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    <title>Slabo 27px in use</title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Google Ads]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Contributed by <a href="/contributors/487/frankrolf">Frank Grießhammer</a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/24249/google-ads"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/79283/upto-700xauto/69b53819/1/png/IMG_8280.png"/></a><br/><br/><i><span><span class="fiu-attribution__is-own">Photo:&nbsp;<a href="https://fontsinuse.com/contributors/487/frankrolf">Frank Grießhammer</a></span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">Public Domain</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/89617/slabo-27px"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/6/5192/440/4/5c0687f0/slabo-27px.png"/></a><br/><br/><p>A certain kind of Google Ad uses John Hudson’s size-specific design <strong>Slabo</strong>. Slabo is interesting because it comes in two very uncommon optical sizes – 13 and 27 pixels, respectively.</p>

<p>There is not a lot of information to be found about Slabo, except the <a href="http://fonts.google.com/specimen/Slabo+13px">description on Google Fonts</a>, which suggests there may be other optical sizes forthcoming:</p>

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<p>Slabo is a collection of size-specific fonts for use in online advertising and other web uses. The collection currently includes […] Slabo 13px, and Slabo 27px. Each font in the collection is fine-tuned for use at the pixel size in its name.</p>
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<p>I doubt any of the ads collected use Slabo at either 13 or 27 pixels – however, knowing this constraint helps understand some of the design’s idiosyncrasies.<br />
It would be educational to see a specimen of the typeface in its intended environment, or read some of the decisions that went into making the design. For now, the <a href="http://github.com/TiroTypeworks/Slabo">description on Slabo’s Github repository</a> is mainly concerned with font production, <a href="http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/66815/whats-with-size-specific-fonts">while users try explaining</a> the design in their own way.</p>

<p>I want to believe the name <em>Slabo</em> was inspired by the <a href="http://youtu.be/INOVuZQsxKQ">relaxed music of Peter Green</a>.</p>

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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>Frank Grießhammer</author>
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