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, 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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In typography, a bullet or bullet point, •, is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list. For example: Monica Erica Rita Tina Sandra...
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An em (from em quadrat) is a unit in the field of typography, equal to the currently specified point size. It corresponds to the body height of the typeface...
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Arabic typography is the typography of letters, graphemes, characters or text in Arabic script, for example for writing Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. 16th...
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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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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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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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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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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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Modern typographers view typography as a craft with a very long history tracing its origins back to the first punches and dies used to make seals and coinage...
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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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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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In publishing, a note is a brief text in which the author comments on the subject and themes of the book and names supporting citations. In the editorial...
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part of a webpage as a section. Asterism ⁂ Dinkus * * * Fleuron (typography) ❦ Section sign § Section (bookbinding) Paragraph Paragraphos "Definition...
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a font where 10 typed characters make up a line one inch long. Point (typography) Pitch (typewriter) Traditional point-size names Legros, Lucien Alphonse;...
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Modern Typography is a 1920s principle that expresses a reaction against what its proponents perceived as a decadence of typography and design emerging...
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Cleland, 1923. Example fleuron glyphs from a digital font. Asterism (typography) – Typographic symbol of three asterisks Dingbat – Typographic symbol...
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Bar (section Typography)
Look up Bar, bar, -bar, or BAR in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bar or BAR may refer to: Bar (establishment), selling alcoholic beverages Candy bar...
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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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In typography, a counter is the area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol (the counter-space/the hole of). The...
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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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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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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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Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility...
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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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In typography, an asterism, ⁂, is a typographic symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle, which is used for a variety of purposes. The...
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Typography, as an aspect of cartographic design, is the craft of designing and placing text on a map in support of the map symbols, together representing...
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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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Cyrillic script (redirect from Cyrillic typography)
Letters became distinguished between upper and lower case. West European typography culture was also adopted. The pre-reform letterforms, called poluustav...
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