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WYSIWYG (pronounced "wizzy-wig" or "wuzzy-wig") is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, and is used in computing to describe a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product. It is commonly used for word processors, but has other applications, such as Web (HTML) authoring. WYSIWYG - Meaning. The term describes a user interface that allows the user to view something very similar ...

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The pictograms or "symbol signs" used by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) are intended to convey information useful to travelers without resorting to verbal language. Among these pictograms, for example, are the now-familiar graphics representing "Toilets" and "Telephone." Since their introduction in 1974, they have found widespread use in airports, train stations, hotels and other public places not only in the United States but also around the world. As a result of this near-universal acceptance, some describe the ...

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The University of Lincoln is one of the newest universities in the United Kingdom, founded in its current form in 1996. It is located primarily in the city of Lincoln but also has campuses in Riseholme, Holbeach and Hull. Its corporate logo is the head of the Roman goddess Minerva. The official fonts of the University of Lincoln are Goudy Modern and Helvetica. Its official corporate colour is Pantone 398 (roughly, HTML colour code #B8C400). University of Lincoln - History. Despite being an ancient cathedral ...

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Bitstream Inc. is a type foundry that produces digital typefaces (fonts). Founded in 1981 by Matthew Carter and Mike Parker among others, it claims to be the oldest such company. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Besides building a library of "classic" fonts (usually under different names for trademark reasons), Bitstream has developed a number of fonts itself. The Bitstream font collection is most widely used through its inclusion with the CorelDraw software. Bitstream also created the free font Bitstream Vera. Another Bitstream product is Font Fusion, a font rast ...

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In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of grapheme (i.e., character) designs. A typeface is usually comprised of an alphabet of letters, numerals, and punctuation marks. Helvetica, Century Schoolbook, and Courier are three examples of typefaces. A typeface may also include or consist of ideograms and symbols (e.g., mathematical or map-making glyphs). The art of designing typefaces, called typ ...

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Despite being an ancient cathedral city, Lincoln had been without its own university well into the 1990s. At last in 1993 a project company was founded to build a full university campus on disused industrial land at the southwest end of Lincoln's city centre. This was to be combined with the existing University of Humberside to form a new University of Lincolnshire and Humberside. In 1996 when the new, modern campus beside Lincoln's Brayford Pool was opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II, it was both the most recently-created University in the UK and yet an institution with a 1 ...

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There are numerous basic components of the Federal Identity Program: the Canada wordmark and two corporate signature types with national symbols and bilingual titles, all of which are rendered consistently. Federal Identity Program - Canada wordmark. The Canada wordmark is mandatory on virtually all of the applications mentioned above. Established in 1980, the Canada wordmark is essentially a logo for the Government of Canada: it consists of the word "Canada" written in a serif font, a modified version of ...

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Federal Identity Program, Federal Identity Program - Applications, Federal Identity Program - Components, Federal Identity Program - Canada wordmark, Federal Identity Program - Corporate signatures, Federal Identity Program - External link

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On the Macintosh, fonts were drawn from hand-tuned font files that specified individual pixel locations for a font at a particular size. If the user wanted to see a font at another size, the Font Manager found the closest match and applied a basic scaling algorithm. When scaled to large sizes the effect was comical– since these fonts were bitmapped, they would scale the way a bitmapped image does, becoming blocky. In contrast, printer fonts for the popular Apple LaserWriter were based on PostScript Type 1 (and 3) outlines, resulting ...

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TrueType, TrueType - TrueType history: Apple, TrueType - TrueType history: Microsoft, TrueType - TrueType on Mac and Windows today, TrueType - TrueType on Linux and other platforms, TrueType - Technical note: outlines, TrueType - Technical note: hinting language

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The Manchester Guardian was founded in Manchester in 1821 by a group of non-conformist businessmen headed by John Edward Taylor. The prospectus which announced the new publication proclaimed that "it will zealously enforce the principles of civil and religious Liberty … it will warmly advocate the cause of Reform; it will endeavour to assist in the diffusion of just principles of Political Economy; and to support, without reference to the party from which ...

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The Guardian, The Guardian - Ownership, The Guardian - History, The Guardian - Moving to the Berliner paper format, The Guardian - Supplements and features, The Guardian - Regular columns, The Guardian - Online media, The Guardian - The Guardian in the popular imagination, The Guardian - References in fiction, The Guardian - Literary patronage, The Guardian - Editors, The Guardian - Notable regular contributors past and present, The Guardian - The Newsroom archive

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For the purposes of type classification sans-serif designs broadly divide into four major groups: Grotesque, early sans-serif designs, such as Grotesque or Royal Gothic. Neo-grotesque or Transitional, modern designs such as Standard, Helvetica, Arial, and Univers. These are the most common sans-serif fonts. They are relatively straight in appearance and have less line width variation than Humanist sans-serif typefaces. Transitional sans-serif is sometimes called "anonymous sans-serif" d ...

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Sans-serif, Sans-serif - Classification

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Apple typography - TrueType and PostScript. Main articles: TrueType and PostScript TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s, and later licensed to Microsoft, as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript, which had come to dominate the field of desktop publishing. The outlines of the characters in TrueType fonts are made of straight line segments and quadratic Bézier curves, rather than the cubic Bézier curves in Type 1 fonts. Whil ...

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Apple typography, Apple typography - Corporate fonts and brand identity, Apple typography - Motter Tektura, Apple typography - Apple Garamond, Apple typography - Adobe Myriad, Apple typography - Other fonts used in Apple's marketing, Apple typography - Fonts of the original Macintosh, Apple typography - Naming, Apple typography - Variants, Apple typography - The Apple logo, Apple typography - List, Apple typography - Fonts in Mac OS X, Apple typography - Keyboards, Apple typography - Fonts used in other products, Apple typography - Font management and capabilities, Apple typography - System 6.0.8 and earlier, Apple typography - System 7 – Mac OS 9, Apple typography - Mac OS X, Apple typography - Third-party font managers, Apple typography - Font technology, Apple typography - TrueType and PostScript, Apple typography - Proprietary technology, Apple typography - Hinting technology, Apple typography - Subpixel rendering

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Traffic sign - North America and Australia. The North American colors and the Australian colours are normally significant as followed: green with white letters for informational signs, such as directions, distances, and places brown with white for signs to parks, historic sites, ski areas, forests, and campgrounds blue with white for rest areas, food, gasoline or petrol, and lodging white with red or black letters for regulatory signs, such as speed limits or parkin ...

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Traffic sign, Traffic sign - History, Traffic sign - Categorization, Traffic sign - United States of America, Traffic sign - Design, Traffic sign - North America and Australia, Traffic sign - Europe, Traffic sign - Central and South America, Traffic sign - Asia, Traffic sign - Africa

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Cigarette packets and other tobacco packaging must include warnings in the same size and format and using the same approved texts (in the appropriate local languages) in all member states of the European Union. These warnings are displayed in black Helvetica bold on a white background with a thick black border. Ireland prefaces its warnings with "Irish Government Warning". In member states with more than one official language the warnings are displayed in all languages, with the sizes adjusted accordingly (for example in Belgium the m ...

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Tobacco packaging warning signs, Tobacco packaging warning signs - United States of America, Tobacco packaging warning signs - Australia, Tobacco packaging warning signs - Canada, Tobacco packaging warning signs - European Union, Tobacco packaging warning signs - United Kingdom and Ireland, Tobacco packaging warning signs - France, Tobacco packaging warning signs - Italy, Tobacco packaging warning signs - Russian Federation, Tobacco packaging warning signs - Spoof cigarette warnings

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Because designers of WYSIWYG applications typically have to account for a variety of different output devices, each of which has different capabilities, there are a number of problems that must be solved in each implementation. These can be seen as trade-offs between multiple design goals, and hence applications that use different solutions may be suitable for different purposes. Typically, the design goals of a WYSIWYG application may include: Provide high-quality printed output on a particular printer Provide h ...

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A font, from Middle French fonte, meaning "(something that has been) melt(ed) [akin to Fondue]" and referring to letters of a typeface produced by casting molten metal at a type foundry, consists of a set of glyphs (images) representing the characters from a particular character set in a particular typeface. Historically, fonts came in specific sizes (governing the actual height of the characters), and in sorts (governing the quantities of each letter provided). The design of a given character in a font took into account ...

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Typeface, Typeface - History, Typeface - Typeface anatomy, Typeface - Serifs, Typeface - Proportionality, Typeface - Measurements, Typeface - Types of font, Typeface - Texts used to demonstrate typefaces, Typeface - Legal aspects of typefaces, Typeface - Organizations

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In 1974, the DOT, recognizing the shortcomings of pictograms drawn on an ad hoc basis across the United States interstate highway system, commissioned the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) to produce a comprehensive set of pictograms. In collaboration with Cook and Shanosky Associates, the designers conducted an exhaustive survey of pictograms already in use around the world, drawing from sources as diverse as Tokyo International Airport and the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. The designers rated these pictograms based on criteria such ...

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D.O.T. pictograms, D.O.T. pictograms - History

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Univers enjoyed great popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, becoming the sans-serif typeface most favoured by designers at that time, and has been used by the new Swiss International Air Lines (Swissair, the predecessor of Swiss, used the typeface Futura), Deutsche Bank and for signage all over the world. Apple Computer uses this typeface as well as its italic variant for the keycaps on many of their keyboards. It is known for its clear lines and legibility at great distances. Many have said how its elegant design will make it memorable for a long time into the future. The Paris Metro also ...

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Univers, Univers - Usage

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In fiction, a character is usually considered a grotesque if he induces both empathy and disgust. (A character who inspires disgust alone is simply a villain or a monster.) Obvious examples would include the physically deformed and the mentally deficient, but people with cringe-worthy social traits are also included. The reader becomes piqued by the grotesque's positive side, and continues reading to see if the character can conquer his darker side. Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of the most celebrated grotesques in literature. Dr. Frankenstein's ...

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Grotesque, Grotesque - In art history, Grotesque - In typography, Grotesque - In literature, Grotesque - In architecture, Grotesque - In chess, Grotesque - Etymology

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Frutiger is considered one of the classics of modern typography and forms the basis of many other modern typefaces, such as Bitstream Vera and Verdana. It is currently used by the UK National Health Service for its new corporate identity. In the Bitstream font collection, Frutiger is part of the Humanist sans-serif classification. The specific equivalent to the Frutiger family is Humanist 777. Linotype, the type foundry which originally released Frutiger in 1976, developed a revised version named Frutiger NEXT in 1999, the letterforms for ...

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List of typefaces - Calligraphic. AMS Euler Apple Chancery Scriptina (freeware script font, comparable to Zapfino) Zapf Chancery Zapfino List of typefaces - Handwriting. Ashley Script Comic Sans Dom Casual Kristen (typeface) Lucida Handwriting Tekton List of typefaces - Miscellaneous. Cupola Curlz Script (vector font included with ...

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List of typefaces, List of typefaces - Serif, List of typefaces - Sans serif, List of typefaces - Semiserif, List of typefaces - Display, List of typefaces - Monospaced, List of typefaces - Script, List of typefaces - Calligraphic, List of typefaces - Handwriting, List of typefaces - Miscellaneous, List of typefaces - Blackletter, List of typefaces - Non-English, List of typefaces - Unicode, List of typefaces - Dingbat/Symbol fonts, List of typefaces - Miscellaneous

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