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Page layout
Page layout: arrangement of text, images, and whitespace on a page or screen, built on grids and typographic hierarchy; produced with desktop publishing tools like InDesign and, on the web, CSS layout under WCAG reflow rules.
Roboto
Roboto is Google's neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface by Christian Robertson, released 2011 with Android 4.0, default system font of Android and Material Design, revised in 2014, with Slab, Mono, and Condensed variants.
Ruq'ah script
Ruq'ah script (خط الرقعة) is a style of Arabic script created in the Ottoman Empire and codified in 1863, now the everyday handwriting of the eastern Arab world.
Sans-serif
Sans-serif typefaces lack the small finishing strokes (serifs) of serif letterforms. First seen in Caslon IV's 1816 specimen, named in Figgins' 1832 book, classified as grotesque, neo-grotesque, geometric, and humanist; dominant on screens and in accessibility guidance.
Segoe
Segoe is Microsoft's humanist sans-serif typeface family designed by Steve Matteson for ClearType; Segoe UI is its screen variant and Windows default UI font since Vista 2007, with Segoe UI Variable as the Windows 11 system font.
Star (classification)
Star (classification): a grading system ranking hotels and other services into one-to-five star categories. Covers official schemes (India's Ministry of Tourism, Hotelstars Union, China's GB/T 14308), self-assigned US stars, MICHELIN Keys, and guest review scores.
Star (glyph)
Star (glyph): typographic star symbols, chiefly U+2605 BLACK STAR and asterisk forms; used for footnotes, ratings, the Moroccan flag, the ITU-T E.161 telephony star, and ancient Sumerian dingir.
T. J. Cobden-Sanderson
T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, full name Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, was an English bookbinder and printer who founded the Doves Bindery and the Doves Press in Hammersmith.
Times New Roman
Times New Roman, also sold by Linotype as Times Roman, is a 1932 transitional serif designed by Victor Lardent under Stanley Morison for The Times of London, later the Microsoft Word default serif.
Tobias Frere-Jones
Tobias Frere-Jones (born 1970) is an American typeface designer in New York, known for widely used typefaces including Interstate, Gotham, Whitney, and Retina, and founder of Frere-Jones Type.
Typeface
Typeface: the shared design of a set of letterforms, distinct from a font, the file or metal that renders it. Covers font-versus-typeface terminology, history from Gutenberg, serif legibility research, and OpenType variable fonts (2016).
Typography
Typography: design and arrangement of written text for reading, in print and on screens; also called type design. Spans Sumerian cuneiform, Gutenberg's movable type, and digital variable fonts, with legibility, readability, and WCAG accessibility criteria.
Typography of Apple Inc.
Typography of Apple Inc.: the company's typefaces, from Susan Kare's 1984 Macintosh city fonts (Chicago) through Apple Garamond and Myriad to the San Francisco system font family (SF Pro, SF Compact, SF Mono, New York, SF Arabic and other script extensions) introduced in 2015, with its restrictive developer licensing.
Widows and orphans
Widows and orphans are typographic faults: stranded single lines at the top or bottom of pages or columns. Covers definitions, terminology disputes, CSS widows/orphans properties, and fixes in InDesign, LaTeX, and web text-wrap.
Wim Crouwel
Wim Crouwel, born Willem Crouwel (1928–2019), was a Dutch graphic designer and typographer who created New Alphabet and Gridnik and co-founded the studio Total Design in 1963.
Wingdings
Wingdings is Microsoft's three-font symbol family (Wingdings 1, 2, 3) by Bigelow and Holmes, released 1992 with Windows 3.1, mapping keyboard characters to pictographs; distinct from Webdings (1997), later partly absorbed into Unicode 7.0.
Zuzana Licko
Zuzana Licko, born 1961 in Bratislava, is a Slovak-born American type designer who pioneered digital typeface design on the first Apple Macintosh and co-founded Emigre, whose typefaces include Mrs Eaves.