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Futura Display in a specimen book. Released in 1932, Futura Display uses more angular strokes, resulting in rectangular letter forms. This is also the font used on the covers of the classic Region 2 Doctor Who DVD covers, and was used on the covers of most Star Trek novels published by Pocket Books during the 1980s.
Metrically compatible with. Carlito. Calibri ( / kəˈliːbri /) is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Luc (as) de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2007, with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. [ 3] In Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default ...
Avenir is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1987 [ 1] and released in 1988 by Linotype GmbH . The word avenir is French for "future". As the name suggests, the family takes inspiration from the geometric style of sans-serif typeface developed in the 1920s that took the circle as a basis, such as Erbar and Futura.
Charcoal (Mac OS 9 system font) Designer: David Berlow: Chicago (pre-Mac OS 9 system font, still included with Mac OS X) Designer: Susan Kare: Adobe Clean - Adobe's now standard GUI and icon font Class: Humanist, Spurless : Clear Sans (Intel) Designer: Dan Rhatigan, George Ryan, Robin Nicholas : Clearview Designer: James Montalbano et al. Class ...
Comic Sans MS (also known by its most common name Comic Sans) is a sans-serif typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation.It is a non-connecting script inspired by comic book lettering, intended for use in cartoon speech bubbles, as well as in other casual environments, such as informal documents and children's materials.
Whitney is a family of humanist sans-serif digital typefaces, designed by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones. [ 1] It was originally created for New York’s Whitney Museum as its institutional typeface. [ 2] Two key requirements were flexibility for editorial requirements and a design consistency with the Whitney Museum's existing ...
Sans-serif lettering and typefaces were popular due to their clarity and legibility at distance in advertising and display use, when printed very large or small. Because sans-serif type was often used for headings and commercial printing, many early sans-serif designs did not feature lower-case letters.
New Swiss road signs near Lugano use the typeface ASTRA-Frutiger.. Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger.It is the text version of Frutiger's earlier typeface Roissy, commissioned in 1970/71 [6] by the newly built Charles de Gaulle Airport at Roissy, France, which needed a new directional sign system, which itself was based on Concorde, a font Frutiger ...