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Encyclopedia: Typography

Typography is the art and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type. Type glyphs (characters) are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type is the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing) and letter spacing.

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How to say "Typography" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	字体排印学
	(Japanese)	タイポグラフィ
	(German)	Typografie
	(Spanish)	Tipografía
	(French)	Typographie
	(Italian)	Tipografia

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En (typography)

En is a unit of measurement in typography: half of the width of an em...

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Firet

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QuickDraw GX

QuickDraw GX is an extension of QuickDraw introduced with the Macintosh System 7.5. QuickDraw GX Graphics QuickDraw GX Typography TrueType GX QuickDraw GX Printing...

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Ransom note effect

In typography, the ransom note effect is the result of using too many different typefaces in a publication, causing it to look like a ransom note...

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Tombstone (typography)

In typography, the tombstone symbol ∎ is sometimes used to mark the end of a mathematical proof. It is also called a halmos , after its eponym Paul Halmos...

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Italic

Italic means "Of or from Italy"; the usage is most commonly restricted to talking about the people and languages of what is now Italy from the historic period before the Roman Empire. In typography, italic also refers to a means of emphasis; see Emphasis (typography) for details...

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Ligature

The word ligature can mean more than one thing. Its primary sense is of something that ties, binds or constricts. The word can be used in this generic sense or more specifically in certain contexts. In music, see ligature (music) In typography, see ligature (typography) In medicine, see ligature...

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Halmos

Paul Halmos is a noted mathematician. The typographical tombstone symbol sometimes used to mark the end of a mathematical proof is sometimes eponymously called the halmos ; see tombstone (typography...

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Tombstone

Tombstone most commonly means a headstone marking the grave of a deceased person. Other uses: Tombstone, Arizona is a town in Arizona Tombstone (movie) is a 1993 western Tombstone (pizza) is a brand of frozen pizza Tombstone (typography...

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Tracking

Typography In typography, tracking is the process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the space between all glyphs (letters) in a block of text. It is commonly confused with kerning, but these are two separate concepts. Tracking is sometimes called character spacing or letter spacing , especially...

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