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  2. Ransom note effect - Wikipedia

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    The ransom note effect may also occur when a web browser uses different fonts to display parts of a web page in different languages or encodings (or if a language uses glyphs from different code blocks, as is the case with Ancient Greek). To avoid this, web browsers try to use the same font for as much of the page as possible.

  3. Ransom - Wikipedia

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    In popular culture, ransom notes are often depicted as being made from words in different typefaces clipped from different sources (typically newspapers), in order to disguise the handwriting of the kidnapper, [7] leading to the phrase ransom note effect being used to describe documents containing jarringly mixed fonts.

  4. Forensic linguistics - Wikipedia

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    e. Forensic linguistics, legal linguistics, or language and the law is the application of linguistic knowledge, methods, and insights to the forensic context of law, language, crime investigation, trial, and judicial procedure. It is a branch of applied linguistics . Forensic linguistics is an umbrella term covering many applications to legal ...

  5. San Francisco (decorative typeface) - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco (decorative typeface) San Francisco is one of the original bitmap typefaces for the Apple Macintosh computer released in 1984. It was designed by Susan Kare to mimic the ransom-note effect and was used in early Mac software demos and Apple company fliers. [1] An official TrueType version was never made, and San Francisco was ...

  6. DNA, a ransom note and missing motive: Five key ... - AOL

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    Patsy, a former pageant queen herself, told authorities she’d found a handwritten ransom note on the stairs demanding $118,000, the exact amount of her husband’s bonus.

  7. The main goal of this research is to measure the effects of font type and spacing of on screen text and its readability in improving and boosting the learner’s ability to read easily, recall information, and enhance their reading speed and comprehension from on screen text with different topics. The readability of text on screens is necessary ...

  8. Noto fonts - Wikipedia

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    Noto is a font family comprising over 100 individual computer fonts, which are together designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard. As of October 2016, Noto fonts cover all 93 scripts defined in Unicode version 6.1 (April 2012), although fewer than 30,000 of the nearly 75,000 CJK unified ideographs in version 6.0 are covered.

  9. Using the Six Syllable Types to Teach Word Attack Skills - ed

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    The word final means last, so it will always be the last syllable in a base word or a word with no suffixes. The word stable means unchanging, so it will always be the same. The word syllable means a word or a word part with one vowel sound. Final stable syllable include these endings: -ble, -fle, -gle, - dle, -ple, and other word endings ...