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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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    ship. East Asian typography History of Western typography Hua Sui Printing press Publishing industry in China Samuel Dyer Typography Wang Zhen, also known...
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  • The history of typography may refer to: History of Western typography, for the history of typography in Europe and the wider Western world History of typography...
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    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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    Venetian style History of Western typography Record type – typeface designed to allow medieval manuscripts to be published as near-facsimiles of the originalsPages...
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  • Comma (redirect from Comma (typography))
    spread of the printing press History of printing in East Asia History of sentence spacing History of Western typography "comma". Oxford English Dictionary...
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    Nicolas Jenson (category Printers of incunabula)
    Jenson, 1471 Pliny the Elder's Natural History, printer Nicolas Jenson, 1476 Bembo History of western typography Typeface Adobe Jenson Roman typeface William...
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    Blackletter (category Typography)
    blackletter served as one of the major typefaces in the history of Western typography. Carolingian minuscule was the direct ancestor of blackletter. Blackletter...
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    widows Style guides Typesetting History of printing History of printing in East Asia History of Western typography Spread of European movable type printing...
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    Roman type (category Typography)
    In Latin script typography, roman is one of the three main kinds of historical type, alongside blackletter and italic. Sometimes called normal, it is...
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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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    bold sans-serif for emphasis. Font History of western typography Digital print matrix "Jannon". French Ministry of Culture. "Monotype Garamond". Fonts...
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    ancestor of English aitch. With the spread of printing, several styles of Latin typography emerged with typefaces based on various minuscules of the Middle...
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    Italic type (category Typography)
    blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history of Western typography. Owing to the influence from calligraphy, italics...
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    Claude Garamond (category Year of birth uncertain)
    History of Western typography Movable type Printing Press Punchcutting Typesetting A document called the Le Bé Memorandum (based on the memories of Garamond's...
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    Sort (typesetting) (category Typography)
    process. History of western typography Letterform Matrix (printing) Typeface Typography Typeface anatomy A.A. Stewart (1919). TYPESETTING: a primer of information...
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    Bembo (section History)
    word processors and general-purpose computers. Antiqua History of Western typography Typography An alternative suggestion has been made by printer and...
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    map labeling or lettering, but typography is more in line with the general usage of typography. Throughout the history of maps to the present, their labeling...
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    Forme (printing) (category Typography)
    periods to allow reprint, this is called "standing type". History of western typography Typography Ryder, John (1957). Printing for Pleasure. London: The...
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    English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric...
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    It is the equivalent of prosody stress in speech. The most common methods in Western typography fall under the general technique of emphasis through a change...
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    Typesetting (category Typography)
    widely used. Dingbat Formula editor History of Western typography Ligature (typography) The Long Short Cut Point (typography) Prepress Printing Printing press...
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    Sans forgetica (category Typography)
    Sans forgetica is a variation of a sans-serif typeface, claimed to assist students in retaining the information which they read. Two years after its release...
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    Humanist minuscule (category Western calligraphy)
    Ludovico Arrighi in the early sixteenth century. In the history of Western typography humanist minuscule gained prominence as a model for the typesetter's...
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  • between characters. Additionally, these systems use advanced digital typography techniques such as automatically choosing among different glyphs for the...
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    lithography was a copy of the Quran, using a printing press imported from Russia to the city of Tabriz. Despite the use of movable typography diminishing between...
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    Wang Zhen (inventor) (category Year of birth unknown)
    History of typography in East Asia Woodblock printing Hua Sui History of western typography Printing Press Johannes Gutenberg Xu Guangqi History of Agriculture...
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    dot the land. The recorded history of Sardinia begins with its contacts with the various people who sought to dominate western Mediterranean trade in classical...
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    Q (section History)
    their existence. The long-tailed Q had fallen out of use with the advent of early digital typography, as many early digital fonts could not choose different...
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  • Giovanni Mardersteig (category Grand Officers of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic)
    recipient of the Bodoni Prize of the City of Parma, AIGA Medal (1968), and the Frederic W. Goudy Award (1972). Fine press History of Western typography Small...
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