Once the desktop publishing revolution took over with the introduction of the first Macs and Pagemaker software, proportional fonts became the rule. The one I’m writing about today though, is very personal. Rather than being left behind by the mathematical power of the computer, which makes spacing proportional fonts quite easy, monospaced fonts have continued to be popular for lots of reasons. They were the mainstays not only of typewriters, which could only move one space at a time, but also early CRT screens, where characters were made from pixels in boxes that were all the same size. This gives monospaced fonts a particular character. So, for instance, an “i” in Times Roman or Garamond or Helvetica-all proportionally spaced fonts-is much narrower than an “m”.īut in a monospaced font, they are all the same. Most type fonts are proportionally spaced meaning that the letters have different proportional widths depending on their design. Since they use only one set width for all the letters, numbers and punctuation, these fonts have come to be called monospaced. But there was a crucial difference to these fonts: every letter takes up the same amount of space on the line. The fonts that were introduced for the typewriter, and that we still think of as “typewriter fonts” are basically slab serif fonts. With the invention of the typewriter came the need for type fonts designed for this new technology. I’m still relearning how to type on electronic keyboards, and have to stop myself when I get excited from banging away like I was back at the old Remington. It was actually hard to learn how to strike the keys hard enough to send the metal levers toward the paper with enough impact to make a legible impression. The keys on the typewriters in our 9th grade classroom had been covered with blank key caps. One way is by changing how the title is presented when in the journal view.Okay, I’m going to come clean and admit that I learned to type on a big, hulking pile of metal call a Remington typewriter. It can be useful to distinguish the two views. There are two ways to view a Journal entry: from the Journals view where you can scroll through the different days, and the page view, where you see just the single day, plus its references. The title font applies to page titles and breadcrumbs (the path shown at the top of pages and in references). Variable nameįont feature settings may be used to specify, for example, non-slashed zeros (as in miA Quattro). Values specified by the miA Serif theme are shown as an exemplar. ![]() The following variables are available, and their purpose is mostly self-explanatory. The themes use CSS variables to control various aspects of presentation, and may therefore serve as a good foundation for user-specified typography choices. If you don’t want to use the marketplace, you can add one of the following lines to the start of your Logseq custom.css file (you can access this file from url( url( url( url( url( url( url( '') Customising the themes If you don’t see Plugins on the main menu, you will need to enable plug-ins: go to Logseq Settings from the main menu, then the Advanced section, and enable the Plug-in system. Once miA is installed, choose Themes from the main menu, then select the desired theme variation. To see the marketplace, choose Plugins from Logseq's main menu. ![]() MiA is available on the Logseq marketplace. Good for reading.Ĭompact version of miA Serif: smaller font, see more content at once. When you want to see your work in a classic serif format. Good for reading.Ĭompact version of miA Sans: smaller font, see more content at once. When you want to see your work in a modern sans serif format. More like a proportional font than Duo, with some narrower letters. ![]() Like a monospace font, but without the compromises imposed on wider letters. When you want to work with a monospace font, focusing on content not presentation. Priority is placed on providing a clean editing and reading experience in a familiar, productive environment. All of the miA themes share a common aesthetic and support light and dark mode (based on the selection in Logseq's Settings). MiA is a Logseq theme family inspired by the styling and typography used by macOS and iA Writer.
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