Forte is a
script
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Writing systems
* Script, a distinctive writing system, based on a repertoire of specific elements or symbols, or that repertoire
* Script (styles of handwriting)
** Script typeface, a typeface with characteristics of handw ...
typeface
A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
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designed by
Austrian
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* Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent
** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law
* Austrian German dialect
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commercial artist
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Carl Reissberger on May 8, 1962, for the
Monotype Corporation
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. It started in Windows Vista and ended in 8.1.
Design
The idea for the script face came from the study of plants, individual letterforms being inspired by the long stems and furry heads of the reed.
[Microsoft Typography - Forte](_blank)
/ref> It is intended to give a contrast to 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 seri ...
and classical modern types. Adobe suggests the optimal viewing size to 18.0 points.
Unicode
Forte has characters in the following Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology Technical standard, standard for the consistent character encoding, encoding, representation, and handling of Character (computing), text expre ...
ranges:Microsoft Typography - Forte - Version 1.60
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References
External links
Identifont - Forte
Fonts In Use
See also
* Typeface
A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
There are list of type ...
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1962
Microsoft typefaces
Script typefaces
Display typefaces
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