Font Styles

There are many font styles around us; on TV, on internet, text editors, design programs and so on. We are communicating through these font styles on the written media. At old times there were not so many font styles, through ages of written literature (and any kind of media) new fonts were invented and today still new font styles are being introduced to the people.

There is a misconception about usage typefaces and fonts. A lot of people use typeface and font interchangeably. But they are two different things. A typeface is a set of typographical symbols and characters. It’s the letters, numbers, and other characters that let us put words on paper (or screen). A font, on the other hand, is traditionally defined as a complete character set within a typeface, often of a particular size and style. Fonts are also specific computer files that contain all the characters and glyphs within a typeface.

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The font styles change readers’ the ability to read, understand, and use what you publish. So, in fact it is a important decision to decide to which font style should be used in books, articles, designs, advertisements and other areas of the daily life. Continue reading