Taffy Keyboard Letter Style

A keyboard is an input device that contains a number of keys to be pressed with the fingers as an operating and control element. Today, most keyboards are electronic keyboards. However, there are also other functional principles, such as mechanical or pneumatic keyboards. Keyboards are available for a variety of technical devices, including computers, remote controls, telephones, and cell phones. Other possible input devices and variants are listed below.

A computer keyboard has more keys compared to a typewriter keyboard, which are used to operate the computer and its peripherals, if any. The computer keyboard sometimes has a different key assignment and also labeling. There is no fixed arrangement, each system architecture has certain peculiarities here, especially with notebooks there are further differences due to the space problem. The main differences to the typewriter keyboard are the shorter stroke distance (distance from the touch of the finger to the stroke) and the lower energy expenditure when pressing down the keys. As a result, the feel is also different. Some computer keyboards are backlit so that the keys are visible even in the dark. Font is a set of characters designed in a specific typeface and realized according to the respective technical conditions. It is used for text creation and processing, typesetting and printing, and forms the basis of typography. A typesetting font consists of individual characters, the glyphs: usually lowercase letters, uppercase letters, umlauts, accented characters, numerals, ligatures, punctuation marks, special characters and small caps. These are assembled manually, by machine or electronically to form words, lines and more complex orders.

The scope of such a character set depends on the technology and the intended application radius of a typesetting font. The functional efficiency of the characters of a typesetting script requires, in the case of Western European alphabetic scripts, that they are arranged horizontally, in neighborhood with other characters of the inventory, according to a uniform rhythmic and stylistic principle. Only then can they be combined into a coherent, graphically balanced typeface.

The form of typefaces in general, and that of typesetting in particular, is characterized by two different modes of access: Reading and seeing (in the sense of looking). These are due to the "double character of writing." Writing is both abstract (semantic level) and sensuously concrete (semiotic level). In routine reading, attention is focused on the abstract side of writing. Records in alphabetical writing are not deciphered letter by letter, but word and line outlines are grasped holistically by means of eye jumps (saccades). In the process, details of the form of the written image escape attention, recede into the background, and are not registered or are invisible.