Monday, September 28, 2015

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Verdana

Verdana was created to address legibility of fonts on the screen. It was created by Matthew Carter. It's generous width and spacing make it extremely legible on screen. It comes with bold, regular, italics, and bold italics in it's font family. Tom Rickner also helped with font design. It was designed in 1996 and is owned by Microsoft. The type face can be classified as a humanistic sans serif. A case study done at Wichita State proved that people preferred Verdana as a the font used in web design. 


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