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Web Cartography
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Web Cartography

by Ian Muehlenhaus
December 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
262 pages
8h 5m
English
CRC Press
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121Typography
Myriad Pro and Myriad Web
Adobe’s Myriad Pro has become ubiquitous and is probably a bit overused
as a default font by designers (see Figure6.8). Myriad is really versatile, dis-
tinguished, and easy to read on screen and paper. Myriad Web is a version of
this font that was redesigned for the Web. The letters are slightly wider than
Myriad Pro’s, making it easier to read on screens.
If this is such a fashionable font, why is it not used everywhere on the Web?
One reason is that many people may not have it installed on their comput-
ers. Myriad Web needs to be purchased from Adobe. (The Web version of
the font tends to be installed whenever someone installs part of the Adobe
Creative Suite package, but many people do not have that ...
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