Bell (Monotype) Didone classification serif type designed by Richard Austin, 1788. Here you can find a graphical version of this table. pls visit Tom Murphy 7’s Invincible Web Page and i was particularly amused by his Illustrated Notes from Computer Science Serif Really nice free fonts from Eduardo Recifeįrom and Tom Murphy who is another whole article in himself. so this is going to end up being a very long post to summarize digital fonts so take an intermission to draw or grab some free fonts from these guys In Flash websites the fonts can be embedded as vector so that you may vary the kind of font you are displaying * FontFont, a division of FontShop International this can be uncool if the font moves you text alignment and or sizes. System fonts represent 90% of the fonts you see in websites and are given simple css tags to define the particular system font… what sucks about them is that while you may have a particular font, another use may not and they will default to their prefered font in the browser window. In terms of how your website type looks you are dealing with several ways of displaying it. here’s a quick primer just on digital fonts as the type face and font business is another beast all together where each font is copywrite to it’s founder and the foundry which produces it.ĭigital fonts store the image of each character either as a bitmap in a bitmap font, or by mathematical description of lines and curves in an outline font, also called a vector font. if you don’t understand fonts in websites. Well this area of web design is often misunderstood and can easily bog down a work flow of a traditional print advertising agency moving to digital. and they were right as the font i had installed as a bodega sans was actually an italian knockoff of the original that you can see here. (side note: i prefer Adobe InDesign Files vs Quark or EPS files) and i used the font documented… well well. by the way my system fonts are messed up… so i didn’t get copies of the font. i’ve heard it again and again from various computer users… and on this particular project …when i was handed the eps files to convert to adobe flash files… there was a note that said oh. i ran into some font troubles and learned some stuff along the way.
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