Questions tagged [font]
often used as a synonym for typeface which is a set of one or more fonts, in one or more sizes, designed with stylistic unity, each comprising a coordinated set of glyphs
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Is RethinkSans a good font for digital/ web app? [closed]
RethinkSans is this font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Rethink+Sans
Is this web / app friendly font? I am wondering. Thank you
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Why is monospaced text often smaller than regular text?
I often see that monospaced text is smaller than regular text in the same context. Here are some examples:
Crafting Interpreters has the main font 16px large and the monospaced font 13px large.
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Grey font on websites - some so pale they are difficult to read. What is today's design brief on font colour?
What is the design standard for font colour on websites?
I am finding the use of pale grey makes some of the text extremely difficult to read.
Surely readability should also extend to being able to ...
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What are various factors to be considered for Font Selection Parameters for any applications?
I am sure there are multiple parameters and factors to be considered while selecting a font, for the application to be designed and developed. Few of the points that are straight away taken into ...
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IOS font - Can I use brand typography for app that will work on IOS?
I'm designing an app, that will be supported for Android and Ios. The brand font is Lato. I'm wondering if I should use SF Pro while designing this app or can I use a brand font?
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Should I use the same font size between phone, tablet and desktop?
When making a responsive stylesheet. Is it better to keep the text sizes the same pixel size. Note I am using the following to normalize the sizes across. Also for the purpose of this question I'm ...
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What is a sans-serif font that still clearly differentiates similar characters like: l 1, i etc
I am looking for an easy-to-read San Serif font that manages to make the normally similar looking characters (o, 0; 1,l,i) still clearly differniated to the eye.
This sill be used for very short ...
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Does the ® Symbol need to be in a smaller font size than the actual text, similar to Name™?
I see the TM tag with smaller text than it's associated name, does the same apply for the ® symbol.
Should it be the same font size as the name or smaller like exponents are displayed in math?
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Do people uninstall standard fonts?
I was just on cssfontstack.
It says 98.74% of Macs have the font arial.
Does that mean that over 1 in 100 Mac users are intentionally uninstalling arial and if so why?
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Easiest to read fonts
Has there been studies to determine what fonts make it easiest to read? I'm interested in the font type, but also size and color. For example, is dark gray better than pitch black?
Also of interest ...
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How to present code in my text document?
I'm writing some articles, mainly in blogs or small, approximately 1 paper long, printed articles.
Now this text contains some code. Most often it is not a code block but just a method name, a ...
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What are the most authoritative fonts
I heard various rumors years back that Georgia was the most authoritative font. The research was fairly underwhelming: a student had done less than a dozen papers in various Microsoft TrueType core ...
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How to choose typeface (fonts) for a website in different locales?
Part of a good UX for websites and web applications that support multiple languages is their fonts.
Let's imagine that English is not the default font on the web and another nation has created the web ...
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What is the appeal of old style numbers and why do modern fonts still include them? [closed]
Here's text rendered with Raleway, a font designed around 2012, according to Google Fonts:
I'm far from a font expert, but the ...
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Best Practice For Font Use in Mobile App Design
I'm currently designing an app using Figma and having had no prior experience am learning as I go.
I appreciate both Android and iOS have their own design guidelines which I'll be looking at, but I ...
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Lowercase 'a' hooked vs non-hooked (rounded)
Does anyone have any information regarding whats better for usability and legibility: a lowercase 'a' with the bell hook, or a rounded (α) one.
This is particularly for mobile devices in body text. I'...
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Potential legibility issues with using a unique font for each character in a game
I have a game where players talk with characters with dialogue boxes. I would like each character to have their own font to add personality to the characters and dialogue. Will this create a ...
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Readability between sans serif and serif for "foreign language users"?
I am curious about whether "foreign language users" find a difference in readability of text between sans serif and serif.
Here, I am defining "foreign language users" as people whose primary/first ...
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What is the name of the user interface and font in this picture?
This simple, terminal-like user interface was once popular in operating system installers. I recall it being used in the Windows 9X and Windows XP installers, but I recently noticed that the Debian ...
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Font scaling from desktop to mobile
I am a designer and an issue I run in to all the time is how to scale font sizes down for mobile, and how to communicate that to a developer without 'just eyeballing it'. For instance, in my style ...
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What font is best for full screen closed captions?
I'd like to upload some closed caption audiobooks to YouTube where the video is simply the subtitles for the text being read. [Here's an example].
What design would best suit this purpose?
I'm ...
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How many types of typeface should I use to make the better user experience?
I am designing a style guide for my project and read few articles that suggest it's a good practice to combine more than one style of typefaces to enhance user experience. May I ask how to decide the ...
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How to decide a text box length based on the text size? [closed]
If I have a fixed text width, let's say 35 characters, I know the font and font size, Arial Regular 13, how can I calculate the size of the text box required to fit in the text? Is there a formula or ...
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Is there any research about the information icon font?
There is a small debate in my project weather we should use the serif or the sans serif version of the font for the "i" on the icon and it is something we clearly can't test.
I personally prefer the ...
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Smaller font sizes on smaller screen devices
I'm an iOS developer and I recently had a discussion with a designer in my team about the font size of a label in an iOS app that we are producing. It is a small label that is used to present the user ...
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How do you choose a font for extremely limited space, i.e. will fit the most READABLE text in the smallest space?
I often have very limited space when creating reports and dashboards for users. I usually use Arial, or Arial Narrow, but UI isn't my area of expertise, so I want to know, how do you determine an ...
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What is the recommended Type Scale for E-commerce sites?
I'm a designer, working on a project to redesign an E-commerce site.
To improve readability, I would like to increase the font size as well as white space etc.
I would like to use a Type scale to ...
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When to use Apples 'SF Rounded' font?
Apple uses in certain cases 'SF Rounded' for big titles and number values (e.g. Apple Pay Transaction Detail), in many other cases they still use the regular SF font (e.g. calculator, timer app).
Is ...
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What font is this? [closed]
Please help me to find what font is this also suggest me the website where I can upload image and get the font type.
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Should your font size change based on size and orientation of the device?
I am created a cross platform app and I was wondering if and when fonts should scale based on the size of the screen. Also, I was wondering if the scales of fonts should change based on the ...
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Should colons be styled in the same way as the preceding label is?
Is it common for designers to style a colon in the same way as the preceding label, even though the following text does not follow this style?
For instance, I have the habit of making the colon bold ...
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Reasonable (big) default font sizes
In our app (a CAD type app for the casual computer user) we allow users to choose from a number of preset font sizes. These defaults are picked pretty arbitrarily from what OS X offers in their ...
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Why rounding odd font sizes to even?
Today I started implementing a design that had some copy text with font size 17px. My fellow web developer told me that we should round that to 18px and more in general that we should not use odd font ...
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Why not use sans-serif fonts on print design?
It's better to use sans-serif than serif fonts on the web, as their simpler letter form remain readable at low resolution. Serif fonts need more pixels to display their extra details.
I was wondering ...
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Should headings always use the same font as the body?
I'm working on some of the layouts for a User Handbook and right now my main concern is fonts. I'm trying to decide whether to use the same font for the body text and the headings.
If I use different ...
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(How) does capitalization affect readability
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In short, given the following two options:
This is sentence case
This is Title Case
Has any research been done into which one is more user-friendly, especially considering dyslexia and other ...
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Why commonly or frequently used fonts sizes are even numbers like 10px, 12px, 16px, 24px, or 32px?
There are some sites still use odd numbers for font sizes, but why
we used "commonly" even numbers?
OR appears on default in selecting font sizes usually at 12px.
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What are the pros and cons of using 2 fonts on a single page/throughout an application?
As a very relatable example, we have Android OS (since which version I do not remember) using 2 fonts, one for headlines and one for the rest of the text.
As in the image, we can see that it uses 2 ...
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What kind of font(s) offer maximum on-screen readability for consumption on smartphones in Africa? [closed]
I know that Africa is very large and very diverse, a continent and not anything like a single country, and cell phone hardware is presumably not uniform.
However, if it is known, what kind of font(s) ...
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Should non-system fonts be avoided for website/general copy?
I just came across a UX principle that raises very fair objections but I'm not sure on balance I agree with, but I'm here to be proven wrong, not have my opinion confirmed.
For the sake of brevity I'...
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When should bold, italics, and colour be used to draw attention in a sentence?
Following is my signature on some other fora:
Interested in Drawing, Painting, and Crafts?
Please Commit to the Arts and Crafts Stackoverflow proposal!
I cannot show it here but the words "...
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Why monospaced fonts are not used as frequently as serif and sans-serif fonts, outside coding?
We see sans-serif and serif fonts everywhere, from the web to printed books and newspapers. I'm wondering why monospaced fonts are not popular outside coding context?
Here is a simple comparison I ...
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What's the widest character ever? [closed]
This doesn't have to be English, it could also be a symbol or some other language. I have not tried anything.
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Are italics on the web bad for accessibility?
On a current web project, we've received word from the client that we can no longer have any italicized text on the website we are building.
When I asked for some reasoning, I was told that "our ...
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Why so many symbols are included in the Unicode standard
There aren't that many "characters" you use on a regular basis, not much more than what's on a laptop keyboard, but even then there's probably a few extra. But there's over 100,000 characters in the ...
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Capitalized words in navigation for phone app
I read that capitalized text reduces reading speed, but does it apply to navigation text?
For example, at the top of the app I would have 3 navigation elements:
HOME BOOKMARK SETTINGS
Will it ...
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Standard font size for non-Latin scripts
For Latin fonts you typically see anywhere from 12-16px for the main body of text. Medium.com has 21px for article body text which is larger than most. GitHub has 12px for code. Twitter has 14px for ...
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Why is 13px Arial font the web standard?
If you use any of Google's applications, from search to Gmail you will find the base font used for most things is 13px Arial.
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
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Which would be recommended font to use from the following two designs and why [closed]
I have a question, our client and us are conflicted between selection of a font, we are using standard OpenSans Font for mobile app and the client is insisting on using font named David, for us the ...
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Can we use Airbnb Cereal font within android app for free? [closed]
I'm newbie on ux stackexchange community so , pardon me if it's wrong place to ask my question .
Currently I'm developing an Android application & I really like UI/UX of Airbnb so , I'm trying to ...