English fonts used in web design

CSS in the text control in the previous article has a lot of introduction, but about the font has not. Today to introduce some English fonts, I hope that in the future font settings, to your coding help.


Arial


Arial is a set of sans-serif TrueType fonts that are distributed with multiple sets of Microsoft apps. Although the proportion and character weight (weight) and Helvetica are very similar, but Arial is actually Monotype grotesque series of variants. When you design Arial, consider using it on your computer, making minor adjustments and changes to the font and kerning to increase its readability at different resolutions on the computer screen.


Helvetica


Helvetica is a widely used western sans serif font, and is the Swiss graphic designer Max · Mieding (Max Miedinger) was designed in 1957. Helvetica is regarded as a typical representative of modernism in the field of font design. In the modernist view, fonts should be "like a transparent container", allowing readers to focus on what the text conveys when they read, without paying attention to the font used in the text itself. Because of the existence of this feature, Helvetica is suitable for expressing various kinds of information and has been widely used in the graphic design field.


Tahoma


Tahoma is a very common sans serif font with a similar font structure to Verdana, with a smaller character spacing and a larger range of Unicode character sets. Tahoma and Verdana from the same gate, the same designer Matthew Carter's work, launched by Microsoft in 1999. Many people who dislike Arial fonts often switch to Tahoma, except because Tahoma is easy to get, but also because Tahoma does not have some of the shortcomings of Arial, such as uppercase "I" and lowercase "l" difficult to distinguish.


Verdana


Verdana, is a set of sans serif fonts, because it still has a clear structure in the small print, reading identification, such as easy to read the performance of high quality, so in 1996 after the launch is quickly become a favorite in many areas of the standard font. "Verdana" is composed of the words "verdant" and "Ana". "Verdant" means "green", symbolizing the "Emerald City" of Seattle and the "Evergreen State" of the state of Washington. "Ana" comes from the name of Virginia Huile's big daughter.


Lucida Grande


Lucida Grande is a kind of Western-style sans serif font, which belongs to humanism. It is the default font for Apple's Mac OS X operating system. As a member of the Lucida Font family, its designers are Charles Biguero (Charles Bigelow) and Chris Holmes (Kris Holmes). Its digital version belongs to TrueType and runs through the entire Mac OS X graphical user interface.


Times New Roman


times New Roman (Teixos), probably one of the most common and widely known serif fonts, is a transitional liner in font design and has a far-reaching effect on later glyphs. In addition, because of its normal, well-organized classic appearance, it is often selected as one of the standard fonts. More knowledge, (www.3lian.com)


Georgia


Georgia is a serif font, designed for Microsoft by the famous font designer Matthew Carter (Matthew Carter) in 1993, with features that can be clearly identified under the small print, with excellent readability. Its name was written as a test headline from a tabloid newspaper that found an alien skull in Georgia. Microsoft has included Georgia in the core font of the Web page, which is one of the built-in fonts for Windows systems. Apple's Macintosh system followed Georgia as one of the built-in fonts.