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1. Adobe Garamond Pro Google Web Font

2 years ago. 3 comments There is a saying “When in doubt, use Helvetica”. No doubt, is one of the most famous and popular in the world.

It’s been used for every typographic project imaginable, not just because it is on virtually every computer. Helvetica is ubiquitous because it works so well. But wait, There is more. Not just Helvetica, If you are in doubt, you can also try these fonts that will fit in any type of projects.

So lets get in. Sidenote: You can also check some Sans Serif Fonts Proxima Nova Proxima Nova is one of the most popular web fonts, in use on thousands of websites around the world. Its created by Mark Simonson. Proxima Nova bridges the gap between typefaces like Futura and Akzidenz Grotesk. The result is a hybrid that combines modern proportions with a geometric appearance. Link: Europa Europa is a modern sans serif typeface combining geometric reduction and humanistic vitality.

Its name refers to the inspirational origins and main influences, two popular European typefaces: the geometrical sans serif Futura and the humanistic sans serif Gill Sans. Link: Brandon Grotesque Brandon Grotesque has a functional look with a warm touch. While the thin and the black weights are great performers in display sizes the light, regular and medium weights are well suited to longer texts. The small x-height and the restrained forms lend it a distinctive elegance. Link: Avenir The word Avenir means “future” in French and hints that the typeface owes some of its interpretation to Futura. But unlike Futura, Avenir is not purely geometric; it has vertical strokes that are thicker than the horizontals, an “o” that is not a perfect circle, and shortened ascenders.

These nuances aid in legibility and give Avenir a harmonious and sensible appearance for both texts and headlines. Link: Roboto Roboto is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface family developed by Google as the system font for its Android operating system. Google describes the font as “modern, yet approachable” and “emotional”. The font is licensed under the Apache license. The entire font family was officially made available for free download on January 12, 2012, on the newly launched Android Design website. The family includes Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Black weights with matching oblique styles. It also includes condensed styles in Light, Regular and Bold, also with matching oblique designs.

Link: Raleway Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface, designed by Matt McInerney in a single thin weight. It is a display face that features both old style and lining numerals, standard and discretionary ligatures, a pretty complete set of diacritics, as well as a stylistic alternate inspired by more geometric sans-serif typefaces than it’s neo-grotesque inspired default character set.

Link: Serif Fonts Adobe Garamond Pro The Adobe Garamond™ font family is based upon the typefaces first created by the famed French printer Claude Garamond in the sixteenth century. This serif face was created by Robert Slimbach and released by Adobe in 1989; its italics are influenced by the designs of Garamond’s assistant, Robert Granjon. Link: Baskerville John Baskerville spared no effort to create the ultimate typographic book.

He prepared deep black inks and smoothed paper to show to full effect the letters that he had John Handy cut from his own brilliant designs, based on a lifetime of calligraphy and stonecutting. Punches and matrices survive at the Cambridge University Press. Link: Merriweather Merriweather was designed to be a text face that is pleasant to read on screens. Designed by Eben Sorkin, Merriweather features a very large x height, slightly condensed letterforms, a mild diagonal stress, sturdy serifs and open forms. Link: Crimson Text Crimson Text is a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful oldstyle typefaces.

There are a lot of great free fonts around, but one kind is missing: those Garamond-inspired types with all the little niceties like oldstyle figures, small caps, fleurons, math characters and the like. Link: That’s all for now.

We will update this post once we get more informations on other fonts. If you have any suggestions, Please let us know in the comments.

Garamond: Why You Don't Use This Complex Font on the Web Garamond: Why You Don't Use This Complex Font on the Web A book that helps developers & programmers learn web design. It’s a best-seller (#18 on all of Amazon). By Amongst designers – especially print designers – Garamond is considered one of the best fonts in existence.

It’s timeless, and very readable. But, because of the limitations of current display technologies, it’s not a good font to use in web copy – even with the advent of font embedding methodologies such as and. One of the most important principles behind every good piece of design is that the designer has to master his or her medium.

With any medium – whether it’s pencil and paper, steel and glass, or pixels – the designer has to work with strengths and limitations. Work with these characteristics, and the design stands a chance to be good – work against them, and there is no chance. Apple’s lead designer, Jonathan Ive knows this. He recently The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material – the material informs the form Medium and Form in Type History Typography is the perfect vehicle with which to illustrate this concept throughout history. From the beginning, the forms of our letters have been influenced by the tools we used to create them. This is an early example of how medium influenced form in written communication. You can see, looking at these pictograms, that they are made up of a series of indentions that are pretty much identical.

This is because they were formed using a wedge-shaped stylus. As this language was replaced in the west by our current roman characters, and the tools which we used changed, so did the form of our letters. Some of the best examples of early typography using roman characters are from – you guessed it – the Roman empire. This is graffiti from the ancient city of Pompeii.

It was created using a brush, and this is apparent in the letterforms. You can see there’s a great deal of variation in the strokes that make up the letters, and they all terminate with a soft point, just like you would expect from a brush. This graffiti was clearly created with a brush.

Adobe Garamond Pro Google Web Font

Photo by Here’s a picture I took from Pompeii that – dating back to the same time (remember, this city was frozen in time when it was buried under volcanic ash in 79AD). Only this time, the sign was chiseled in stone – and you can see how this has influenced the letters: all of the strokes of the letters are uniform in width, and to make the ends of those strokes looks nice – serifs were added. You can see little spur serifs from where the chisel was applied perpendicular to the stroke of each of these letters. Now, moving more quickly through history, we have letters from the column of Trajan (which inspired today’s Trajan font), which were formed first by brush, then by chisel (it would have been awkward to chisel letters like the brush-drawn ones in the earlier Pompeii example).

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Then we moved on to lead and wood-cut printing, which first imitated work done by scribes with pens.