Helvetica typeface

The font (or typeface) is the style or design of the letters. There are literally hundreds of fonts, but plain, simple fonts such as Helvetica or Times Roman are best for scientific art. 

Typeface the term for a family of characters of a particular design, each of which is given a particular name. The most commonly used for normal text is Times Roman, as used here for the main text, but many others are widely available, particularly for the better quality printers. They fall into three broad groups serif fonts with curves and flourishes at the ends of the characters (e.g. Times Roman) sans serif fonts without such flourishes, providing a clean, modern appearance (e.g. Helvetica, also known as Swiss) and decorative fonts used for special purposes only, such as the production of newsletters and notices (e.g. 

This book is composed in Melior, Columbia, Helvetica, and Courier typefaces using QuarkXPress 4.1, Adobe Photoshop 5.0.2, and Adobe Illustrator 8.0. Created in... 

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