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Lucida Grande (former Mac OS X system font, used from Mac OS X 10.0 to Mac OS X 10.9) Designer: Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes Class: Humanist : Lucida Sans Designer: Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes Class: Humanist : FS Me Designer: Jason Smith Class: Humanist : FF Meta Designer: Erik Spiekermann Class: Humanist : Microsoft Sans Serif Designer ...
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.
Sans-serif lettering and typefaces were popular due to their clarity and legibility at distance in advertising and display use, when printed very large or small. Because sans-serif type was often used for headings and commercial printing, many early sans-serif designs did not feature lower-case letters.
Experimenting with both serif and sans-serif fonts including Times New Roman and Frutiger, they found that distinguishing among homoglyphs, and even among some characters that do not appear very similar to fully sighted people, was difficult for partially visually impaired people because of these fonts' focus on uniformity. Thus the project ...
Source Sans (known as Source Sans Pro before 2021) [1] is a sans-serif typeface created by Paul D. Hunt, released by Adobe in 2012. [2] It is the first open-source font family from Adobe, distributed under the SIL Open Font License .
The Public Type or PT Fonts are a family of free and open-source fonts released from 2009 onwards, comprising PT Sans, PT Serif and PT Mono.They were commissioned from the design agency ParaType by Rospechat, a department of the Russian Ministry of Communications, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great's orthography reform and to create a font family that supported all the ...
Lato is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Łukasz Dziedzic. It was released in 2010. [3] The name "Lato" is Polish for "summer". [4] Lato was published under the open-source Open Font License. [5] In August 2018, Lato is used on more than 9.6 million websites, and is the third most served font on Google Fonts, with over one billion ...
Montserrat has gained popularity as a free alternative to other similar sans-serif fonts, such as Gotham or Avenir. [7] Although mainly seen in websites and online media , its high readability and ease of scaling make Montserrat a suitable typeface for printed material, such as brochures, signage and even books (as can be seen in the ...