Using fonts and varying the appearance of text
Introduction to fonts and typefaces
A font is a collection of characters (letters, digits and punctuation symbols) of a particular design and size. The typeface of a font is the design style of the charac- ters. The typeface lends a font its distinctive appear- ance. There are hundreds of different typefaces in existence.
Courier
Palatino
Bookman
Univers
Helvetica
Some typefaces, for example Times and Palatino, have small curly hooks on the ends of the lines that form the characters. These hooks are known as seriLfs and make body text more readable by leading the eye on from one letter to the next. Other typefaces, for example Univers and Helvetica, do not have these hooks and are referred to as sans sery(without serr typefaces. Characters in these typefaces stand out on their own. Generally fonts with seriftypefaces are used for body text and sans serif typefaces are used for headings and captions
Fonts are either monospaced (fixed) or proportionally- spaced. Font spacing is inherent in the typeface. Of the typefaces shown above, Courier is monospaced, and the rest are
The characters in a monospaced font all have equal width and occupy an equal amount of space on a line. The characters of a
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