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  2. Sans-serif - Wikipedia

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    Sans-serif typefaces have become the most prevalent for display of text on computer screens. On lower-resolution digital displays, fine details like serifs may disappear or appear too large. The term comes from the French word sans, meaning "without" and "serif" of uncertain origin, possibly from the Dutch word schreef meaning "line" or pen ...

  3. List of monospaced typefaces - Wikipedia

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    Bitstream Vera Sans Mono [2] Cascadia Code: Century Schoolbook Monospace: Comic Mono [3] Computer Modern Mono/Typewriter [4] Consolas Class: Humanist : Courier [5] Cousine: DejaVu Sans Mono: Droid Sans Mono [6] Envy Code R [7] Everson Mono [8] Fantasque Sans: Fira Code [9] Fira Mono [10] Fixed: Fixedsys: FreeMono [11] Go Mono [12] Hack [13 ...

  4. Fixed (typeface) - Wikipedia

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    misc-fixed is a collection of monospace bitmap fonts that is distributed with the X Window System. It is a set of independent bitmap fonts which—apart from all being sans-serif fonts—cannot be described as belonging to a single font family. The misc-fixed fonts were the first fonts available for the X Window System.

  5. Modern typography - Wikipedia

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    Typeface remains the groundwork for design concepts. The hallmark of early modern typography is the sans-serif typeface. "Because of its simplicity, the even weight of its lines, and its nicely balanced proportions, sans serif forms pleasing and easily distinguished word patterns – a most important element in legibility and easy reading."

  6. Monospaced font - Wikipedia

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    A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. [1] [a] This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spacings have different widths. Monospaced fonts are customary on typewriters and for typesetting ...

  7. Typeface - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Fixedsys - Wikipedia

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    Fixedsys is a family of raster monospaced fonts. The name means fixed system, because its glyphs are monospace or fixed-width (although bolded characters are wider than non-bolded, unlike other monospace fonts such as Courier). It is the oldest font in Microsoft Windows, and was the system font in Windows 1.0 and 2.0, where it was simply named ...

  9. List of sans serif typefaces - Wikipedia

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    Charcoal (Mac OS 9 system font) Designer: David Berlow: Chicago (pre-Mac OS 9 system font, still included with Mac OS X) Designer: Susan Kare: Adobe Clean - Adobe's now standard GUI and icon font Class: Humanist, Spurless : Clear Sans (Intel) Designer: Dan Rhatigan, George Ryan, Robin Nicholas : Clearview Designer: James Montalbano et al. Class ...