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What if there was only one flavor ice cream – and it was vanilla? That’s kind of what the world of print would be like if there was only one kind of print style.
Different styles of print are called fonts. Think about party invitations, formal announcements, holiday cards, place cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, and clothing labels. What makes them look special is the style of print or font. Even online documents that need to look good like websites and ads need cool fonts.
To begin with, there are several different classifications of fonts. Each of these classifications is made up of individual typefaces. Once you understand what makes up a particular classification, you’ll be able to tell what kind of font is being used in a particular design.
• Oldstyle is the oldest classification and dates back to the earliest days of printing.
• Modern typefaces started around the time of the industrial revolution and were designed primarily for display uses.
• Slab Serif fonts are simpler than their predecessor styles.
• Sans Serif fonts have been around since the 1800s and differ from their predecessors in that there are no serifs (sans) attached to the characters.
• Decorative fonts are used primarily for headlines and other display uses because they are difficult to read when used at a small size.
• Script fonts imitate script handwriting and are commonly used for invitations.
Your computer probably came with many fonts. But sometimes none of these may be exactly what you want. That’s when you go online and look at specialty font websites like fonts.com. That’s where I found a font to use for a school report on the Mayflower Compact for one of my kids and a font for ancient Greek-looking signs for another kid’s junior prom. With a fonts.com coupon on Coupon Cactus I got 10% of the font of the month and another 6% cash back on every font I purchased.
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