</icon>
<br>
<menu>
menu font
</menu>
</body>
</html>
If you’re planning to extensively mimic the OS look and feel in your Web
pages, however, you might want to consider using backgrounds created in
graphics applications and other special techniques described in Chapter 7.
All Roads Lead to Rome ...............................................................................
For most body text, especially for serious, formal Web pages (for example,
Web sites that are corporate or religious or wherever sobriety and dignity are
expected), a Roman font is ideal. All serif typefaces derive from a classic, ele-
gant alphabet designed by an unknown Roman calligraphic genius in the first
century AD.
His work quickly spread throughout the civilized world — appearing on
everything from public architecture to coins. This seminal typeface consisted
originally only of capital letters. It was so thoughtfully designed — close to
perfection really — that it continues to dominate Western text, and it proba-
bly always will.
Originally carved into marble on temples and statues, the typeface now
known as Romanproved equally suitable to ink on paper.
Simplicity above all .............................................................................
The other major event in typeface design took place in 1816, and this time we
know who to thank. William Caslon IV, scion of a family of famous typeface
designers, lopped off the serifs and enforced a single line width for his new
typefaces. This represented a return to the long-ignored Greek alphabet of
500 BC, and it anticipated the “Less is more” aesthetic. Now called sans serif
(sans is French for “without”), this typeface dominates headlines, captions,
pull-quotes, or any text located apart from, or larger than, body text. Take a
look at several popular sans faces in Figure 5-6:
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