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Inter (typeface)
Inter is a free open-source neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface designed by Rasmus Andersson. Released in 2017, Inter was created to improve on-screen readability for user interface text, especially at small sizes. The typeface has since become widely used in applications and websites. Inter includes a wide range of OpenType features, support for over 140 languages, and is available as a variable font. Design characteristics Inter was created during Andersson's tenure at Figma to address perceived limitations in existing typefaces like Roboto. The typeface is characterized by a tall x-height, open apertures, which make it optimized for readability on screens and at small text sizes. The variable font includes an optical size axis allowing it to adapt for readability at all font sizes, and a weight axis allowing the weight to be adjusted smoothly from Thin (100) to Black (900) without the need for additional font files. Inter was initially metrically compatible with Roboto, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sans-serif
In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif (), gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. Sans-serif typefaces tend to have less stroke width variation than serif typefaces. They are often used to convey simplicity and Modern typography, modernity or minimalism. For the purposes of type classification, sans-serif designs are usually divided into these major groups: , , , , and . Sans-serif typefaces have become the most prevalent for display of text on computer screens. On lower-resolution digital displays, fine details like serifs may disappear or appear too large. The term comes from the French word , meaning "without" and "serif" of uncertain origin, possibly from the Dutch word meaning "line" or pen-stroke. In printed media, they are more commonly used for Display typeface, display use and less for body text. Before the term "sans-serif" became standard in English typography, a number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GNOME
A gnome () is a mythological creature and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and widely adopted by authors, including those of modern fantasy literature. They are typically depicted as small humanoids who live underground. Gnome characteristics are reinterpreted to suit various storytellers and artists. Paracelsus's gnome is recognized to have derived from the German miners' legend about or , the "metallurgical or mineralogical demon", according to Georg Agricola (1530), also called (literal Latinization of ''Bergmännlein'', "mountain manikin") by Agriocola in a later work (1549), and described by other names such as (sing. ; Latinization of German ). Agricola recorded that, according to the legends of that profession, these mining spirits acted as miming and laughing pranksters who sometimes threw pebbles at miners, but could also reward them by depositing a rich vein of silver ore. Paracelsus also called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open-source Unicode Typefaces
There are Unicode typefaces which are open-source and designed to contain glyphs of all Unicode characters, or at least a broad selection of Script (Unicode), Unicode scripts. There are also numerous projects aimed at providing only a certain script, such as the Arabeyes Arabic font. The advantage of targeting only some scripts with a font was that certain Unicode characters should be rendered differently depending on which language they are used in, and that a font that only includes the characters a certain user needs will be much smaller in file size compared to one with many glyphs. Unicode fonts in modern formats such as OpenType can in theory cover multiple languages by including multiple glyphs per character, though very few actually cover more than one language's forms of the Han unification, unified Han characters. History 20th century Fixed The Fixed (typeface), Fixed X11 public-domain core bitmap fonts have provided substantial Unicode coverage since 1997. GNU Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variable Font
A variable font (VF) is a font file that is able to store a continuous range of design variants. An entire typeface (font family) can be stored in such a file, with an infinite number of fonts available to be sampled. The variable font technology originated in Apple's TrueType GX font variations. The technology was adapted to OpenType as OpenType variable fonts (OTVF) in version 1.8 of the OpenType specification. The technology was announced by Adobe, Apple, Google, and Microsoft in September 2016. Making such a feature standardized in OpenType paved the way for support in many software platforms. Variable fonts should not be confused with variable-width fonts. A variable font may be either variable-width or fixed-width. Technology OpenType variable fonts are an adaptation of Apple's TrueType GX font variations to OpenType, with integration into key aspects of the OpenType format including OpenType Layout tables and both TrueType and CFF glyph outline formats. It also su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Computer Font
A computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs. A computer font is designed and created using a font editor. A computer font specifically designed for the computer screen, and not for printing, is a screen font. In the terminology of movable type, movable metal type, a ''typeface'' is a set of characters that share common design features across styles and sizes (for example, all the varieties of Gill Sans), while a ''font'' is a set of pieces of movable type in a specific typeface, size, width, weight, slope, etc. (for example, Gill Sans bold 12 point). In HTML, CSS, and related technologies, the Font family (HTML), font family attribute refers to the digital equivalent of a typeface. Since the 1990s, many people outside the printing industry have used the word ''font'' as a synonym for ''typeface''. There are three basic kinds of computer font file data formats: * Bitmap fonts consist of a matrix of dots or pixels represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CTAN
C mathematical operations are a group of functions in the C standard library, standard library of the C programming language implementing basic mathematical functions. Different C standards provide different, albeit backwards-compatible, sets of functions. Most of these functions are also available in the C++ standard library, though in different headers (the C headers are included as well, but only as a deprecated compatibility feature). Overview of functions Most of the mathematical functions, which use Floating-point arithmetic, floating-point numbers, are defined in ( header in C++). The functions that operate on Integer (computer science), integers, such as abs, labs, div, and ldiv, are instead defined in the header ( header in C++). Any functions that operate on angles use radians as the unit of angle. Not all of these functions are available in the C89 (C version), C89 version of the standard. For those that are, the functions accept only type double for the floating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Fonts
Google Fonts (formerly known as Google Web Fonts) is a computer font and web font service owned by Google. This includes Free-software license, free and open source font families, an interactive web directory for browsing the library, and Application Programming Interface, APIs for using the fonts via Cascading Style Sheets, CSS and Android (operating system), Android. Google Fonts is also used with Google Workspace software such as Google Docs, Docs, Google Sheets, Sheets, Google Drawings, Drawings and Google Slides, Slides. Popular fonts in the Google Fonts library include Roboto, Open Sans, Lato (typeface), Lato, Franklin Gothic#Oswald, Oswald, Montserrat (typeface), Montserrat, and Source Sans Pro. National Fonts and PT Fonts are also available in the Google Fonts library. History Google Fonts was launched in 2010 and revamped in 2011, 2016, 2020 and 2023 On March 3, 2020, Google updated the catalog website with support for variable fonts. On March 2, 2021, the Google Fonts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zurich Airport
Zurich Airport is the largest international airport of Switzerland and the airline hub, principal hub of Swiss International Air Lines. It serves Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland, and, with its surface transport links, much of the rest of the country. The airport is located north of central Zurich, in the municipalities of Kloten, Rümlang, Oberglatt, Winkel, Switzerland, Winkel, and Opfikon, all of which are within the canton of Zurich. History Early years In the Zurich area, mixed civil and military air traffic developed from 1909 onwards at Dübendorf Air Base, Dübendorf airfield, northeast of the city. From 1919, the airport was home to Swissair's predecessor , and from 1932 also to Swissair. The first regular international flight service began on 1 June 1922 with an Ad Astra route to Fürth, Germany. In the early years of aviation, the Dübendorf Air Base, located around southeast of Zurich Airport, also served as the city's commercial airfield. The need for a ded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States's civil list of government space agencies, space program, aeronautics research and outer space, space research. National Aeronautics and Space Act, Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the American space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the 1968–1972 Apollo program missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program and oversees the development of the Orion (spacecraft), Orion spacecraft and the Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mozilla
Mozilla is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, publishes and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting free software and open standards. The community is supported institutionally by the Nonprofit organization, non-profit Mozilla Foundation and its tax-paying subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. List of Mozilla products, Mozilla's current products include the Firefox web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird e-mail client (now through a subsidiary), the Bugzilla bug tracking system, the Gecko (software), Gecko layout engine, and the Pocket (service), Pocket "read-it-later-online" service. History On January 23, 1998, Netscape announced that its Netscape Communicator browser software would be free, and that its source code would also be free. One day later, Jamie Zawinski of Netscape registered . The project took its name, "Mozilla", from the original code name of the Netscape Navigator browser—a por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GitLab
GitLab is a software forge primarily developed by GitLab Inc. It is available as a community edition and a commercial edition. History GitLab was created in 2011 by Ukrainian programmer Dmitriy Zaporozhets as a side project written in Ruby on Rails. Sytse Sijbrandij wanted to sell it as a service, which Zaporozhets agreed to. So the GitLab B.V. was founded in Utrecht in the Netherlands. Later Zaporozhets quit his job and started as CTO at GitLab. In 2015 GitLab became Member in the Y Combinator Y Combinator, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 which has been used to launch more than 5,000 companies. The accelerator program started in Boston and Mountain View, Californi ... and collected US$1.5 million of seed funding. In September, Khosla Ventures invested an additional $4 million into the company. In September 2016 August Capital, Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures collected $20 million. GNOME has als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
