how boring would it be if all the text on your computer or tablet screen always
looked the same I mean there's something cool and cyberpunkish about doing
everything in a console type face but having a wide variety of type faces is
important to people like designers and developers and anyone who wants to add a
little Pizzazz to their documents or web pages but hold up for a second why do
you keep on saying type face aren't those things called fonts although these
terms have become virtual interchangeable if you want to be super
super proper a type face is an actual style of a letter such as cabrie aerial
impact Etc and a font is a specific size
and variation such as bold or italic but since most people in the modern era are
just fine calling type faces fonts
that's what we'll be doing for the rest of this video now the idea of using
different fonts for different applications has been around for
centuries long before the ad of digital word processing although back in the day
changing fonts meant changing metallic movable type in a typewriter or printing
press often a much more tedious process
than just pointing and clicking it's a good thing too that switching fonts has
become so easy since they've obviously had a ton of variation in fonts just
think about how different Times New Roman and wingdings are or how whether
to use serif or Sans serif fonts has become an important design Choice by the
way serfs are those little lines at the edges of letters that some people
believe makes printed text easier to read different fonts has also been
proven to have certain psychological effects on the people that see them so
let us know in the comments down below if you'd like to see a future video on
things like why comic sanss is so hated and produces anger in people that read
it and why hipsters have such an affinity for helvetica but trying to
work with so many different fonts wasn't always easy like on earlier PCS unlike
old-fashioned typewriters where you knew exactly what you were getting as soon as
the letter was printed on the paper older computers used bitmap fonts that
essentially stored letters as small bitmapped images although this strategy
did save on processing power this also made fonts suffer from aliasing or
jaggies when you increased their size if you used an older Macintosh you might
remember how this was particularly prevalent in the Old Chicago font that
Apple used heavily but as processing power grew the industry started shifting
towards Vector fonts in formats such as true type and open type which allowed
accurate scaling not just on monitors
but on printers as well as users started to shift away from Old School Matrix
printers towards Laser Printers demand grew for being able to see exactly what
you would get both on screen and on paper which makes sense you see Vector
fonts are defined not as an arrangement of pixels but as how the lines and
Curves in each letter relate to one another this means that they can be
scaled to any size without losing quality most modern fonts are vector
fonts which you can see yourself by opening a modern web page on a modern
browser and zooming way in you should
see smooth lines and curves instead of jaggies pretty cool try to for yourself
later as LCD monitors became more popular we also saw the rise of
Technologies like micros soft's clear type which is essentially anti-aliasing
for fonts even though Vector fonts can be scaled nicely as I just said they can
look a bit rough on normal size LCDs because modern flat panels have pixels
fixed at very specific locations on the screen meaning that jaggies can appear
when characters have to try to fit themselves into these pixels on a grid
especially on Lower resolution displays this can be a problem clear type and
other anti-aliasing Tech alleviates the problem by placing lighter colored
pixels around your letters and you don't even need a Titan X or R9 Fury to run it
pretty cool of course font technology hasn't been the only thing changing over
the years since our tastes have evolved as well but no matter what your style is
you're likely to find something to suit your preferences as there are now
thousands of freely available to download fonts I just recommend steering
clear of the aformentioned comic Sands
unless you haven't gotten tired of Doge jokes yet I haven't so I mean I'm down
send them to me at Twitter Luke LFR Doge jokes everywhere do it with the
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that video I know it was on like fonts and type faces so if you disliked it let
me know if you want to see us cover other stuff in the comments down below
and the psychology of type faces which is something I love because I took a few
years of human computer interaction courses I would love to make that video
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