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| | Monotype: Gill Sans |
 | | Gill Sans reflects Eric Gill’s craftsmanship ethos, even though it was developed by “industrialized” methods-the result is an entire family of true typographic gems. | | | Because the characters of the Gill Sans alphabet are based on classic roman letterforms and not geometric shapes, they are remarkably legible. | | | All the related fonts of the Gill Sans family work well together, but they are not “mechanically” produced from a single design in the way that Helvetica and Univers are. |
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http://www.monotypefonts.com/Library/HiddenGems.asp?show=gillsans
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| | creativepro.com - dot-font: The Human Side of Sans Serif |
| | It is quite simply a monoline, sans serif version of Claude Garamond's 16th-century French type -- or rather, of the revivals based on Jean Jannon's 17th-century interpretation. | | | 1938 serif face Haarlemmer, which Blokland digitized in the 1990s, and turns them into a sans serif companion -- something that van Krimpen himself was the first to do, though with another of his typefaces( | | | Meta is more typographic and less calligraphic than some of the more recent humanist sans serifs, but anyone looking at the lowercase "g" can see that this is meant to function as, among other things, a text face. |
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http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/17292.html
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| | Alex Poole - Literature Review - Serif vs. Sans Serif Legibility |
| | Part 2 reviews the evidence for and against the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces. | | | Alex Poole - Literature Review - Serif vs. Sans Serif Legibility | | | Serifs are used to guide the horizontal "flow" of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading (De Lange et al., 1993) |
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http://www.alexpoole.info/academic/literaturereview.html
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| | CAP Online Sans frontiers: the making of Decennie Express, a new sans serif font from Jack Yan The design and style magazine |
| | There are some common letters: the e and o are common in both serif and sans serif book versionsthe commonality is, after all, the whole reason for doing subfamiliesbut most characters have their own designs.' The overall feel of the original Décennie is preserved, nonetheless. | | | Even Shannon, which I think is a beautiful sans serif typeface, has optically correct but the italics are based clearly on the romans. | | | With the trend towards subfamilies, and the preference of sans serif types online, a sans serif version of Décennie was created, beginning at the end of 1998. |
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http://www.jyanet.com/cap/2000/0122fe0.shtml
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| | Typeface of the month: Gill Sans : Journal : Mark Boulton Information design |
| | Gill Sans was designed by Eric Gill in the 1920's and issued by Monotype in 1928 to 1930. | | | I can’t seem to find any visuals at the moment, but I believe I read (and saw) in Gill’s essay on typography that he originally intended for Gill Sans to be much different than where it ended up. | | | It should be noted that gills sans takes its form in a large part from the earlier humanist forms along with the more modern geometric forms -it is this mix of history and modernity that is just one of the many reasons that makes gill so special in many peoples hearts. |
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http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/typeface_of_the_month_gill_sans
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| | Ban Comic Sans Typographica |
| | Comic Sans unfortunately is rendered with a careless stylization (the “stroked” style) and it gives the impression of a “quick” rendering. | | | Clearly, Comic Sans as a voice conveys silliness, childish naivety, irreverence, and is far too casual for such a purpose. | | | Comic Sans fails just because it present (unpleasing) naive forms as imagined by a skillful designer which is no longer visually naive in the first place, and so he cannot replicate whan an untrained letterer would accomplish with genuinity. |
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http://typographi.com/000389.php
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| | Serif vs. Sans Serif |
| | Sans serif are more stylistic and works well on short context (i.e., titles, headings, etc). | | | Both serif and sans serif type can be equally effective for legibility and style. | | | Sans serif type is superior for legibility and should be used whenever possible before using serif type. |
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http://rosendorf.us/blogdorf/archive/2006/01/18/1456.aspx
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| | Sans-serif typeface category. Sans serif font families. |
| | Most newspapers use sans-serif fonts for titles, but increasingly, news magazines tend to set their main text in sans serif. | | | A good rule of thumb is to use sans serif for titles when text is set in serif, or the opposite. | | | Sans serif fonts are used to set text, but seldom for long passages, because an alleged lack of legibility. |
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http://www.fontmenu.com/site/sans-serif.html
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| | Sans Serif Type |
| | Futura became the first popular Sans Serif typeface. | | | Sans serif type styles developed in the early 20th century. | | | Sans serif faces typically come in two different styles: geometeric and curvilinear. |
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http://www.r-mw.com/type/sans.html
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| | Be A Design Group: Serif vs. Sans |
| | Here is a link to Denny’s story about how he changed his newsletter’s font from Serif to Sans Serif based on the research of one of his readers. | | | Sans Serif make word recognition slower at best, and more difficult at worst because the “i’s” get lost among the “m’s” without more the reader needing to concentrate more. | | | The suggestion to use a sans serif font seemed crazy to Denny who was relying on information published in 1977 (Why Johnny Can’t Read). |
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http://www.beadesigngroup.com/blog/archives/2004/07/serif_vs_sans.html
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| | Creative Behavior - Typography - Sans serif vs serif typefaces |
| | When it comes to typeface selection, the modern typographer has many choices, old style, transitional, modern, sans serif, geometric, slab serif, decorative, and blackletter, to name a few. | | | Geometric sans serif faces (Futura, Univers) are closer to the archetypical alphabet we learn when we are first learning to write, so they tend to have a more informal feel. | | | Serif typefaces have been with us since ancient Roman times, while the sans serif typeface is an invention of the past century. |
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http://www.creativebehavior.com/index.php?PID=29
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| | Code Style: CSS font-family property glossary |
| | An alternative term for sans serif type faces, which were considered ugly when first used from the 1850s. | | | Sans serif font styles have no serifs and generally have minimal contrast, their strokes are very even and sometimes heavy. | | | Sans serif fonts typically have little or no contrast, serif and cursive fonts usually have higher contrast. |
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http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/Glossary.shtml
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| | Download Rotis Sans Serif Font Family - Linotype.com |
| | Rotis® Sans Serif Family Value Pack (Assorted Collection) | | | Rotis® Sans Serif 46 Light Italic (Assorted Collection) | | | This product has been updated within the last three month |
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http://www.linotype.com/49252/rotissansserif-family.html
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| | SimplytheBest Fonts sans serif fonts |
| | A sans serif stencil font by Faizal Reza. | | | A sans serif cartoon font by James Kendall. | | | A sans serif script font similar to Comic Sans MS, but with a simpler and more serious look. |
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http://simplythebest.net/fonts/sans_serif_fonts.html
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| | Font For web Pages |
| | Sans Serifs fonts are easier to read on a computer screen, so web pages should be written using a sans serif font. | | | With some web page editors, the font on your editing screen may appear to be sans serif, but when you preview your page, it is displayed in a serif font. | | | Change the Sans Serif font by selecting one from the drop down font list on the toolbar in your editor. |
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http://publish.uwo.ca/~floyd/bce61/fonttype.htm
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| | Sans-serif - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | One of these outmoded terms for sans serif is gothic, which is still used in Japanese typography and sometimes seen in font names like “New Century Gothic”. | | | In typography, a sans-serif or sans serif typeface is one that does not have the small features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. | | | Serifs help guide the eye along the line; the lack of serifs makes sans-serif fonts harder to read in large blocks of text. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif
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| | Usability News - 5.2 2003 -- A Comparison of Two Computer Fonts: Serif versus Ornate Sans Serif |
| | This is interesting, as the participants did not distinguish between serif and sans serif in terms of perceived legibility. | | | Twelve fonts representing sans serif, serif, and ornate styles were studied. | | | This study compares reading performance between an ornate sans serif font (Gigi) and Times New Roman. |
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http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/52/UK_font.htm
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| | Serif and sans-serif fonts |
| | This article distinguishes between serif and sans-serif fonts and discusses when each is more appropriate. | | | Serif fonts, all other things being equal, are easier to read than sans-serif fonts. | | | The commonly used convention for printed work is to use a serif font for the body of the work. |
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http://www.betterwritingskills.com/tip-w017.html
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| | Typography: serif vs. sans-serif - KuraFire Network |
| | i was taught in college that sans serif was on the web and serif for print; however lately in the tech comminicator community there have been discussions as to the validity of the claim that sans serif is more readable. | | | Most text on books and novels are usually serif typefaces. | | | San serif typefaces work better 12 pt and up. |
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http://kurafire.net/log/archive/2005/07/23/typography-serif-vs-sans-serif
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| | Serif Fonts |
| | The majority of those setting type prefer Times for the body text of a document, claiming that the serifs help the eye to move smoothly and swiftly over the text. | | | Serif fonts are inspired by architectural embellishments, particularly under roof overhangs. | | | Serif fonts were created for reading up close at small sizes. |
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http://www.ric.edu/mrodrigues/webguide/serif.htm
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| | Readabilty - making pages easy to read by design |
| | Sans-serif fonts are more readable than serifs on pixel-based displays, because they are simpler, which translates well to low-resolutions. | | | Serif fonts have worked well for hundreds of years. | | | The serifs - the flowing marks at the points of letters - work by leading the eye on to the next letter, making for a smoother and easier read. |
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http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/readability.cfm
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| | creativepro.com - dot-font: Not Your Father's Sans Serif |
| | , which he created in the 1950s, is often called a humanist sans serif, even though it's based not on handwriting but on the lettering carved into the floor of the church of Santa Croce in Florence. | | | It's part of the cult of simplification and streamlining that inspired radical designers early in the 20th century to take up sans serif as the "modern" letter form, the letter for the Machine Age. | | | Optima is famous for being a not-quite-sans; although it has no serifs, its strokes are subtly modulated, so that the ends of apparently straight strokes are slightly wider than the middle of the same strokes. |
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http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/17185.html
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| | Is there a TRUE definition for "sans serif"? Typophile |
| | Goudy Sans and ITC Serif Gothic were both created by their respective designers in order to “be different” from the norm, and as such, were named by the designers themselves to reflect the intent. | | | As there is a subcatagory for serifs - hybrid serif (tiny serifs). | | | The most unique aspect of the Goudy Sans type family is that it offered an almost complete set of incredible cap alternates which are no longer available in fonts today. |
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http://www.typophile.com/node/12668
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| | The World of Fonts. Sans Serif History - webreference.com |
| | When the first examples of sans serif fonts finally appeared, they seemed so controversial that the first name given to them was "grotesque," and they were very rarely used except in advertising. | | | But it was also the time when a completely different font design was booming, called sans serif (which is French for "without serifs"). | | | It wasn't an absolutely new idea at that time, since first sans serif faces had appeared in the beginning of 19th century; but never before this seemingly peripheral and exotic trend claimed so much importance as in 1920s and 30s. |
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http://www.webreference.com/dlab/9802/sansserif.html
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| | What are "Serif" and "Sans-serif" fonts? |
| | Sans-serif fonts (from the French word "sans" that means without) are all those fonts which have letters with straight lines and no curls or appendixes. | | | Serif fonts are mostly used in newspapers and books when text is small and tight. | | | Serif fonts include: Times, Palatino, Garamond, Century Schoolbook, Book Antiqua, and all other fonts characterized by tiny appendixes at the end of their forms. |
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http://www.masterviews.com/2002/01/15/what_are_serif_and_sansserif_fonts.htm
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| | Penumbra Serif Std |
| | Hidy says about his typeface: “Penumbra is an ‘androgynous’ letterform which morphs seamlessly between the worlds of sans serif and serif. | | | Penumbra’s style range from a Futura-like sans serif to a Sistina-like serif can be successfully used in myriad display situations. | | | Hidy derived Penumbra from his poster lettering-monoline forms with a blending of contemporary and traditional qualities, which has evolved since the 1970s. |
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http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_1113.html
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| | Typotheque: Fedra Sans |
| | Fedra Sans is a multilingual contemporary sans serif typeface developed for a visual identities, designed to work equally well on paper and on the computer screen. | | | Fedra Sans appears to work exceptionally well in small point sizes, while it is elegant and distinguishable in larger ones. |
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http://www.typotheque.com/fedra_sans
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| | ITC Stone Overview |
| | The Humanist Sans is a full-fledged member of the itc Stone super family having the same x-height, stroke weights, and proportions as the original Sans, Serif and Informal designs. | | | Serif, Sans, and Informal and now Humanist Sans are designed as integrated parts of a superfamily. | | | The newest family in the itc Stone clan is the Humanist Sans. |
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http://www.stonetypefoundry.com/html_pages/ITCStoneOverview.html
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