Narkissim
Narkissim is a regular-contrast serif typeface for long reading that first appeared in 1982. It is often confused with its predecessor, Narkiss Text, which was published about 14 years earlier. The two indeed share many similar characteristics, but Narkissim is slightly narrower, and its strokes are soft and delicate. Narkissim was designed for phototypesetting technology, which allowed a wide range of users to benefit from its high availability. In the early 1980s, printed journalism in Israel gradually transitioned from machine typesetting to phototypesetting. Unprofessional use of the technology temporarily caused a decline in legibility and overall design quality. This was due to the use of new design options offered by the system, such as letter tightening, narrowing, widening, and artificial slanting in both directions at too sharp an angle, among others. Thanks to its widespread use in phototypesetting technology, and later as part of Microsoft’s Office suite, Narkissim gained a prominent and consistent presence in the local visual landscape. It can still be found today in both home and professional documents, on street signs, and in a notable number of books—certainly more so compared to its predecessor, Narkis Text. In the new version, weight, spacing, and proportions are optimized for text sizes (8–12 pt), and the family includes only two weights—regular and bold.
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Published
1980
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Designers
Zvi Narkiss
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Styles
5 styles
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Features
Fractions, Lining Figures, Old-style figures, Inferiors, Small Caps, Tabular lining figures
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Scripts
Hebrew, Latin
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Scripts
Hebrew, Latin
Specimens
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Narkissim
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- Fractions
- Lining Figures
- Old-style figures
- Inferiors
- Small Caps
- Tabular lining figures
גאווה ודעה קדומה
Pride & Prejudice
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נרקיסיזם Narcissism
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קלאסיקה עברית בגרסה דו־לשונית
A Hebrew classic in a bilingual version
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Narkissim
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Belles-lettres is a category of writing, originally meaning beautiful or fine writing. In the modern narrow sense, it is a label for literary works that do not fall into the major categories such as fiction, poetry, or drama. The phrase is sometimes used pejoratively for writing that focuses on the aesthetic qualities of language rather than its practical application. A writer of belles-lettres is a belletrist. Literally, belles-lettres is a French phrase meaning ‘beautiful’ or ‘fine’ writing. In this sense, therefore, it includes all literary works—especially fiction, poetry, drama, or essays—valued for their aesthetic qualities and originality of style and tone. The term thus can be used to refer to literature generally. The Nuttall Encyclopedia, for example, described belles-lettres as the “department of literature which implies literary culture and belongs to the domain of art, whatever the subject may be or the special form; it includes poetry, the drama, fiction, and criticism”, while the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition describes it as “the more artistic and imaginative forms of literature, as poetry or romance, as opposed to more pedestrian and exact studies”.
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ספרות יפה (בלועזית: בֵּלֶטְרִיסְטִיקָה) היא ספרות אמנותית הנחלקת לשלושה ענפים עיקריים, לפי דרך כתיבתה: שירה, פרוזה ומחזאות. ספרות יפה היא כל יצירה לשונית שיש לה ערך אסתטי. בהגדרה זו נכנסות יצירות סיפוריות (נרטיביות), בהן ההתרחשויות מוצגות באמצעות תיאור מילולי, וגם יצירות דרמטיות, לדוגמה מחזות, בהן ההתרחשויות מוצגות חזותית. על פי תכניה הספרות האמנותית מתחלקת לסוגות רבות, בהן: שירה לירית ושירה אפית, ספרות רומנטית, ספרות בלשית, ספרות מדע בדיוני ופנטזיה, רומנים היסטוריים, קומדיות, טרגדיות ודומותיהן. לפי סגנון הכתיבה הספרות האמנותית מתחלקת לזרמים שונים, הזרם הקלאסי, הזרם הריאליסטי, הזרם הנטורליסטי, הזרם הרומנטי, תיאטרון האבסורד, הזרם האקזיסטנציאליסטי ועוד רבים אחרים. הספרות היפה מתוחמת גם על ידי הנגדה, היא לא ספרות תיעודית או ספרות לימודית או ספרות טכנית או ספרות שימושית. למרות זאת לא תמיד הגבולות חדים — ספר בישול אינו שייך לספרות יפה, אך הוספת סיפורים פולקלוריסטים למתכונים או הוספת מתכונים לספר עלילתי (לדוגמה, ״אפשר גם בלי קביאר״ מאת יוהנס מריו זימל או ״עגבניות ירוקות מטוגנות״ של פאני פלאג) מביאה לחציית קווים. הספרות היפה היא, בדרך כלל, ספרות בדיונית, אך לעיתים נכתבת ספרות תיעודית תוך שימוש בכלים אמנותיים וכך היצירה הופכת להיות ראויה לתואר ״ספרות יפה״.
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אfáט
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The Butterflies
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Brüder Grimm nannten sich die Sprachwissenschaftler und Volkskundler Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) und Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) bei gemeinsamen Veröffentlichungen, wie zum Beispiel ihren weltberühmten Kinder und Hausmärchen und dem Deutschen Wörterbuch, das sie begannen.
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האחים גרים (בגרמנית: die Brüder Grimm או die Gebrüder Grimm) היו זוג אחים אקדמאיים גרמנים אשר עסקו בחקר התרבות הגרמנית בתחומי שפה, ספרות, אורח חיים, פולקלור, משפט, דת, היסטוריה ומיתולוגיה, שליקטו והוציאו לאור סיפורי מעשיות מהפולקלור הגרמני. כמספרי הסיפורים הידועים ביותר של אגדות עם באירופה, האגדות שאספו הפכו לשם־דבר.
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רישיות קטנות בגובה העברית small caps
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אֵזוֹפּוֹס æsop’s מִשְׁלֵי fables
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משאלות
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Exclusive הרי החדשות ועיקרן תחילה TODAY חדשה מרעישה Breaking News
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Old-Style Figures 1765—1924
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Narkissim
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- Lining Figures
- Old-style figures
- Inferiors
- Small Caps
- Tabular lining figures
Glyphs
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- ב
- ג
- ד
- ה
- ו
- ז
- ח
- ט
- י
- ך
- כ
- ל
- ם
- מ
- ן
- נ
- ס
- ע
- ף
- פ
- ץ
- צ
- ק
- ר
- ש
- ת
- יִ
- ײַ
- שׁ
- שׂ
- שּׁ
- שּׂ
- אַ
- אָ
- אּ
- בּ
- גּ
- דּ
- הּ
- וּ
- זּ
- טּ
- יּ
- ךּ
- כּ
- לּ
- מּ
- נּ
- סּ
- ףּ
- פּ
- צּ
- קּ
- רּ
- שּ
- תּ
- וֹ
- בֿ
- כֿ
- פֿ
- A
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- F
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- N
- O
- P
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- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
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- X
- Y
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- À
- Á
- Â
- Ã
- Ä
- Å
- Æ
- Ç
- È
- É
- Ê
- Ë
- Ì
- Í
- Î
- Ï
- Ð
- Ñ
- Ò
- Ó
- Ô
- Õ
- Ö
- Ø
- Ù
- Ú
- Û
- Ü
- Ý
- Þ
- ẞ
- IJ
- Œ
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- ȷ
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OpenType Features
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Fractions
Around 7/10 of the languages in the world use Latin alphabet
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Lining Figures
The longest anyone has held their breath underwater is 24.5 minutes
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Old-style figures
Stars in the sky represent their location from 4,000 years ago
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Inferiors
Caffeine — C8H10N4O2
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Small Caps
אירוע vip למוזמנים בלבד
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Tabular lining figures
Tel-Aviv and Zürich are 2,851 Km apart
About
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Published
1980
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Designers
Zvi Narkiss
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Styles
5 styles
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Features
Fractions, Lining Figures, Old-style figures, Inferiors, Small Caps, Tabular lining figures
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Scripts
Hebrew, Latin
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Languages Support
Selected languages: Afrikaans, Catalan, Welsh, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Basque, Filipino, Faroese, French, Irish, Galician, Hebrew, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Portuguese, Albanian, Swedish, Swahili, Zulu
Narkissim is a regular-contrast serif typeface for long reading that first appeared in 1982. It is often confused with its predecessor, Narkiss Text, which was published about 14 years earlier. The two indeed share many similar characteristics, but Narkissim is slightly narrower, and its strokes are soft and delicate. Narkissim was designed for phototypesetting technology, which allowed a wide range of users to benefit from its high availability. In the early 1980s, printed journalism in Israel gradually transitioned from machine typesetting to phototypesetting. Unprofessional use of the technology temporarily caused a decline in legibility and overall design quality. This was due to the use of new design options offered by the system, such as letter tightening, narrowing, widening, and artificial slanting in both directions at too sharp an angle, among others. Thanks to its widespread use in phototypesetting technology, and later as part of Microsoft’s Office suite, Narkissim gained a prominent and consistent presence in the local visual landscape. It can still be found today in both home and professional documents, on street signs, and in a notable number of books—certainly more so compared to its predecessor, Narkis Text. In the new version, weight, spacing, and proportions are optimized for text sizes (8–12 pt), and the family includes only two weights—regular and bold.
Languages Support
Selected languages: Afrikaans, Catalan, Welsh, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Basque, Filipino, Faroese, French, Irish, Galician, Hebrew, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Portuguese, Albanian, Swedish, Swahili, Zulu
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