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| | typography - Columbia Encyclopedia article about typography |
 | | typography (tīpŏg`rəfē), the art of printing printing, means of producing reproductions of written material or images in multiple copies. | | | Before the development of typography, related arts flourished for centuries. | | | A highly conservative art, modern typography adheres closely to tradition. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/typography
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| | :: Arts :: Graphic Design :: Typography |
| | Typography is the art of creating and using letterforms as a graphic design tool. | | | Cavendish Typography - Gallery of images and text relating to typography and print through the ages. | | | Alphabytes - Dedicated to excellence in graphic design and the promotion of typography, calligraphy and the lettering arts. |
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http://www.localadsearch.com/Arts/Graphic_Design/Typography
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| | Keith Tam: Wolfgang Weingart |
| | Most famous for his experimental, expressive work that broke the mould of classical Swiss typography, Weingart began his typographic career in the early sixties as an apprentice of hand composition at a typesetting firm. | | | Some of his personal work is almost akin to landscape paintings, only that his paintbrush is replaced by type, rules and screens. | | | He doesn’t seem to perceive a divide between fine art and typography. |
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http://keithtam.net/writings/ww/ww.html
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| | Typebox / Thinkbox / History |
| | His contributions to the art of printing and typography were: small capitals, our modern system of punctuation, fine italic types, he helped to transform printing into a profession and employed a scholar as proofreader. | | | Royal patronage gave rise to great achievements in theater, music, art and architecture. | | | Transitional = mix between calligraphy based and constructed/surface based design—Romain du Roi and Bodoni |
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http://www.typebox.com/3thinkbox/3hist3_2.html
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| | AIGA - Typography |
| | This is not a place for the typographically indifferent. | | | Is it slipping into the void of the commercial industry beyond repair. | | | Super Duty is a ready-for-action stencil font that is somewhere between serious and fun available from typeco.com |
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http://designforum.aiga.org/content.cfm?Alias=df_typography
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| | SimpleBits Typography Resources? |
| | Both the writing and the design of the book itself is a work of art. | | | He did some radical and amazing things in the early 90s, but the only reason he made a name for himself is because his style reflected the ideas and overall style of his audience. | | | Ilene Strizver of The Type Studio has posted some great PDF articles about typography, too. |
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http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2005/05/18/type.html
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| | Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web clagnut/blog |
| | i’m new to the art of web typography, and will surely read your site with great intereset. | | | I believe you should look for textbooks used at academic levels in art schools where one teaches illustration. | | | None of the publishers I write for, that’s fur shure. |
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http://www.clagnut.com/blog/1600
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| | Miscellaneous font links |
| | From the site: dynTypo is a collection of work and research by various designers, programmers and artists interested in the possibilities of dynamic and interactive typography in the multimedia arts scene. | | | Many say that they are closer to Bodoni than to Didot--just look at the question mark, but Porchez based his work on late style Didot's published around 1830. | | | Unbelievably nice web pages for a typography course atught by John Chastain at the Herron School of Art. |
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http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/typography.html
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| | Transition II: Typography |
| | Typography is just as much a part of the paratext as is the cover or any of the ancillary things that accompany a text that are not, strictly speaking, a part of the text; typography is textual, helping us or hindering us in our reading. | | | But one must bear in mind the paratextual value which can belong to other types of expression: iconic (the illustrations), material (everything which proceeds, for example, from the sometimes very significant typographical choices made in the composition of a book)(nlh 265). | | | Typography is, among all paratexts, the one which is most closely joined to text; it is, in fact, the very body of the word that the author has written. |
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http://www.mouton-noir.org/writings/thesis/ch2/transition2.html
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| | Technorati Tag: typography |
| | Found myself downright barking at a professional photographer tonight who had argued that restricting access to her work online was better than... | | | Aerotype Typography A limited collection of boutique type designs. | | | New graffiti fonts, hand-inked faces, edgy gothic type, stencils, pixel fonts and more. |
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http://technorati.com/tag/typography
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| | SFMOMA Exhibitions Exhibition Overview: Belles Lettres |
| | Belles Lettres: The Art of Typography is generously supported by an anonymous donor. | | | Literally "beautiful letters" in French, the term belles lettres aptly describes works of graphic design in which typography plays an aesthetic role, elevating print communication to the realm of art. | | | The use of typography to generate emotive response is not restricted to printed material; a number of films also rely upon ingenious application of the letter form. |
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http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=178
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| | Typography - definition of Typography in Encyclopedia |
| | Typography is broader than type design, the art of designing typefaces – the size and style of the letters or characters. | | | Typography is the art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications. | | | Contrast typography with orthography, a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols and the study of correct spelling according to established usage. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Typography
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| | Typecasting |
| | This is a film that seems to be obsessed with details, as if they expected it to be viewed under a microscope by nit-pickers like me. | | | Uneven use of period typography; major mistakes occasionally | | | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982, Universal Pictures) In this case the movie is a parody of the film noir genre so the titles are part of the world the film portrays. |
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http://www.ms-studio.com/typecasting.html
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| | Type, Typography and Fonts |
| | This revival called Lapture is a stunning example of a marriage between gothic blackletter and a modern text face... | | | Visit four new font sets, totalling more than 24 individual faces covering history from ancient Mexican relics, through Durer, into Art Deco and through to the '50s -- it's a fun romp with some rather unique twists and turns you don't want to miss... | | | Typography Master Tim Ahrens presents his revival and redesign of "Leipziger Antiqua" by Albert Kapr, Germany, 1971. |
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http://www.graphic-design.com/Type
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| | Type: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly |
| | sitting through an agonizing three-hour critique on why we were all such dismal failures at the art of typography. | | | Type and typography also happens to be the single most powerful tool available in all the communication arts. | | | This piece was originally printed in one of the first issues of DTandG, back in 1990, distributed as a DocMaker file on AOL and Compuserve. |
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http://www.graphic-design.com/Type/Good-bad
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| | Planet typography • Online resources on typefaces and typography |
| | This is a one of the staple, typographic enthusiasts frequent. | | | The content of the Winter issue of the Typographic Times : an interview of the German designer Erik Spiekermann, another one of Ally Palmer who has just finished to redesign Le Monde newspaper, a funny introduction about a MP3 dedicated to typo and finally a short interview of some Adobe managers. | | | © 2006 JCLDB • Planète typographie (French) • ABC Typography • Add Planet to your bookmark |
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http://www.planet-typography.com
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| | InfoDesign: Understanding by Design - News Typography |
| | Usable Type: Typography for the World Wide Web | | | "Typographica is a daily journal of typography featuring news, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design." (Stephen Coles and Joshua Lurie-Terrell) | | | From Lewis Blackwell's 20th-Century Type: "Microsoft has arguably the largest, most expert typographic unit in the world. |
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http://www.informationdesign.org/archives/cat_typography.php
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| | The FontSite |
| | Click the archives to view past feature articles, Style Guides, Production Artist Survival Guides, Rules of Typography and more. | | | Perhaps “guidelines” would be a better word, but there are some things in typography that you really oughta do, as well as some other things you really ought notta do. | | | A regular series written for computer graphic artists, this section demonstrates techniques used by production artists on a daily basis, and includes step-by-step instructions on how to make your job easier. |
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http://www.fontsite.com
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| | Posts tagged with Typography MetaFilter |
| | The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. | | | This site, a work in progress, presents his principles one at a time, and explains how to follow them as a web designer using HTML and CSS. | | | Robert Bringhurt's undisputed bible of typography until now has been limited to print design. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Typography
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| | Type Casting - New York Times |
| | In a world of images, words sometimes don't seem to have as much value as appearances. | | | Like many creative businesses, typography has been radically reshaped by technology. | | | Bello recently won a best new ''display font'' award from the Type Directors Club, and is on pace to sell a respectable 160 licenses in its first year. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/magazine/17CONSUMED.html?ex=1279252800&en=782b49eb8208388a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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| | Advanced Typography class, font course, basics typography is easy at Sessions |
| | In the exercise, you'll make your own music, by designing a pair of music performance posters. | | | Lesson Three explores the expressive aspects of typography, looking at the different ways in which letterform, layout, and color choices can create an abstract, almost musical impact on the reader. | | | You'll explore outstanding examples of typography and test the analogy between type and music. |
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http://www.sessions.edu/syllabus/AdvancedTypography.html
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| | TYPOGRAPHY |
| | While this is not the place for a discussion of language or literature, it is precisely those areas of our culture with which typography is concerned. | | | Although calligraphers are not usually considered typographers, the history of typography must begin with calligraphy for when Gutenberg invented printing from movable type, all his knowledge of character shapes, spelling, page layout, etc, was based on the books available to him which were, of course, hand written by monks and other scribes. | | | Typographers are people who get excited by letters: their shapes and forms, their colour, their power when combined into words, their history and their future. |
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http://www.cbbag.ca/BookArtsWeb/Typography.html
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| | Search creativepro.com |
| | This is when a designer or art director uses a page-layout program as part of the initial design process. | | | WebType, a "non-commercial organisation dedicated to the furthering of the lost art of web typography," has announced an online typography contest...... | | | Macworld UK - Typography is, in general, a subjective affair: we all have our own opinions about what looks good, and what doesn't. |
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http://search.creativepro.com/SearchResults?querytype=any&query=typography&Go.x=13&Go.y=10
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| | Web Typography Tutorial - Day One |
| | This is one of the most basic precepts of typography. | | | Type conveys meaning, both in the obvious sense that words and sentences communicate, and in the subtler sense that the particular visual representation we use — the style, size, and so on — affects the message. | | | Before I knew anything about typography, I thought of it as some kind of high magic, shrouded in arcane terminology and a long, mysterious history. |
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http://www.webmonkey.com/01/45/index3a.html
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| | POST TYPOGRAPHY |
| | Brothers and Sisters, join us in shattering the glass muzzle of Typocracy and renouncing the indentured servitude of the Typocratic regime. | | | We are the children of the Desktop Publishers, and the siblings of the rebel youth who scratched the logo of their favorite band into the cover of their math book. | | | It has been said that the "medium is the message," but your medium is transparent and likewise, your message hollow. |
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http://www.posttypography.com/manifesto.html
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| | Ligature (typography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more letterforms are written or printed as a unit. | | | A ligature is not the only way of changing the appearance on the page. | | | Generally, ligatures replace characters that occur next to each other when they share common components. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(typography)
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| | Typography Concentration: typography training class, font course at Sessions |
| | Students learn how to work from client briefs to create multi-page publications with effective typography, images, illustrations, and layouts, and prepare them for printing. | | | A core focus emphasis is working with established publishing conventions to create engaging and readable editorial designs. | | | Students study innovative movements of the last 20 years, gaining a better ground for working with type. |
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http://www.sessions.edu/programs/concentrations/typography.asp
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| | typography - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about typography |
| | Typography began with the invention of writing and developed as printing spread throughout Europe after the invention of metal moveable type by Johann Gutenberg about 1440. | | | Hundreds of variations have followed since, but the basic design of the Frenchman Nicholas Jensen (about 1420–1480), with a few modifications, is still the ordinary (‘roman’) type used in printing. | | | Typography, for centuries the domain of engravers and printers, is now a computerized process, carried out by using specialist software. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/typography
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| | A List Apart: Articles: Typography Matters |
| | Erin Kissane is a writer and editorial strategist as well as the managing editor of A List Apart. | | | The Graphion Online Type Museum has brief profiles of early typographers and other bits of historical context, and counterspace is chock-full of interactive, useful information about the history and practice of typography. | | | Independent content sites, on the other hand, are particularly appropriate candidates for special attention to typography; the same reasons that apply to big, corporate sites (enhanced readability and clean, professional design) are even more important for small sites whose reputation rests on their content, not their brand name. |
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http://www.alistapart.com/stories/typography
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| | Usability First: Usability Glossary: typography |
| | Type is often selected for its style, mood, rhythm, and legibility. | | | Typographers often specialize in the design of fonts and of logos, but typography plays a role in any context in which text is displayed. | | | Typography plays an important role in usability by affecting the legibility of the text (and thus the speed and comfort of reading), by providing appropriate emphasis, and by establishing the flow of eye movement through written material. |
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http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/main.cgi?function=display_term&term_id=453
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| | Social Design Notes: archives typography page 2 |
| | But it had to use typography to communicate with the people. | | | So the calligraphic version now in the National Archives was finished only on August 2nd, so it really can’t be the version we’re commemorating when we think of the Fourth. |
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http://www.backspace.com/notes/topic/typography
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| | Web Page Design for Designers - Typography |
| | Good typography is just as important on a web page as it is in any other medium. | | | HTML supports horizontal rules which can be used to separate blocks of text on a web page. | | | The fact that it appears on a computer screen and not on a piece of paper is immaterial, it should still be pleasing to look at and easy to read. |
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http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdtypo.htm
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| | Planet typography: logo's story |
| | To work out a reference board or a style guide to group on a single document all the logotype versions (colored, BandW, combined with the monogram, without, etc.). | | | Taking into account the fact that the typogram will sometimes live by himself and sometimes be combined with the monogram. | | | Step 8:...Another must : a Planète typographie font including all the elements of the logotype. |
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http://www.planet-typography.com/news/typo/logo-planet.html
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| | MetaDesign :: About us :: Management :: Bernard Stein |
| | Typography, color, layout and photographic style are just a few of the elements in its visual vocabulary. | | | In 1998 Stein published the typography encyclopedia Typo: When, Who, How with Nicolaus Ott and Friedrich Friedl. | | | It is a great honor for me to help develop the rules of this universal language.” |
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http://www.metadesign.de/html/en/1605.html
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| | Making Maps Easy to Read: Map Typography |
| | This part of the research project consists of a series of experiments on the legibility of type on maps. | | | Eye movement recording demonstrates that this search time depends on two independent factors: the number of names fixated with the eyes and the mean fixation time. | | | Additional experiments on type on maps are reported in the section on Eye Movement Recording. |
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http://richardphillips.org.uk/maps/type.html
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| | a n t e n n a |
| | [#] I really dig people who really dig typography: Typography for Writers | | | [#] UsableType: Web Typography Guide is a great collection of articles on all things typographical for the web, from measurements units in CSS to sIFR. | | | [#] Typo Magazine, published bi-monthly in English and Czech discusses Typography “from different points of view and with connection to other fields such as architecture, photography, social science, and aesthetics.” A recent issue (#13) includes very in-depth articles on word recognition and on-screen legibility. |
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http://www.giantant.com/antenna/archive/cat_typography.php3
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| | master typography on 43 Things |
| | Typography makes or breaks any design and sadly it is the one thing they don’t teach you enough about in school. | | | Nothing makes a design become its own entity with masterfully placed typography. | | | Although it is almost impossible to fully master every aspect I hope to come clost. |
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http://www.43things.com/things/view/2000
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| | Typography - Hypnerotomachia Poliphili |
| | The fact that it survives today after half a millenium as a standard in Western typography makes the Hypnerotomachia one of the most significant contribution of the Renaissance to the history of printing. | | | Adding to its typographical tour de force, the book also contains prototypical |
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/HP/hyptext1.htm
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| | Ellen Lupton: Thinking w/Type |
| | Download my presentation "Make the World Safe for Typography," delivered at the AIGA National Conference, September 15, 2005. |
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http://www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype
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| | TYPOGRAPHY: Legibility |
| | The first thing the reader sees is not the title or other details on the page but the overall pattern and contrast of the page. | | | The regular, repeating patterns established through carefully organized pages of text and graphics help the reader to establish the location and organization of your information and increase legibility. | | | Nothing attracts the eye and brain of the reader like strong contrast and distinctive patterns, and you can achieve those attributes only by carefully designing them into your pages. |
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http://www.webstyleguide.com/type/legible.html
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| | : : Speak Up > Good Typography : : |
| | Similarly, many of us seem to acknowledge when typography is good. | | | But what in the world does it mean to do good typography? | | | In typography lies a big part of designers’ expertise: selecting the appropriate typeface(s) for each project, laying it down accordingly, spacing it evenly, not stretching it horizontally, etc. Ultimately anybody can do any of the above and call it design, so what separates good from bad? |
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http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/001873.html
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| | Rules of Typography: Part VI |
| | The normal space created with the Space Bar is too wide to place before an ellipsis, although it is okay to place a full space after it if it appears at the end of a sentence. | | | The Rules of Typography are reprinted from the book “Digital Type Design Guide” by Sean Cavanaugh (Hayden Books). |
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http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/RulesOfType/ROT0398.html
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| | Preshrunk » Blog Archive » Typography |
| | So here you go, cute indie rock girl whose name I can’t recall… I really hope you dig this geektastic hoodie from the folks at Veer. | | | You’re currently reading “Typography,” an entry on Preshrunk |
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http://preshrunk.info/2005/09/typography.php
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| | Web Typography Tutorial |
| | In the first lesson, Nadav provides a gentle introduction to typography to give you a basic overview of how type works. | | | Nadav has divided this tutorial into two sections. | | | The second lesson examines the challenges specific to using type on Web page: How to make it legible on a computer screen? |
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http://www.webmonkey.com/design/fonts/tutorials/tutorial3.html
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| | May the Type Be With You Typographica |
| | Thus, you get the longevity of a type presentation (the crawl, introductory text, such as it is) with all it’s unsophisticated immediacy. | | | I think I can confidently presume to say that once the original was so popular and became such a noticable, incorporated aspect to the film& theme (Episode IV), that Lucas kept the original with all it’s funkiness and crude typography out of affection for the initial presence. | | | You should keep in mind that film is a dramatic method, not a technical showcase. |
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http://typographi.com/001002.php
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Topic: Typography