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3.0 KiB
HTML
60 lines
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-us">
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<head>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
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<meta name="dc.language" scheme="rfc1766" content="en-us" />
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<!-- All rights reserved. Licensed Materials Property of IBM -->
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<!-- US Government Users Restricted Rights -->
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<!-- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by -->
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<!-- GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. -->
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<meta name="dc.date" scheme="iso8601" content="2005-09-06" />
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<meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" />
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<meta name="security" content="public" />
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<meta name="Robots" content="index,follow"/>
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<meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true r (SS~~000 1))' />
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<title>Font attributes and font types</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ibmidwb.css" />
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ic.css" />
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</head>
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<body>
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<a id="Top_Of_Page" name="Top_Of_Page"></a><!-- Java sync-link -->
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<script language = "Javascript" src = "../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<a name="rzalufontattrib"></a>
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<h4 id="rzalufontattrib">Font attributes and font types</h4>
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<p>Font attributes are the characteristics or properties that combine to give
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a font identity. For example, attributes can be 14 point (height of the font),
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bold, and italic.</p>
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<p>The following are types of fonts: </p>
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<dl>
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<dt class="bold">Mixed pitch</dt>
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<dd>Simulates proportionally spaced fonts. Characters in the font have a
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limited number of widths. Overall spacing is about 12 characters per inch.
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Examples are Document or Essay fonts.
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</dd>
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<dt class="bold">Uniformly spaced</dt>
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<dd>Similar to typewriter fonts. Characters in the font are all the same
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width. Examples are Courier and Gothic Text fonts. Some uniformly spaced fonts
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and many typographic fonts are scalable. For scalable fonts, specify a point
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size to indicate the size of the font. For example a 12 point uniformly spaced
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font corresponds to 10 CPI. An example of such a font is font 416, Courier
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Roman Medium. If no point size is specified when using scalable fonts, 10
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point is defaulted.
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</dd>
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<dt class="bold">Typographic</dt>
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<dd>Typographic fonts have variable height, measured in points (1 point
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= 1/72 inch). Therefore, a 36-point font has characters that are 1/2 inch
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high. Typographic fonts have variable widths. Width is part of the design
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and varies on a character-by-character basis. Examples are Sonoran Serif
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and Century Schoolbook.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<div class="mmobj">
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<img src="rv2h301.gif" alt="Font spacing differences" /></div>
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<a id="Bot_Of_Page" name="Bot_Of_Page"></a>
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</body>
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</html>
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