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Nice Web Type likes , a series of CSS @font-face examples and typesetting advice. Follow. Try Bello and Proxima Nova Try Museo and Sans Try Graublau Sans with Lucida Nice Web Type likes Museo and Sans

• Check the footer for colophon and additional notes. Here’s how this page should look . ALL ABOARD ALL ABOARD THE EXLJBRIS EXPRESS: MUSEO AND SANS THE EXLJBRIS EXPRESS: MUSEO AND SANS FREIGHTAGE Museo and Museo Sans are available in several freights. Er, weights. Use these to your advantage by setting display text in light weights for even typographic color , or heavier weights for pop. ROLLING STOCK Web layouts, like railroads, must oblige a hodgepodge of constituent aesthetics. Our job is crud mitigation . Helvetica can understudy both Museo and Sans, but it isn ʼ t a perfect choice. COUPLING Linking serif with sans can be difficult, but typefaces designed as siblings make things much easier! Use the free Museo Sans italic , for instance, in your 500- weig ht Museo. And more. RAIL GAUGE You might as well bu y that as-seen-on-TV locomotive alarm clock at this point, because there’s no hope of graceful recovery from this metaphor. Relax with your hobo soup and read on… Rail gauge is like leading, especially for Museo with its transitive pipelike serifs. The ideal distance between two lines of Museo depends on factors like its typeset size and measure, of course, but you’ll find long lines of M useo set surprisingly well with tight line-height, probably because individual words and letters connect well horizontally and keep the reader’s eye on track.

WRITING WORK WORDS ABOUT CONTACT NOV 11, 2009 NOV 11, 2009 What You See Is What You Mean On Donald Knuth and when WYSIWYG transforms to
WYSIWYM : As opposed to industry -standard page layout programs that implement a “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) paradigm, TeX produces “What You See Is What You Mean” (WYSIWYM) by using plain text files and a semantic mark -up language compiled on-the -fly to produce final pages. Then: This is where the moral objection comes in. Once the typographic decisions have been passed over to software, then the information no longer is tied to any one specific form. The possibilities multiply. Also: Plato reminds us that the very tool used to create books — writing — may have placed us in this double bind for good, between remembering and forgetting, information on or off, from zero to one and back. (I still think he just needed a
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