10 Fun Facts about Fonts

Copied from Nat Brauns blog ; Googles miserable font sortiment forbid proper formatting…

Fonts are such a cool concept. You can change the way your writing looks to make your advertisement more interesting looking, serious, and many other things. Here are ten fun facts about fonts!

10. This font, Georgia, got its name from the tabloid headline "Alien heads found in Georgia"

9. At any less than 4 pixels high, fonts begin to become unreadable.

8. While writing is about 30,000 years old, the modern movable-type system is only about 500.

7. Frutiger, designed by Adrian Frutiger, took 7 years to develop and even after 40 years, continues to be one of linotype's best selling fonts.

6. Fonts that are heavy, bold, and jagged are considered to be masculine, whereas lighter and curly fonts are considered to be feminine.

5. Lower case letters are easier to read on street signs when going at a high speed.

4. Don't use Courier unless you want to look like a nerd because librarians and data entry companies use it a lot.

3. People who use the font Sans Serif value their safety and anonymity.

2. Comic Sans is the font for self-confessed attention seekers.

1. First font ever created by Microsoft was Times New Roman.

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