Surprisingly, all the fonts that exist in the world differ in only three ways: typeface, size, and style. A key point deserves special attention - a headset that can completely transform any text. About this, as well as about ways to change font settings in a text editor and with HTML-layout further.
What is a font?
A font is a set of images of alphabet symbols, numbers, executed in one format, style, design, in other words, it is an analogue of handwriting. The first fonts for cars were created on the basis of official "manual" handwriting. A handwritten half-mouth is at the heart of many Cyrillic fonts, and Gothic writing has become the basis for Latin character styles.
Absolutely all computer "handwriting" differ from each other in just three ways: size, typeface, font style.
Typeface
The most important parameter in typography. A font headset is a set in one or several sizes, distinguished by the stylistic unity of the image of alphanumeric, punctuation and special characters. Headsets, consisting only of mathematical values or special characters, such as cartographic ones, are frequent.
The concepts of “headset” and “font” are often confused due to the similarity of their subject, especially in text editors. However, the first is much wider, because the typeface determines the style of the entire text, and it can be limited by the unity of execution, for example, in italics only.
Many headsets are known to PC users: Courier New, Calibri, Arial, Times New Roman. All names are written in Latin letters, even if the font typeface was created by Russian developers, its transliteration or translation into English is used.
Headset Types
The font typeface is mainly divided into groups according to this classifier:
- Handwritten. This group is similar to handwritten text drawn with a brush or pen. It can be both separately and together written characters.
- Chopped. Another name is sans serif (French "without"). Sans serif characters are used. This is one of the most convenient fonts for both small labels and large highlighted headings - they are pleasing to the eye and easy to read. Such a clear and legible grotesque font is also used for marking, labeling, “inverted” text (facing the main tone of the page).
- Antiqua - serif. Experimental studies have been carried out, which established that these fonts are most convenient for reading "solid" texts - serifs automatically look from one character to another and prevent letters from merging. However, they are not good for headings, highlights - it seems that the letters are “crowded”, a sense of disorder is created. Antiqua is characterized by its traditional official appearance, therefore it is widely used in relevant texts.
- Decorative. This typeface, otherwise known as display typeface, is designed to convey some non-verbal meaning of what is written. This includes the most bizarre and unusual character styles. However, they should not be carried away in the text - it is better to decorate the display font with only a demonstration subtitle.
- Character These headsets do not contain standard numbers, letters, punctuation marks - there are only special characters necessary for thematic texts - cartographic, arithmetic, frames, etc.
Font size
A headset is the first parameter of the text, the second is the size. Otherwise, it is called the font size.
This parameter was created to facilitate reading of the text: headings are highlighted in large characters, important information, secondary (footnotes, notes) are typed in a smaller font.
In text editors, we are used to standard sizes: 8, 11, 12, 14, 18, 24, etc. Each of these values indicates the total height of the headset characters from the highest to the lowest (for example, from "D" to "p "). It is measured in special units - typographic points. One punkt (German "point") is 0.3528 mm.
Font style
The final parameter is saturation and style - the style of the characters. A font typeface is generally typed in a “direct” style or with a slight slope, in italics.
Saturation is the thickness of a character's outline. In addition to the standard, there are also "thick" varieties - bold, bold. There is also a more detailed division into super-light, light, oily and hyper-fat saturation.
Styles and saturations overlap, so you can see bold and bold italics.
Change font settings
You can change the font headset and similar parameters in the MS Word text application in one of three convenient ways:
- Through the toolbar. It is located on the main working tab of the editor directly above the sheet of text. With its help, you can not only change the headset (font name), specify the desired size, style, saturation of the text, but also select the desired color of the characters, highlight important points with underlining.
- Dialog box for formatting. In Word, it is called with the right mouse button or a combination of "hot buttons" CTRL + D. In this way, you can also call up a dialog in the Notepad program. It also allows you to set individual text parameters: typeface, size, style.
- Use hotkey combinations. When you call "Help" or click on the link "About the program", you can find a section where their full list is disclosed. To use this method, you must first select the text, and then click the desired combination. For Word, the following are running: CTRL + I - italics, CTRL + B - bold.
For HTML editing, changing the headset looks a bit more complicated:
- The first thing to do is highlight the text whose font type should be changed.
- Next, put the tag <FONT style = "FONT-FAMILY:> (after the colon, the name of the selected headset is entered, then a comma and the name of the style in English ( cursive , heavy) in front of the selected fragment.
- At the very end of the tag </FONT>.
- All changes made are saved - the result of writing the correct tags will be the text that has been changed properly.
Thus, the typeface, and with it also auxiliary parameters - size, style - when used correctly, can make the text interesting, easy to read and structured.