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Futura Vs. Avant Garde

字體比較

FUTURA Avant Garde is a display font, Avant-Garde 是一種展示字形，主要用
meant to be used for headines and
於標題及分項。Futura 則同時用於展示
shorts. Futura designs intended for
和內文表述。因為 Futura 有較低的 x 字
both display text and body text
體高度所以比 Avant-Garde 更適合用於
purposes. Futura has quite a low
內文。
x-height, suitable for body text.
一個將futura 和 avant garde 區分開
An easy way to distinguish Futura
來的方法是看字母「s」和「r」的尾端
from avant garde is to look at the
收結。Futura的端位是斜向收結，至於
terminal (the end of a stroke) of the
Avant Grade則以水平或垂直收結。
characters “s”and “r”. futura tends
to have slanted terminals and avant
garde tends to have either vertical
or horizontal cut-offs.

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