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Golf Extreme Ironing Ice Hockey Handball Baseball Football Cheese Rolling World of Sports Regular Bold Italic Bold Italic World of Sports Above: A row of targets at an archery competition. Left: An archer draws his bow to strike a target. Right: Times New Roman is very popular among newspapers around the world Although no longer used by The Times, Times New Roman is still widely used for book typography. It is one of the most successful and ubiquitous typefaces in history.

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Cheese Rolling

Football

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Baseball

Extreme IroningDemolition Derby

Golf

Ice Hockey

4 Archery

World of Sports

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influential in the subsequent development of a number of serif typefaces both before and after the start of the digital-font era. One notable example is Georgia, shown at right, which has very similar stroke shapes to Times New Roman but wider serifs.

Although no longer used by The Times, Times New Roman is still widely used for book typography. It is one of the most successful and ubiquitous typefaces in history.

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Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper, The Times, in 1931,

designed by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and, ironically, typograph-ically behind the times. The font was supervised by Morison and drawn by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of The Times.

Morison used an older font named Plantin as the basis for his design, but made revisions for legibility and economy of space. As the old type used by the newspaper had been called Times Old Roman, Morison’s revision became Times New Roman and made its debut in the 3 October 1932 issue of The Times newspaper. After one year, the design was released for commercial sale. The Times stayed with Times New Roman for 40 years, but new production techniques and the format change from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004 have caused the newspaper to switch font five times since 1972. However, all the new fonts have been variants of the original New Roman font.Because of its ubiquity, the typeface has been

Times New Roman

a StrokeAny of the linear elements within a letter; originally, any mark or dash made by the movement of a pen or brush in writing.

The arrows were made of pine and consisted of a mainshaft and a 15–20 centimeter (6–8 inches) long foreshaft with a flint point. There are no definite earlier bows; previous pointed shafts are known, but may have been launched by atlatls rather than bows. The oldest bows known so far come from the Holmegård swamp in Denmark. Bows eventually replaced the atlatl as the predominant means for launching shafted projectiles, on every continent except Australia (though the atlatl persisted alongside the bow in parts of the Americas, notably Mexico (from which its Nahuatl name comes) and amongst the Inuit).

Bows and arrows have been present in Egyptian culture since its predynastic origins. In the Levant, artifacts which may be arrow-shaft straighteners are known from the Natufian culture, (ca. 12,800–10,300 BP (before present)) onwards. The Khiamian and PPN A shouldered Khiam-points may well be arrowheads.

Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow. Archery has historically been used for hunt-ing and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activ-ity. One who practices archery is typically known as an “archer” or “bowman.”

The bow seems to have been invented in the late Paleolithic or early Mesolithic periods. The oldest indication for its use in Europe comes from the Stellmoor in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg, Germany and date from the late Paleolithic, about 10,000–9,000 BC.

Above: A row of targets at an archery competition.

Left: An archer draws his bow to strike a target.Right: Times New Roman is very popular among newspapers around the world

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eliminating non-essential elements. The lowercase has tall ascenders, which rise above the cap line. The uppercase characters present proportions similar to those of classical roman capitals.

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Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed between 1924 and 1926 by

Paul Renner. It is based on geometric shapes that became representative visual elements of the Bauhaus design style of 1919–1933. Commissioned by the Bauer type foundry, Futura was commercially released in 1927.

Although Renner was not associated with the Bauhaus, he shared many of its idioms and believed that a modern typeface should express modern models, rather than be a revival of a previous design. Renner’s initial design included several geometrically constructed alternative characters and ranging (old-style) figures, which can be found in the typeface Architype Renner.Futura has an appearance of efficiency and forwardness. The typeface is derived from simple geometric forms (near-perfect circles, triangles and squares) and is based on strokes of near-even weight, which are low in contrast. (This is most visible in the almost perfectly round stroke of the o, but the shape is actually slightly ovoid.) In designing Futura, Renner avoided the decorative,

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other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team get three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning; nine innings make up a game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game was brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia.

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond.

Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate’s hit or

Above: A pro game of baseball during sunset.

Left: The Pitcher prepares to throw the ball to the catcher and strike the batter out.

Right: Futura is very popular in film titles. Director Stanley Kubrick once claimed it was his favorite.

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Since the launch of the eMac in 2002, Myriad has been replacing Apple Garamond as Apple Computer’s corporate font. It is now used in all of their marketing and on their products. Myriad is also used in the corporate identity of Wells Fargo and Modern Telegraph as their primary headline typeface.

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Better known today for being Apple’s main font on their website, iPod and more, Myriad is a

humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly in the period 1990–92 for Adobe Systems. Myriad is a multiple masters face that works with an intelligent software “engine” to allow the user to generate variations in width and weight by accessing a broad range of stroke widths arranged on individual character rasters.

Humanist sans serif typefaces have an organic structure, and an underlying armature similar to old style serifs. Uppercase characters tend to have a horizontal axis similar to the monumental capitals found in inscriptions in the Roman forum. The lowercase often follow the model of Carolingian script. Humanist sans-serif types have subtle organic shapes balanced by varying letter widths and open counter shapes. The voice of humanist sans-serif types is warm and friendly without the cool directness of realist sans-serifs faces like Unvers. Myriad works well for both text and display typography.

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has a one second head start and can reach speeds up to 70mph, enough to knock over and injure a spectator, this rarely occurs.

Due to the steepness and uneven surface of the hill there are usually a number of injuries, ranging from sprained ankles to broken bones and concussion. A first aid service is provided by the local ambulance at the bottom of the hill, with a volunteer rescue group on hand to carry down to them any casualties who do not end up at the bottom through gravity. A number of ambulance vehicles will attend the event, since there is invariably at least one and often several more injuries requiring emergency hospital treatment.

The Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling is a 200 year old annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper’s Hill, near Gloucester, England. It is traditionally for the people of the local village, but now people from all over the world take part.

From the top of the hill a round of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled, and competitors race down the hill after it. The first person over the finish line at the bottom of the hill wins the cheese. In theory, competitors are aiming to catch the cheese, but since it

Above: Participants begin chasing after the cheese.

Left: Due to the steep hill, several tumbles and accidents happen annually.

Right: Myriad Pro is very popular in contemporary marketing of Apple products.

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had left him, and that he had lost all interest in anything. Thus Siegel abandoned the project and started a new life, working on bringing color to Macintosh, and became an Internet design expert.

Zapfino’s development had become seriously delayed, until Zapf found the courage to present the project to Linotype. They were prepared to complete it and reorganized the project. Zapf worked with Linotype to create four alphabets and various ornaments, flourishes, and other dingbats. Zapfino was released in 1998 as a Type 1 font.

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Zapfino is a calligraphic typeface designed for Linotype by renowned typeface designer Hermann

Zapf in 1998. It is based on an alphabet Zapf originally penned in 1944. As a font, it makes extensive use of ligatures and character variations (for example, the lower case letter d has nine variations).

In 1983, Zapf had completed the typeface AMS Euler with Donald Knuth and David Siegel of Stanford University for the American Mathematical Society, a typeface for mathematical composition including fraktur and Greek letters.

Zapf remembered a page of calligraphy from his sketchbook from 1944, and considered the possibility of making a typeface from it. He had previously tried to create a calligraphic typeface for Stempel in 1948, but hot metal composition was too limiting on the freedom of swash characters. Such a pleasing result could only be achieved using modern digital technology, so Zapf and Siegel began programming the software necessary.

Unfortunately, just before the project was completed, Siegel wrote a letter to Zapf, saying that his girlfriend

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the driver’s-side door area is forbidden. The driver’s door is often required to be painted with contrasting colors, for visibility. Most demolition derbies are held on dirt tracks, or in open fields, that are usually soaked with water. This causes the competition area to become muddy, which in turn helps to further slow the vehicles. Some drivers use both the front and rear of the vehicle to ram the other competitors. Others tend to use only the rear end of the vehicle, to help protect the engine compartment from damage. Derbies have local firefighting crews standing by.

Demolition derbies were first held at various fairs and race-tracks by independent promoters in the 1950’s. Don Basile is often credited with inventing the demolition derby at Carrell Speedway in 1947. Another source states stock car racer Larry Mendelsohn created the concept for demolition derbies at New York State’s Islip Speedway in 1958 after realizing many people favored wrecks to racing.

Demolition Derby is a motorsport usually presented at fairs and festivals. The typical demolition derby event consists of five or more drivers competing by deliberately ramming their vehicles into one another. The last driver whose vehicle is still operational is awarded the victory.

Demolition derbies can be very dangerous. Although serious injuries are rare, occasionally they do happen. Drivers are typically required to sign a waiver to release the promoter of an event from liability. To make the event safer, all glass is removed from the vehicle, and deliberately ramming

Above: A car hits another car at such speed that it rolls up on top of it.

Left: Heavy engine revving damage often produce fireballs.Right: Zapfino is used in this banner for the Seattle Wedding Show in a local mall.

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forms. The group includes Palatine, Sistina, Michaelangelo titling, and Aldus, which takes inspiration from printing types cut by Francesco Griffo c. 1495 in the print shop of Aldus Manutius.

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Palatino is the name of a large typeface family that began as an old style serif typeface designed by

Hermann Zapf initially released in 1948 by the Linotype foundry.

In 1999, Zapf revised Palatino for Linotype and Microsoft, called Palatino Linotype. The revised family incorporated Latin, Greek, Cyrillic character sets.

Named after 16th century Italian master of calligraphy Giambattista Palatino, Palatino is based on the humanist fonts of the Italian Renaissance, which mirror the letters formed by a broad nib pen; this gives a calligraphic grace. But where the Renaissance faces tend to use smaller letters with longer vertical lines (ascenders and descenders) with lighter strokes, Palatino has larger proportions, and is considered much easier to read.

It remains one of the most widely-used (and copied) text typefaces, has been adapted to virtually every type of technology, and is one of the ten most used serif typefaces. It is one of several related typefaces by Zapf, each showing influence of the Italian Renaissance letter

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on top of large bronze statues; in the middle of a street; underwater; whilst parachuting; and under the ice cover of a lake. The performances conducted are solo or by groups.

As extreme ironing has branched off, the conditions can gain in extreme activity. For example a branch of ironing has been developed that includes both bungee jumping and well-pressed clothing. Bungee ironing is, what some would call, the ultimate in the thrill of extreme ironing.

The ‘sport’ gained international attention after a documentary entitled Extreme Ironing: Pressing for Victory, was produced for Britain’s Channel 4. The program followed the British team’s efforts and eventual Bronze and Gold placings in the first international extreme ironing contest in Germany. The film later aired on the National Geographic Channel.

Extreme Ironing is an extreme sport and a performance art in which people take an ironing board to a remote location and iron items of clothing. According to the official website, extreme ironing is “the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt.”

Purists of the sport claim that it was started in 1997 in Leicester, England by Phil Shaw in his back garden. Some locations where such performances have taken place include a mountainside of a difficult climb; a forest; in a canoe; while skiing or snowboarding;

Above: An extreme ironer irons his shirt while water skiing.

Left: Underwater Extreme Ironing has become a popular sub genre of the sport.

Right: The Michael Bay WWII movie “Pearl Harbor” uses Palatino for its title.

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Verdana is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter in 1996.

Verdana was designed to be readable at small sizes on a computer screen. The lack of serifs, large x-height (heights of lower-case letters, as scaled to the letter x being exactly equal to one), wide proportions, loose letter-spacing, large counters (spaces inside partially enclosed portions of letters or symbols such as c, s, or curved quotation marks), and emphasized distinctions between similarly-shaped characters are chosen to increase legibility.

As an example of the attention given to making similar characters easily distinguishable, the digit 1 in Verdana was given a horizontal base and a hook in the upper left to distinguish it from lowercase l (L)and uppercase I (i).

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opponent’s end zone. After a touchdown, the scoring team attempts a try to kick it over the crossbar and through the goal posts for 1 point, or run or pass it into the end zone for 2 points.A field goal is worth 3 points, and scored by kick-ing the ball over the bar and through the uprights.

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Football is played on a field 100 yards by 50 yards. At each end of the field is a goal line and the end zone. Yard lines cross the field every 5 yards, and are numbered every 10 yards from each goal line to the 50-yard line. At the back of each end zone are two uprights connected by a crossbar 10 feet from the ground. Each team has 11 players on the field at a time. A standard football game consists of four 15-minute quarters.

The team that takes possession of the ball (the offense) has four downs, in which to advance the ball at least 10 yards toward their opponent’s (the defense’s) end zone. When the offense succeeds in gaining at least 10 yards, it gets a first down, meaning the team has another set of four downs to gain yet another 10 yards or to score. If the offense fails to gain a first down after 4 downs, the other team gets possession of the ball at the point where the fourth down ended, beginning with their first down to advance the ball in the opposite direction.

A touchdown is worth 6 points. It is scored when a player runs the ball into or catches a pass in his

Football is a team sport that combines strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score points by advancing the ball into the opposing team’s end zone. The ball can be advanced by running it or by passing it to a teammate. Points can be scored in a variety of ways, including carrying the ball over the opponent’s goal line, catching a pass thrown over that goal line, kicking the ball through the goal posts at the opponent’s end zone, or tackling an opposing ball carrier within his end zone. The winner is the team with the most points when the time expires.

Top: A view of a football field from an end zone looking down field.

Left: Peyton Manning is regarded as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.

Right: Verdana is a very popular legible internet sans-serif font.

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Kettler was once quoted about how the name was chosen. The font was nearly released with the name “Messenger.” After giving it some thought, Kettler said, “A letter can be just an ordinary messenger, or it can be the courier, which radiates dignity, prestige, and stability.”

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Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface designed to resemble the output from a strike-on typewriter.

The typeface was designed by Howard “Bud” Kettler in 1955. The design of the original Courier typeface was commissioned in the 1950’s by IBM for use in typewriters, but they did not secure legal exclusivity to the typeface and it soon became a standard font used throughout the typewriter industry. As a monospaced font, it has recently found renewed use in the electronic world in situations where columns of characters must be consistently aligned. It has also become an industry standard for all screenplays to be written in 12 point Courier or a close variant.

The font was later redrawn by Adrian Frutiger for the IBM Selectric Composer series of electric typewriters.

12 point Courier New was also the U.S. State Department’s standard typeface until January 2004, when it was replaced with 14 point Times New Roman. Reasons for the change included the desire for a more “modern” and “legible” font.

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by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules.” Golf competition is generally played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual or a team.

The modern game originated in Scotland around the 12th century, with shepherds knocking stones into rabbit holes on the current site of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.

Golf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players (golfers), using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes.

Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on golf “courses”, each of which features a unique design, although courses typically consist of either nine or 18 holes. Golf is defined, in the rules of golf, as “playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole

Above: A ball sets on a tee awaiting to be struck by a golfer.

Left: A golfer just after striking the ball.

Right: Courier is associated with typewriters because this was the typical typeface used on them.

−4 Condor 4 strokes under par−3 Albatross 3 strokes under par−2 Eagle 2 strokes under par−1 Birdie 1 stroke under par0 Par equal to par+1 Bogey 1 stroke over par+2 Double Bogey 2 strokes over par+3 Triple Bogey 3 strokes over par+4 Quadruple Bogey 4 strokes over par

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There were many typeface designs based on Clarendon letterforms seen in type catalogs

from 1866 to 1875. Adobe’s Rosewood, released in 1994, is modeled after a chromatic design from William Page in 1874.

(“Chromatic” or multicolored typefaces were first created by carefully registering and overprinting two or sometimes three versions of each letter in different colors to produce a flamboyant appearance). Rosewood’s Regular version is designed to overlay the Fill version for two-color printing. The Font’s decorated look and heaviness does not lend itself well to use as a body font. It is best used as an accent or headline.

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“service area” (between the two parallel lines), off the “front wall” and across the “service line” (which is located exactly half-way down the court from the front wall).

Players take turns at hitting the ball off the front wall before the ball bounces twice following their opponent’s previous shot. Most handball games take place in a four-walled court but there are also three-walled and one-wall versions of the game.

Handball-like games have originated in several places at different times. Hieroglyphs in the temple of Osiris in Egypt portray priests taking part in a game very similar to handball. Mesoamerican civilizations in South and Central America had a form of handball-like game, which was a large part of pre-Columbian culture.

The modern game of handball originated in Ireland and Scotland. The earliest written record of a handball game is in the town statutes of Galway, which in 1527 forbade the playing of ball games against the walls of the town.

Handball is played in a court which measures 40 feet by 20 feet with a front wall 20 ft high, off which the ball must be struck.

The objective of a game is to score a set total of points before your opponent does. Points are only scored by the person serving the ball. In other words, if a player wins a rally but did not serve at the start of that rally they only win the right to serve, and thus the chance to score after a subsequent rally. The serving player has two opportunities to hit the ball, from the

Top: Teams compete in a game of handball on the enclosed court.

Left: A player attempts to strike the ball.

Right: Rosewood is best used when trying to convey a vintage poster look (circa 1860 - 1910).

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desired. For this reason, Lithos has been compared to Rudolf Koch’s typeface, Neuland, which was originally intended to be a modern reinterpretation of blackletter, but received similarly broad use.

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Lithos is a glyphic sans-serif typeface designed by Carol Twombly in 1989 for Adobe. Lithos is

inspired by the unadorned, geometric letterforms of the engravings found on Ancient Greek public buildings. The typeface consists of only capital letters, and comes in five weights, with no italics.

According to Twombly, Lithos only used Greek inscriptions as inspiration, making Lithos more of a modern reinterpretation than a faithful reproduction. Twombly also designed Trajan and Charlemagne based respectively on ancient Roman and Byzantine inscriptions. Those typefaces, unlike Lithos, were modeled more directly upon their historical counterparts. One example of Lithos’ departure from historical accuracy is the inclusion of bold weights, which never existed in historical Greek inscriptions.

Publications associated with African, African-American and Southwestern cultures have used Lithos for its “ethnic” feel, even if it is the wrong ethnicity. Lithos has also become something of a generic stand-in whenever a “primitive” feel is

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several McGill University students. This game featured the use of a puck to keep it within the rink; the goals were goal posts 6 feet apart, and the game was 60 minutes.

A game consists of 3 periods of 20 minutes each, the clock running only when the puck is in play. The teams change ends at the end of each period.Since ice hockey is a full contact sport and body checks are allowed, injuries can be a common occurrence. Protective equipment is requirement.

The objective of the game is to score goals by shooting a hard rubber puck, into the opponent’s goal net, which is placed at the opposite end of the rink. The players control the puck using a long stick with a blade that curved at one end.

Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice rink, in which skaters use sticks to direct a puck into the opposing team’s goal. It is a fast-paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover, such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia, eastern Europe, and Russia.

On March 3, 1875 the first organized indoor game was played at Montreal’s Victoria Skating Rink between two sides of nine-player teams made up of

Top: A Goalie poses to protect the goal from being scored on by the opposing team.

Left: Hockey is know for its breakout of fights.

Right: Lithos Pro is based on ancient Greek stone chiseled architectural lettering.