Typography

A Garamond is a font.

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Downloading the PowerPoint Viewer 2007 will install it in your system. It will give you all six new Vista TrueType fonts, including calibri.

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It is very hard to do that.

Font size is specified in points, as we all know, but it's measured from the top of the tallest capital letters to the bottom of the descenders.

Basically, type the letters A and p, draw a line across the top of the A and the bottom of the stem on the p, and measure between them. That's the font size. This means if you have two fonts and one of them has longer descenders than the other, 100-point type in the first face and 100-point type in the second will be very different-size type.

If you need some type that's an exact height...oh, letters three inches high to put on the sides of a boat or something...start by drawing two horizontal lines three inches apart. Put the baseline of the type on the bottom line, then start increasing the type size until the top of the letters touch the top line.

I am answering this question based on Roman characters which are phonetic based characters rather than logograms, because typography extends to languages like Chinese, Japanese and Hindi as well.

There is no definite answer I suppose because type and language evolved drastically since The Sumerians and Egyptians were communicating through cave drawings and markings. In my opinion, The phonogram based Phoenician alphabet of twenty-two characters probably has a large influence on the evolution of Roman characters since Phoenicia (present Lebanon and Syria) was an important region of trade. The language and writing was adopted by travelling merchants which helped to spread the use. The other two alphabet system I can think of would be Greek and Semitic simply because of the dominance of their civilization. Greek which came from Greece and we all know about Alexander the Great and the amount of land he conquered and Semitic which is of Middle Eastern origin.

OpenType is a new format over the earlier TrueType and PostScript Type 1 formats for fonts. As described by Microsoft and Adobe, it is technically an extension of Microsoft's TrueType Open format, which contains either PostScript or TrueType font outlines in a single font file used on both Windows and Mac. It also includes an expanded character set based on the Unicode encoding standard as well as advanced typographic intelligences for glyph positioning and glyph substitution that allows the inclusion of numerous alternatives glyphs in a single font file.

A glyph is a shape in a font that is used to represent a character code on screen - or on paper, if printed. One common example of a glyph is an actual letter. The symbols and shapes in other typefaces such as Zapf Dingbats are also glyphs, though. Letters are actually only shapes, but we see them as letters because that's how we associate them.

David Siegel, Tekton was originally released in 1989.

Jovica Veljović - born 1. 3. 1954 in Suvi Do, Yugoslavia - type designer, typographer, graphic designer, teacher.

1974-79: studies lettering and graphic design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, with a period of research studies from 1981-83. 1987-92: teaches typography at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. 1992: is made professor of type design and typography at the Department Design of the Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, Fakultät Design/Medien/Information.

He has won various awards for his work in calligraphy and typography, including the Association Typographiques Internationale (ATypI) Charles Peignot Prize (1985) and prizes at the XX October Salon in Belgrade (1979). the "ZGRAF5" international graphic design exhibition in Zagreb (1987), the XIII Biennale for Graphic-Design in Brno (1988) and the Graphics Biennale in Moscow (1996).

Fonts: ITC Veljovic® (1984), ITC Esprit® (1985), ITC Gamma® (1986), Ex Ponto® multiple master typeface (1995), Silentium™ (2000), Sava™ (2003), Libelle™ (2009), Veljovic Script™ (2009), and ITC New Esprit® (2010).

In 1992, Myriad had a whole design team that which initially included Fred Brady, Robert Slimbach, Sumner Stone, and Carol Twombly from Adobe. These folks examined sxisting sans serif designs and made preliminary pencil drawings, computer sketches, and a variety of test fonts to determine which direction to design Myriad. A collaborative approach ensured that the Myriad family maintained a clear, objective quality, without idiosyncrasies that might be introduced had only one designer worked on designing the font.

Drawing, digitization, and design work was split between Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly. It was completed in two years. Each designer was responsibly for different designs in the roman and italic fonts; then they exchanged work during final production stages to unify the Myriad family. As the project progessed, Fred Brady, Robert Slimbach, and Carol Twombly met for weekly discussions, examinations, and evaluations for Myriad as it evolved through the design process. In the later stages of design development, members of the Adobe Type Advisory board reviewed Myriad.

For the additional glyphs in the typeface Myriad Pro, work was also divided up among a small group that included Fred Brady, Christopher Slye, Robert Slimbach, and Carol Twombly. Greek and Cyrillic characters were then added to the family as well as a bunch of Latin glyphs and accented characters.

Myriad Pro is a font that is part of the Myriad family. It differs from the Sans Serif family in that it has a very distinct slanting 'e' and tail on the 'y'.

A ligature is two or more letters that are tied together into a single letter. For instance, in some typefaces, certain character combinations like fi and fl overlap, resulting in an unsightly shape. The fi and fl ligatures were designed to improve the appearance of the letters.

Em space is a relative unit of measurement used in typography. Once the size of an em is established, the size every other character and other typographic units of measurement can be determined as a fraction of em. The reason why em is used is because the letter "m" is the only letter that has relatively the same width in its capital and lowercase form. There is also something called en space. En is usually about half the width of an em so if the em space is 12 points, the en space is usually about 6 points.

An en (N) space is a common unit of measurement used in typography. Traditionally, it is defined as the width of the uppercase N used in the current typeface and point size. However, it is more properly defined as half the width of an em.

Use adobe illustrator to design the font and use the program type tool to assign the letters to the keys.

Similarity is in the eye of he beholder. The Virgin logo seems to have too few elements to make a good guess (especially the V). Hey, this is art, not font, but you'll get close on: http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/sp/200511.html

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The typeface French Script MT was created by the type designer Matthew Carter. He designed it in the 1990s for the Monotype Corporation as an elegant script font inspired by the calligraphy styles of 18th-century French handwriting.

In point sizes 72 points is equal to one inch.

However this is measured from the center of an accent mark above the capitol Å to the descender of a lower case g so the will effect the one inch measurement of a capital letter. The X height is different for each font depending on it's design.

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This is a great question with a pretty complicated answer. Basically, fonts are the letterforms used in printed or online documents. As far as the most popular fonts, Helvetica, Arial, and Times New Roman are probably the most common.

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The point size of a font is measured in height. Different typefaces have different widths of characters and an 'i' will take less width than a 'w'.

It's done in a font editor. There are free ones, and others that cost a thousand dollars. Let me describe the gravity of your task: Your standard font contains over 200 printable characters. You have to make a character for each of them, and they all have to work together as a coherent mass. And with that...if you set periodicals a font editor is a very handy thing to have. I used to design a quarterly magazine for a Special Forces veterans' group. I used my font editor to make the Special Forces Dingbats font. It contains crossed arrows, jump wings and all sorts of other small graphics that are meaningful to them. I put the crossed arrows on the A key, jump wings on the P key (P is for Parachutist), and so on. Now, if I want to separate two paragraphs with a row of jump wings, I type P a few times, change the line to Special Forces Dingbats and open up the tracking a lot. They were so happy...

The Vladimir script was created by Douglas Boling and Vladimir Cole. It is a C++ programming tool used for Windows CE development.