Sentence examples for typeface from inspiring English sources

Could the interrobang be next‽Dig deeper: Doves, a legendary typeface, gets a second life (December 2013) Apostopholypse now: a punctuation drama in Devon (March 2013) Quebec's language police reach new heights of barminess (July 2013).

Pure, a typeface created for Nokia, works in 21 alphabets including Tamil, Gurmukhi and in an April fool's joke last year Klingon.

It invented its own typeface, suited to both English and Korean.

The ancient Gothic typeface announcing the title of the paper, and its catalogue of subtitles Weekly Commercial Times, etc, etc had already been dropped in January 1934.

Articles in The Economist are set in Ecotype, an exclusive typeface; the governments of the Netherlands, Germany and Britain have recently designed their own.Cobden-Sanderson had told no one of his intention to dispose of the type, for fear his plans might be thwarted, but once he had done the deed he wanted the world to know.

At over 400 pages, it is a solid tome, handsomely produced with an attractive typeface and some interesting, and sometimes unusual, illustrations.

Everything else is up for grabs.Depending on a reader's hardware or software, he may change the typeface or its size, the margins of a page, a paragraph's justification (ragged at the edge of the right column or fully square against it) and other elements.

(For the uninitiated: a typeface is the design; a font is its instantiation in a particular set of characters; type refers to characters in a font, whether letters, punctuation or esoteric symbols).Operating systems (OSs) display two kinds of image objects: bitmaps and vectors.

But the choice of Johnston Sans, the typeface of the London Tube, for chapter headings is a lovely touch.

Guess wrong, and the error is imperceptible at first; but lined up in text the letter looks awkward, the typeface distracting.That painstaking process is similar to the technique Cobden-Sanderson and Walker used to create the Doves type, itself a confection of two earlier designs.

Subjects have to think harder to identify the colour red, for example, if it is used as the typeface for the printed word "yellow".