typeface

A typeface is a visual representation of a set of alphabetic characters used in printing. Typefaces are characterized by having a consistent style of related character forms.

Historically typefaces were first carved from wood and set on a letterpress. After about 400 years, wood type was replaced by cast metal type. "Cold" metal type lasted for about a century and was replaced by hot metal type which was cast mechanically on demand. Hot metal type was replaced within 50 years by optical laser type, which quickly evolved into computerized digital type stored as outline coordinates in one of several data formats (TrueType, OpenType, and Postscript). These are often referred to as fonts, though that term more precisely refers to a specific weight or subset of a typeface.

The most popular typefaces in current usage are probably Helvetica or one of its many variations, and Times Roman in its many forms.

Modern digital typefaces are available online from sites like Monotype, Fontcraft and MyFonts.

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  What Is That Font & How To Type an Ω?
  Ever wonder what font that designer used? Maybe you need the keyboard combination for Ω. Why didn't anyone show me these tricks before, you ask? Well here ya go!
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  The Great Gatsby. Sydney, Australia-based Like Minded Studio collaborated with Baz Luhrman, Catherine Martin and the Bazmark team to develop the branding for The Great Gatsby movie. The team created an Art déco styled logotype that reflects the roaring 1920s and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. The complete ...
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• Esmeralda Pro – Classic Serif Font by Sudtipos

  
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  Esmeralda Pro – Serif Typeface. Esmeralda Pro is a serif font designed by Guille Vizzari (Font Publisher: Sudtipos ). The classic typeface is highly inspired by ‘capitalis monumentalis’, carved in stone while the elegant style of the capital letters is influenced of handwritten calligraphy. Esmeralda ...
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• Hurme Geometric Sans No.4 – Font Family by Hurme Design

  
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  Hurme Geometric Sans No.4 – Type Family. Hurme Geometric Sans No.4 is a contemporary font family by Toni Hurme ( Hurme Design ). The entire type family includes 7 weights with true small caps, obliques (italics) and swash alternates. The uppercase swash alternates can be automatically added to every character ...
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• 20+ Best Free Comic Fonts

  
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  Advertise here with BSA Tweet So I just got back from AdobeMAX (which I am putting together all the awesome stuff I learned and saw there, so stay tuned for that post and other posts) and one of the many themes that kept coming up there is the use of typography (Fonts, type, etc.) in web designs and in real ...
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• 5 Color Animated Font for After Effects

  
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  an animated font for After Effects, Based off the Bebas Neue Sans Serif Typeface. The 5 Color Animated Font is an pre-animated font with some customization controls for color and timing. Advertise here with BSA
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• Anodyne – Distressed Font by Yellow Design Studio

  
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  Anodyne – Grungy Typeface. Anodyne is an all-caps distressed font by Yellow Design Studio (Font Design by Ryan Martinson ). The font has an authentic hand-printed grunge texture and special layer shadow features. Anodyne includes several OpenType features such as different distress variations for each letter ...
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• ALEO – Free Font Family

  
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  Aleo is a contemporary typeface designed as the slab serif companion to the Lato font by Łukasz Dziedzic. Aleo has semi-rounded details and a sleek structure, giving it a strong personality while still keeping readability high. The family comprises six styles:  three weights (light, regular and bold) with ...
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• Heimat Mono – Monospaced Type Family by Atlas Font Foundry

  
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  Heimat Mono – Font Family. Heimat Mono is a monospaced font family designed by Christoph Dunst (Font Publisher: Atlas Font Foundry ), which belongs to the Heimat Collection . Heimat Mono is a very legible typeface designed for modern typography. You can use it for both headlines or long texts. The typeface ...
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• The 20 Most Versatile Font Families

  
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• Hapna – Geometric Slab Serif Font Family by The Northern Block

  
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  Hapna Type Family. Hapna is a trendy geometric slab serif font family designed in 2013 by Mariya V. Pigoulevskaya (Font Publisher: The Northern Block ). This unique type family was created as an alternative to common types of slab fonts . Hapna’s typeface combines a contemporary font geometry with a ...
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• Erik Spiekermann Typography

  
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  Erik Spiekermann , German typographer, typeface design genius and typomaniac. He created FF Meta, Berliner Grotesk, FF Unit and FF Info. Our brain is incredible. It’s the biggest hard drive that we know. And it’s the fastest. But the trouble is that I can never find anything, like on my hard drive. Visit ...
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• Deal of the week: Beautiful Solomon font family

  
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• {Typeface Tuesday} 5 Fantastic Font Combinations

  
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  Sometimes its tough to effectively combine typefaces - so today I wanted to share a few of my tried and true font combinations that Ive come up with over the years. And in case you need a little refresher on how to install fonts on your computer...  click here if you have a Mac or here if you have a PC. 1. ...
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• Antenna – Sans Serif Type Family by Font Bureau

  
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  Antenna – Font Family. Antenna is a purebred sans serif type family by font designer Cyrus Highsmith (Type Foundry: Font Bureau ). The typeface is carefully designed and has a very balanced Kerning. Antenna is very suitable for the editorial use in Newspapers and Magazines. The entire font family consists ...
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