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Pangram

Texts used to demonstrate typefaces in a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet (a pangram), such as "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
Often used as a design aesthetic tool to demonstrate the personality of a typeface's characters in a setting (because it displays all the letters of the alphabet).

Lao-Tse

Thirty spokes unite at the single hub;
It is the empty space which makes the wheel useful.
Mold clay to form a bowl;
It is the empty space which makes the bowl useful.
Cut out windows and doors;
It is the empty space which makes the room useful.

Bell Centennial^[1]
Big Caslon^[4]
Bitstream Charter
Big Figgins
Carter Sans
Cascade Script
Elephant
Fenway

ITC Galliard
Gando
Georgia^[5]
Mantinia^[6]
Meiryo (Latin range)
Miller^[7]
Monticello
Nina

Olympian
Rocky
Shelley Script
Snell Roundhand^[1]
Skia
Sophia
Tahoma
Verdana^[5]^[8]

Vincent
Walker^[9]
Wilson Greek
Wrigley
Yale

Typefaces include:

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Font characteristics:

Serifs
Character height
Weight regular and plain)
Slope - Style, Angle - normal, roman or upright
Width - Charactr Width - compressed, condensed or narrow. proportional or monospaced(fixed-width), (tabular) digits,
Optimal size
Poster - larger than 72 point
Display - 19–72 point
Subhead - 14–18 point
(Regular) - 10–13 point
Small Text (SmText) - 8–10 point
Caption - 6–8 point
Metrics
Font metrics refers to metadata consisting of numeric values relating to size and space in the font overall, or in its individual glyphs. Font-wide metrics include cap height, x-height, ascender height, descender depth, and the font bounding box.

Weight
Stroke width, called weight - roman, regular, bold, thin, italic/oblique thickness of the character outlines relative to height

- Hairline
- Thin
- Ultra-light
- Extra-light
- Light
- Book
- Normal / regular / roman / plain
- Medium
- Demi-bold / semi-bold
- Bold
- Extra-bold / extra
- Heavy
- Black
- Extra-black
- Ultra-black / ultra
(normal, regular and plain)

Width - Character Width - compressed, condensed or narrow. proportional or monospaced(fixed-width), (tabular) digits,

Optimal size
Poster - larger than 72 point
Display - 19–72 point
Subhead - 14–18 point
(Regular) - 10–13 point
Small Text (SmText) - 8–10 point
Caption - 6–8 point

Metrics
Font metrics refers to metadata consisting of numeric values relating to size and space in the font overall, or in its individual glyphs. Font-wide metrics include cap height, x-height, ascender height, descender depth, and the font bounding box.