type-face

plural type-faces

1. alternativeAlternative form of typeface.

   But the heave sideways, into a kindlier market niche, will need a constant programme of rolling change - in pagination and type-faces, amongst other things.

   2002 April 16, Peter Preston, “The Mirror's image”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2014

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   In a very short time, science-fiction films have developed their own jargon that’s now become a part of the grammar of film. You know the sort of stuff I mean — the shots of blinking instrument panels, of wildly bleeping computers, of cryptic messages clattering in square type-faces across television screens.

   1979 May 25, Vincent Canby, “Screen: ‘Alien’ Brings Chills From the Far Galaxy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2019

   At very least, it was Soviet policy to direct its overseas propaganda and disinformation effort, and the funds, in the ways indicated above (I collected piles of this literature finding that much of it, to judge by type-faces and recurring, tell-tale misspellings, had been run off on the same presses, whether in New York or London).

   1981, Herbert I[ra] London, Albert L. Weeks, “Myth of Isolationism”, in Myths That Rule America, Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 117

   The new paper, with subdued type-faces and a rather low-pressure approach, is in contrast to the very aggressive afternoon tabloids, Expressen, which has Scandinavia’s biggest circulation, and Aftonbladet, a left-wing newspaper that has lost considerably in terms of market position over the years.

   1981 October 18, John Vinocur, “New Paper Starts in Swedish Capital”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2014