Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type...
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In typography, a bullet or bullet point, •, is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list. For example: • Item 1 • Item 2 • Item...
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In publishing, a note is a brief text wherein the author comments upon the subject and themes of the book and names the supporting citations. In the editorial...
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Star (glyph) (redirect from Star (typography))
rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arrayed within...
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In European and West Asian typography and penmanship, the baseline is the line upon which most letters sit and below which descenders extend. In the example...
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Kinetic typography—the technical name for "moving text"—is an animation technique mixing motion and text to express ideas using video animation. This text...
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In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of the...
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In typography, a margin is the area between the main content of a page and the page edges. The margin helps to define where a line of text begins and ends...
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Glyph (redirect from Glyph (typography))
see this page. A glyph (/ɡlɪf/ GLIF) is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character"...
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Dagger (mark) (redirect from Double dagger (typography))
§, and the pilcrow ¶ – some of which were nonexistent in early modern typography. Partly because of this, superscript numerals have increasingly been used...
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Colon (punctuation) (redirect from Colon (typography))
colon. In modern typography, a colon will be placed outside the closing parenthesis introducing a list. In very early English typography, it could be placed...
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Vertical bar (redirect from Pipe (typography))
vertical bar, |, is a glyph with various uses in mathematics, computing, and typography. It has many names, often related to particular meanings: Sheffer stroke...
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com — Fonts. Retrieved 2004-10-27. Advanced Typography with Mac OS X Tiger Text & Fonts Apple's typography developer site TrueType Reference Manual LastResort...
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Summit (redirect from Acme (typography))
A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain...
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An em (from em quadrat) is a unit in the field of typography, equal to the currently specified point size. For example, one em in a 16-point typeface is...
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Southward, John (1911). Practical Printing: A Handbook to the Art of Typography. Retrieved 18 March 2023. "Hyphens, En Dashes, Em Dashes". Chicago Manual...
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Yiddish (redirect from Yiddish typography)
This article contains Hebrew text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish...
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The tie is a symbol in the shape of an arc similar to a large breve, used in Greek, phonetic alphabets, and Z notation. It can be used between two characters...
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heading for the latter section. They are a concern in the process of typography and pagination, where it may be desirable to have a page break follow...
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Traditional point-size names (redirect from Minion (typography))
than identical in number of points.[citation needed] Point (typography) Pica (typography) Typometer The existence of such small bodies was only notional...
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Automathography, 1985, p. 403. Felici, James (2003). "The complete manual of typography : a guide to setting perfect type". Berkeley, CA : Peachpit Press. "LaTeX/Theorems...
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In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. It is the...
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Postmodernism (redirect from Post-modern (typography))
Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break with modernism. What they...
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Cleland, 1923. Example fleuron glyphs from a digital font. Asterism (typography) – Typographic symbol (⁂) Dingbat – Typographic symbol class, a printers'...
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a font where 10 typed characters make up a line one inch long. Point (typography) Pitch (typewriter) Legros, Lucien Alphonse; Grant, John Cameron (1916)...
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Full stop (redirect from Full stop (typography))
font on typewriters, but in fact that convention replicates much earlier typography—the intent was to provide a clear break between sentences. This spacing...
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Graphic design (section Typography)
presentation of visual messages. Usually, graphic design uses the aesthetics of typography and the compositional arrangement of the text, ornamentation, and imagery...
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Web typography, like typography generally, is the design of pages – their layout and typeface choices. Unlike traditional print-based typography (where...
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Modern typography was a 1920s principle that expressed a reaction against what its proponents perceived to be a decadence of typography and design of the...
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OpenType (redirect from Microsoft Typography)
date to Microsoft's attempt to license Apple's advanced typography technology GX Typography in the early 1990s. Those negotiations failed, motivating...
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