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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Categorisation of fonts Post 302463411 by fpmurphy on Sunday 17th of October 2010 10:16:31 AM
Old 10-17-2010
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So one could have categorisation by periods, such as Modern > Urban > Tattoo to give all styles of fonts commonly associated with tattoos.
I don't think this is how font designers or the majority of font users think of fonts. They classify fonts in terms of font attributes. For example, look at the Font Factory catagories.
 

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gnome-font-properties(1)					   User Commands					  gnome-font-properties(1)

NAME
gnome-font-properties - select fonts for the desktop SYNOPSIS
gnome-font-properties [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
The Font preferences tool allows you to select the fonts to use in your applications and desktop background. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5). EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching the Font preferences tool example% gnome-font-properties EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnome-font-propExecutable for Font preferences tool ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-desktop-preferences | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Preference Tools Manual Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. gnome-control-center(1), gnome-std-options(5) NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003. SunOS 5.10 2 Oct 2003 gnome-font-properties(1)
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