The word Hamburgefonts (or Hamburgefonstiv or Hamburgefons or Hamburgevons) is a short piece of meaningless

filler text Filler text (also placeholder text or dummy text) is text that shares some characteristics of a real written text, but is random or otherwise generated. It may be used to display a sample of fonts, generate text for testing, or to spoof an e- ...

used for assessing the design and the appearance of a

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 ...

. It contains all essential forms in a Latin alphabet, so that the character of the respective font can be recognized quickly. It consists of the letters that are often first designed when designing a typeface. The word is useful for

typographers Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing (leading), and ...

and designers during the design of a font, as the form of its letters include all of the curves and abutments normally found in a font. As a test word, it is useful for determining the visual readability of a font chosen for a layout. A version of it is often used as a standard word in the visual layout of fonts submitted to competitions and exhibitions.

Bibliography

Jérôme Peignot, L’Alphabet des lettres, ou le petit hamburgefons, Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1995, 128 p. ().

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{{Standard test item Typography

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