry for flight instrument and control markings. A Cyrillic variant of the Futura Medium typography was made by Anatoli Muzanov for the 1980 ...
Numeral systems. Number systems have progressed from the use of fingers and tally marks, perhaps more than 40,000 years ago, to the use of sets of glyphs able to represent any conceivable number efficiently. The earliest known unambiguous notations for numbers emerged in Mesopotamia about 5000 or 6000 years ago.
In the mid-1960s, a derivative of Times New Roman known as 'Press Roman' was used as a font for the IBM Composer. [152] This was an ultra-premium electric 'golfball' typewriter system, intended to be used for producing high-quality office documents or copy to be photographically enlarged for small-scale printing projects. [ 152 ]
In photography, Roman numerals (with zero) are used to denote varying levels of brightness when using the Zone System . In seismology, Roman numerals are used to designate degrees of the Mercalli intensity scale of earthquakes. Example of postage stamp from Ireland (Éire) franked using Roman numeral for the month.
Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, [a] the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.
Meta is looking to revitalize its Facebook app for users other than your weird Uncle Greg with a fresh push to grab Gen Z’s attention.Facebook head Tom Alison is pitching the social network as a ...
Hoefler Text, a typeface designed in 1991, uses text figures. The ascending six and descending nines are minted on this 1996 U.S. penny. Text figures (also known as non-lining, lowercase, old style, [1] ranging, hanging, medieval, billing, [2] or antique [3] figures or numerals) are numerals designed with varying heights in a fashion that resembles a typical line of running text, hence the name.
Roman type. In Latin script typography, roman is one of the three main kinds of historical type, alongside blackletter and italic. Sometimes called normal, it is distinct from these two for its upright style (relative to the calligraphy-inspired italic) and its simplicity (relative to blackletter). During the early Renaissance, roman (in the ...