- Screenfont
A screenfont or screen font is:
* a computer
typeface created specifically for reading from a screen; or [cite conference
last=Boyarski | first=Dan
coauthors=Neuwirth, Christine; Forlizzi, Jodi; Harkness Regli, Susan
title=A study of fonts designed for screen display
booktitle=Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems
pages=87–94 | year=1998
publisher=ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
location=Los Angeles, California, United States
url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976IAUS...73...75P
accessdate=2008-05-20 | isbn=0-201-30987-4 ]* another kind of typeface, like a print font, that is used for reading from a screen
Screenfonts are found on a range of screen-based media, including computer, video-game, cellphone, and movie screens; televisions;
automated teller machine s; interactive menus (as onset-top box es); portable video devices (e.g., videoiPods ); and alphanumeric displays likereaderboard s. Screenfonts, not print fonts, are almost always used to displayWeb pages ,text messages , and captions and subtitles.Screenfonts differ from print fonts not only in the medium of expression but in resolution (usually lower in screenfonts) and the level of complexity in presenting the typefaces (screenfonts can use
subpixel rendering to improve appearance, which print fonts cannot do).Well-known screenfonts include Georgia,
Verdana ,Trebuchet MS , Geneva, and Tiresias.References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
