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2. Typography - Wikipedia

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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 involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line spacing, letter spacing, and spaces between pairs of letters. [1] The term typography is also applied to the style, arrangement, and ...

3. Typeface - Wikipedia

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   A Specimen, a broadsheet with examples of typefaces and fonts available.Printed by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopædia.. A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display.

4. Type design - Wikipedia

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   Type design is the art and process of designing typefaces. This involves drawing each letterform using a consistent style. The basic concepts and design variables are described below. A typeface differs from other modes of graphic production such as handwriting and drawing in that it is a fixed set of alphanumeric characters with specific ...

5. Typeface anatomy - Wikipedia

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   Anatomy of a Devanagari typeface. Typeface anatomy describes the graphic elements that make up letters in a typeface. [1] [2] Typefaces are born from the struggle between rules and results. Squeezing a square about 1% helps it look more like a square; to appear the same height as a square, a circle must be measurably taller.

6. Helvetica - Wikipedia

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   Helvetica, also known by its original name Neue Haas Grotesk, is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann. Helvetica is a neo-grotesque design, one influenced by the famous 19th-century (1890s) typeface Akzidenz-Grotesk and other German and Swiss designs. [2]

7. Letterform - Wikipedia

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   A letterform, letter-form or letter form, is a term used especially in typography, palaeography, calligraphy and epigraphy to mean a letter's shape. A letterform is a type of glyph, which is a specific, concrete way of writing an abstract character or grapheme . For example, medieval scholars may discuss the particular handwritten letterforms ...