Charcoal Cy Font

Charcoal David Berlow Charcoal is a sans-serif designed by David Berlow of during the period 1994–1997. Charcoal was the default menu in Apple Computer's and 9, replacing the relatively harder-to-read as part of the new. In developer preview 3, it was replaced with as the system typeface. Charcoal is designed for high legibility, even at smaller point sizes, displayed on computer monitors. While similar in design to realist sans-serifs, Charcoal has a distinctive organic quality.

Where Do Microsoft Word CE and CY Fonts Come From? If you've installed the Tiger supplied additional foreign language fonts, you have Charcoal CY, Geneva.

The letterforms have a high, a vertical axis, and maintain generous counter-form in and around the letterforms. Descending characters, g, j, p, q, and y are shallow, compensating for the high x-height, and allowing for reduced leading in text. While designed primarily for monitor display, Charcoal has had considerable popularity in print, including in letterpress printing.

Is a free font of similar design sometimes used as a surrogate on non-Apple systems. Truth [ ] Truth, an expanded Charcoal family, is sold by Font Bureau, designed by David Berlow, and was released in 2005.

It contains small differences from Charcoal, and is available in seven weights. The weights are Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black, and Ultra. References [ ] • Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein.

Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. External links [ ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to.

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