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Super Guardian is a modern futuristic sans font with a bold feel. It will add a contemporary update to any design project. On top of everything, it has a techno feel to it, making it ideal for titles, subtitles and UI.
Using bold and different font sizes can help create division and guide the eye of the reader to the important bits. Using bullet points can create focus and force you as the writer to get to the point. If you want to write a block of text, put it in your cover letter!
Nunito is a well-balanced sans serif typeface superfamily, with 2 versions. We wanted our users to enjoy using our products and the right font is an important part of their experience. For our Dashboard UI we selected Nunito, as it is a more rounded font which is easy to read and great for all types of applications including print and online. With this in use we decided to go for a more bold typeface and Nunito Sans fitted perfectly. The selection of weights gave us ample room to experiment and adjust the typeface to suit our designs, whilst still remaining consistent.
I'm curious about the font used for the jacket of "Visual Explanations" and here on your website. What's it called, who designed it and can I get a copy?Thanks, a loyal fan. -- Aaron Swartz (email) The display font is Gill Sans, a classic and elegant sans serif font. Gill designed several excellent fonts, which are widely available. In addition to the display font at this website, I use Gill sans a few places in Enivisioning Information and in Visual Explantions. -- Edward Tufte
Serif vs. Sans SerifWe have been having a debt at my work about which font to use (serif or sans serif) for large blocks of text. I believe a serif (garamond, for example) would be great to use, but others disagree with me. I'm hoping to get a response from Mr. Tufte, but will take any other suggestions. Thanks, Erin -- Erin C (email)
Traditionally serif fonts are used for large blocks of text, but there's some question about whether the serifs are inherently helpful in and of themselves, or whether we recognize serif letterforms more quickly simply because that's just what we are all used to. In my view it doesn't really matter why we recognize them more quickly, but we do.A typeface should help reinforce the meaning of the text. A typeface sets a tone. It would be as inappropriate to set an apocalyptic science-fiction novel in a Renaissance typeface as it would be to set the Bible in a geometric sans serif. -- Aaron Priven (email)
Aaron Priven remarks that use of sans serif fonts for religious text would be considered inappropriate. A view I wholeheartedly agree with. However, the United Bible Societies do not. Their 4th edition of the Greek New Testament is printed in a hideous sans serif font. Could they make it worse? Yes, they did --- they printed the body text in italic!! They also made it bold italic sans serif with the glyphs so heavy that it is impossible to use unless you possess 20/20 vision and an megawatt search light. Until UBS produces a 5th edition in a sensible font I'll make do with my ancient edition originally published by BFBS in the 1950s. There'sa huge amount of information crammed on the page but it remains legible to those of us with less than normal vision and in less than perfect lighting despite the page size being smaller than UBS4. -- Trevor Jenkins (email)
Note though that slab serif (aka Egyptian) fonts are never used for body text; they were intended as display faces and work best used as such. On a screen, where your resolution may be as low as 72 DPI and seldom exceeds 120 DPI, serifs cannot be as fine as they are designed to be; all serif fonts become slab serifs at body text sizes. You can overcome this heaviness in the serifs to some extent by adding extra leading, setting type at larger sizes, and using a serif font designed to cope with the poor display conditions (in other words, intended as a slab serif that's legible at body text sizes). I know of two such faces - Bitstream Vera Serif and Georgia. The former is open source, the latter is widely distributed. At small sizes on screens though, legibility is better served by sticking to a sans-serif font designed for screen use, such as Bitstream Vera Sans or Verdana. -- viveka (email)
I just attended the one-day seminar in Crystal City, Virginia, it was amazing. There is so much to learn here, I know I'll be going over the books and my notes for a long time to come. I haven't yet found the answer to this question, though, which is why I'm writing in. I have a question about what font to use on a website and whether it should be serif or sans serif, or what kind of mix to use. I notice that on this website you mix Arial and Helvetica with Times and Times New Roman, using the serif font for most of the text. Could you please explain the thinking behind the mix of fonts, why one is used over the other, and where and in what context it's best to use one over the other? I would really appreciate your thoughts on this, E.T. Thank you for the great, stimulating and information-packed seminar. -- Rich C (email)
About the only real design typographic choice made in the site design was the use of Gill Sans as our display font. As I recall, on the text font I was presented with one serif and one sans-serif web font and so I let it go at that. My view was just make a competent workaday web design and that the content would make or break the site.In general, I like to see as much design as possible as a solved problem and then get on with the content issues and the substantive analysis. Thus, for the books, I have pretty much stayed with the typography and grid (modestly revised) of the first book (that Howard Gralla and I did together) for the next 3 books. The page layout of images and text does shift from spread to spread depending upon the content. That is the real design work in the books for me.In general, I use Gill Sans and ETBembo for everything in print; those typefaces are beautiful and work for my purposes. There is no content-need to develop new typographic styles for my work. There are too many substantive matters to think about and thus I want to limit the number of design decisions. Thus I try not to re-open solved typographic designs. -- Edward Tufte
I have a question and I need advice from experienced book designers. What is your opinion of mixing fonts in a book, i.e. using a serif font for the text and using a sans serif font for all of the subheads, chapters heads, pullout quotes, etc. Is there a standard rule here? Any advice you have for me would be appreciated. Thank you! -- Janet Schwind (email)
My thoughts exactly. I miss the old masthead (with the often imitated serif/sans and italic/bold combination), but I accept that it would be out of place in the new design (and I agree, the new fonts are wonderful). The centre-spread is great, and the thing as an object is much eaiser to handle.
We had some really interesting usability-discussions in the past about necessary buttons in core editor and if you ask 10 different people you get 10 different answers: ask your users who needs different font families, font sizes, formats, undo, redo, find, find/replace, full screen mode, bold, italic, underline, alignment, cleanup messy code, remove formatting, paste as plain text, paste from word, text colors, background colors, direction (LTR/RTL), lists, indents, links, unlinks, prevent automatic links, images, emoticons, media, equations, symbols, tables, spellchecker or HTML?
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