In addition to the thousands of other sites that use the service, Google itself uses these fonts on their own platform. Their selection is available for both web typography and mobile typography. Google fonts offer both aesthetics and functionality and are available for both personal and commercial use. Google fonts came strong with its rich resources and quickly became the number one choice of web designers and developers. If you spent hours kerning, aligning and perfecting the widows / orphans etc., and then changed fonts, there is a high chance that the lines would change in length, potentially damaging your layout.Just like typography is the key to excellent web design, so is the font the key to excellent typography. The most important thing to realise about the fact there are differences, is that they really shouldn't be used interchangeably - the biggest risk you face if you try and work with different foundries versions of fonts, is that due to the difference in kerning (the spacing between each letter) there is a chance that a line of type from one foundry will be a different length than that of another foundry. The type from different foundries will be almost identical, but have very, very slight (but important) differences, which are typically only able to be noticed at very high magnification. The term 'cut' relates to the history of type - letters were previously physically 'cut' from lead. Association Typographique InternationaleĮvery foundry - 'Microsoft', 'Adobe', 'TypeKit' etc., - make their own 'cut' of typefaces.Handwriting – among other techniques – cannot. Glyphs: The symbols in a typeface that represent characters like A, ! or 5.Type: Printed or digitally reproduced glyphs.Typesetting: The act of arranging physical or digital type.Typography: The art and technique of arranging physical or digital type.
Rule of thumb: If your submission is about Comic Sans MS misuse, bad keming or a funny typo, it’s likely better not to post it.ĭo not use URL shorteners. Only exception: It’s educational and non-obvious. No memes, image macros and similar submissions.No lettering, calligraphy, handwriting, graffiti, illustrations.
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