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how boring would it be if all the text on your computer or tablet screen always

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looked the same I mean there's something cool and cyberpunkish about doing

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everything in a console type face but having a wide variety of type faces is

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important to people like designers and developers and anyone who wants to add a

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little Pizzazz to their documents or web pages but hold up for a second why do

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you keep on saying type face aren't those things called fonts although these

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terms have become virtual interchangeable if you want to be super

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super proper a type face is an actual style of a letter such as cabrie aerial

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impact Etc and a font is a specific size

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and variation such as bold or italic but since most people in the modern era are

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just fine calling type faces fonts

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that's what we'll be doing for the rest of this video now the idea of using

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different fonts for different applications has been around for

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centuries long before the ad of digital word processing although back in the day

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changing fonts meant changing metallic movable type in a typewriter or printing

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press often a much more tedious process

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than just pointing and clicking it's a good thing too that switching fonts has

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become so easy since they've obviously had a ton of variation in fonts just

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think about how different Times New Roman and wingdings are or how whether

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to use serif or Sans serif fonts has become an important design Choice by the

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way serfs are those little lines at the edges of letters that some people

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believe makes printed text easier to read different fonts has also been

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proven to have certain psychological effects on the people that see them so

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let us know in the comments down below if you'd like to see a future video on

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things like why comic sanss is so hated and produces anger in people that read

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it and why hipsters have such an affinity for helvetica but trying to

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work with so many different fonts wasn't always easy like on earlier PCS unlike

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old-fashioned typewriters where you knew exactly what you were getting as soon as

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the letter was printed on the paper older computers used bitmap fonts that

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essentially stored letters as small bitmapped images although this strategy

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did save on processing power this also made fonts suffer from aliasing or

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jaggies when you increased their size if you used an older Macintosh you might

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remember how this was particularly prevalent in the Old Chicago font that

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Apple used heavily but as processing power grew the industry started shifting

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towards Vector fonts in formats such as true type and open type which allowed

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accurate scaling not just on monitors

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but on printers as well as users started to shift away from Old School Matrix

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printers towards Laser Printers demand grew for being able to see exactly what

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you would get both on screen and on paper which makes sense you see Vector

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fonts are defined not as an arrangement of pixels but as how the lines and

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Curves in each letter relate to one another this means that they can be

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scaled to any size without losing quality most modern fonts are vector

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fonts which you can see yourself by opening a modern web page on a modern

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browser and zooming way in you should

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see smooth lines and curves instead of jaggies pretty cool try to for yourself

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later as LCD monitors became more popular we also saw the rise of

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Technologies like micros soft's clear type which is essentially anti-aliasing

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for fonts even though Vector fonts can be scaled nicely as I just said they can

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look a bit rough on normal size LCDs because modern flat panels have pixels

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fixed at very specific locations on the screen meaning that jaggies can appear

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when characters have to try to fit themselves into these pixels on a grid

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especially on Lower resolution displays this can be a problem clear type and

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other anti-aliasing Tech alleviates the problem by placing lighter colored

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pixels around your letters and you don't even need a Titan X or R9 Fury to run it

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pretty cool of course font technology hasn't been the only thing changing over

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the years since our tastes have evolved as well but no matter what your style is

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you're likely to find something to suit your preferences as there are now

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thousands of freely available to download fonts I just recommend steering

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clear of the aformentioned comic Sands

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that video I know it was on like fonts and type faces so if you disliked it let

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me know if you want to see us cover other stuff in the comments down below

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and the psychology of type faces which is something I love because I took a few

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years of human computer interaction courses I would love to make that video

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let me know if you care at all in the comments down below if you guys are like

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over to channel Superfund and we will do just that no problem