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Typography, i.e. the use of fonts, on Wikipedia can often be a source of heated debates. This is because Wikipedia has never set an explicit font in its default skin. This was true for Monobook, and still holds for Vector. The base font for these skins are simply defined as font-family: sans-serif.
apt-get install fonts-mph-2b-damase The package should also work under all other Debian derived distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, don't forget the sudo command). For other distributions, extract the truetype font and place it under either /usr/share/fonts/ (with superuser right) or ~/.fonts/ (normal user right). Then run the following command to ...
Fallback font (freeware fallback font for Windows) Free UCS Outline Fonts aka FreeFont (free/open source, "FreeSerif" includes 3,914 glyphs in v1.52, MES-1 compliant) Gentium (free/open source, "Gentium Plus" includes over 5,500 glyphs in November 2010) GNU Unifont (free/open source, bitmapped glyphs are inclusive as defined in unicode-5.1 only)
Avoid using boldface (or other font gimmicks) in the expansions of acronyms, as in United Nations (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations § Acronyms for guidelines on acronym style). The same applies to over-explaining portmanteau terms; avoid clauses like Texarkana is named for Texas and Arkansas.
This Manual of Style (MoS or MOS) is the style manual for all English Wikipedia articles (though provisions related to accessibility apply across the entire project, not just to articles). This primary page is supported by further detail pages , which are cross-referenced here and listed at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Contents .
It is one of free (GPL) fonts developed in GNU FreeFont project, first published in 2002. Other such typefaces take creative liberties from Helvetica and its basic letter shapes. Liberation Sans is a metrically equivalent font to Arial developed by Steve Matteson at Ascender and published by Red Hat under the SIL Open Font License.
Brush lettering practice by artist Emmanuel Sevilla. In the past, almost all decorative lettering other than that on paper was created as custom or hand-painted lettering. The use of fonts in place of lettering has increased due to new printing methods, phototypesetting, and digital typesetting, which allow fonts to be printed at any desired size.
Matthew Carter has cited his 1966 Snell Roundhand typeface as deliberately designed to replicate a style of calligraphy hard to simulate in metal. [10] [11] An additional development enabling more sophisticated script fonts has been the release of the OpenType format, which most fonts are now released in.