typeface
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈtaɪpˌfeɪs/
- Specialized
:
tipo de letra
- The designer chose a modern typeface that improved the readability of the website.
- typeface characteristics
- legibility of typefaces
- serif typefaces
Every good designer doesn't use more than a few typefaces.
- Every good designer doesn't use more than a few typefaces.
- Like it has a modern sensibility in its typeface and in the types of photographs and the manner in which they're laid out.
- Just literally just the language of it, the typeface of it.
Examples
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Like it has a modern sensibility in its typeface and in the types of photographs and the manner in which they're laid out.
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For a summary of the distinctions between old-style and modern typefaces, see De Vinne, Practice 188-90.
Academic text (2017) -
A typeface specifically designed to make the very act of reading more natural.
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Each word has been cut from a different page and is in a different typeface.
Fiction book (1992) -
I liked the gothic typeface on the name "Sunset View."
Academic text (2007) -
The Three is printed on the cover in some dramatic bold typeface.
Fiction book (2002) -
Some analysts outside CBS... ...say they believe the typeface on these memos is New Times Roman... ...which they claim was not available in the 1970s.
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Its primary products are the typefaces that give computer printouts an analog look.
Academic text (2000) -
The size corresponds with a Venetian octavo, and the typeface is an Italian one.
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Submit original line art, prepared in the required journal format, using the Helios Condensed typeface or the equivalent.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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3.7
The letters or characters used in printing, like those on a page
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2.8
A design for letters and numbers used in printing or on screens
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7.8
A style of letters used in printing and on screens
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7.7
A font without small lines at the ends of letters like Arial
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3.9
A font with letters that have no small lines at the ends
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6.1
An upright letter style with small lines at the ends used for printed text like in books
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5.3
Upright letters used for normal printed text in books, not slanted like italics
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4.1
A style of letters with straight lines and simple shapes used in ancient Rome
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9.0
A heavy dark printed letter style used in old European books
A set of letters and symbols in one size and style
The style of letters shown on a computer or phone screen
Upright printed letters used for normal text in books and newspapers
A style of printed letters with small lines on the ends, used in books and magazines
A font where letters and symbols have different widths
A style of text where every letter takes the same amount of space
A print style where each letter takes the same space, like an old typewriter
A set of letters stored on a small cartridge you put into a printer to print in a new style
How Readable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word typeface comes from type, meaning 'a printed letter', and face, meaning 'appearance'. So a typeface is the 'face' or look of letters, the design used in printing and on screens.