![]() ![]() As a result, Google now offers Alegreya users a choice of 400 to 800 black strong designs in numerous faces. Long texts, whether in large or tiny font sizes, will benefit most from this typeface’s readability. In terms of forms, it harkens back to the days of the printing press. For print, online, and mobile interfaces, it was designed with good readability in mind. It was created with an upright tension, open shapes, and a neutral, yet inviting look. ![]() The usual ISO Latin 1, Latin CE, Greek, and Cyrillic letter sets are all included in this version’s 897 character set. Now the next type on our list is geometric, so let's go ahead and cover that in the next lesson.Steve Matteson, the company’s Type Director, created the humanist sans serif typeface known as Open Sans. Okay, and those are just a few examples of grotesque and neo-grotesque typefaces. Again, these are three that I found by quickly searching on Elements, but I'm sure there are a couple more. Then we have Glenn Sans, and then we have Quadran. And then moving to envato elements, we have a couple grotesques here, this one's called Gorga. And you can download it for free from the Apple website. Then we'll have one created by Apple, it's called San Francisco. This is made by Google, and Roboto as far as I know, is the default typeface in the Google material design. But this is actually Neo-Grotesque, and so is Univers, a typeface that was used a lot in the past. Another very popular grotesque typeface is Arial. And as I was saying, it's definitely the most popular grotesque typeface. So, I think everyone knows Helvetica, it's being used and it's still being used so much because of how simple it looks. And this is actually neo-grotesque, it was made in a period following the initial conception of these grotesque types. Then, probably the most popular grotesque typeface is Helvetica. This one is definitely grotesque based on the style but it has that more refined feel to it. This is actually one of my favorite typefaces and you've already seen it being used in all of these slides that I showed you. Another very popular typeface as well from this category. Very similar, this one has a couple of defining characteristics like we see on the q here and on the lowercase b. Another grotesque typeface is Franklin Gothic. ![]() We have that vertical stress, we have no serifs, and the contrast between strokes is pretty much non-existent. The first typeface we'll look at, is monotype's grotesque, very simple compared to what we've seen before. ![]() They have vertical stress and overall a slightly unrefined or a crude appearance. We can clearly see the departure from handwritten and calligraphy styles on these typefaces. And a key characteristics of grotesque typefaces is the low contrast between strokes. Because we're now in the realm of sans-serif typefaces, we don't have serifs anymore. Now, let's have a look at some characteristics. They were created in the early 19th century and they were called grotesque because people consider them ugly or uglier compared to their more traditional and ordinate serif types. Now, these are not the first sans-serif typefaces that came out, but instead are the first ones that became commercially popular. In this lesson, we're discussing the grotesque typefaces. Sans basically means without, so the typefaces we'll be showing in this chapter are without serifs, without those ornaments on the top or bottom of the letters. We have Serif typefaces and we have Sans-serif typefaces. Now before we begin, here's a quick note. Welcome to lesson number six where we'll discuss the first sensor of style called grotesque. ![]()
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