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Everything about Display typeface
Face designed for use at large sizes
A display typeface is a typeface that is intended for use in display type at large sizes for titles, headlines, pull quotes, and other eye-catching elements, rather than for extended passages of body text. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Display typefaceA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Computers and TypesettingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Utilising psychophysical techniques to investigate the effects of age, typeface design, size and display polarity on glance legibilityCited 39 times
- Go sideways: Sans-serifA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Slab serifA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Utilising psychophysical techniques to investigate the effects of age, typeface design, size and display polarity on glance legibility
Impact of Typeface and Colour Combinations on LCD Display Legibility
PERANCANGAN HURUF DISPLAY TYPEFACE DENGAN BERBASIS AKSARA LONTARA
PERANCANGAN TYPEFACE BALINIKI SEBAGAI FONT DISPLAY BERKARAKTERISTIK BALI
The Role of Arabic Display Font Design in Enhancing Digital Visual Communication: An Applied Study on Wassat Typeface
A Study on the Development of Hangeul for Display Typeface -Focused on the development of the digital font “Flower Binyeo”-
📚 Books worth reading
Computers and TypesettingDonald Knuth · 1986- 📕BA MPD Design History thesis 1990London College of Printing. · 1990
- 📕[ Type specimens]Cloister Press. · 1921
An atlas of typeformsSutton, James · 1968
Digital typeface libraryHarvey Karp · 1985- 📕A book of typefacesW.S. Cowell Ltd. · 1952
- 📕TypeGates, David · 1973
- 📕The typography of newspaper advertisementsSir Francis Meynell · 1929
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