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Typography
Typography is the art of text through the arrangement and appearance of the type with or without surrounding content. It encompasses all aspects of letter design and application and is used by a variety of media and medium. Typography generally follows four principles - repetition, contrast, proximity, and alignment.
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What is the typography of land?
The typography of land refers to the physical features and characteristics of the Earth's surface, such as mountains, valleys, plains, and bodies of water. It includes the study of landforms, soil types, elevation, and other natural geographical attributes that make up the landscape.
Rosemary Sassoon has been a designer for many years mainly concerned with letterforms. Additionally she specialised in the educational and medical aspects of handwriting. After discovering that no one had found out what kind of letterforms children found easiest to read, she spent two years researching the subject before designing the original Sassoon Primary typeface. Since 1987, in partnership with Adrian Williams a whole range of font products for reading and handwriting education in schools has been developed, suitable for representing hand written letterforms. Now they are used worldwide for both the teaching of reading and handwriting.
(http://www.clubtype.co.UK/fonts/sas/sassoonfonts.HTML)
How do you change font color in an accent document?
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What font should be used for websites?
When designing websites, the choice of fonts is very limited - remember that the website will be viewed on many different computers, so it's difficult to predict what fonts will actually be available. When a website requests a font that isn't present on the target machine, the browser will try and pick a similar font. Unsurprisingly, this doesn't always work in an ideal way. The two fonts you can pretty much guarantee to find on virtually all machines are a Times Roman (Times New Roman on Windows); Times is a serif font, often used for newspapers as it allows a high number of characters per inch - saving paper. The other common font is Aerial - a sans serif font; the font used by wikianswers. Which to use is a matter of taste, personally I prefer Aerial.
Where to download Calibri font?
GO TO DAFONT.COM
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Downloading the PowerPoint Viewer 2007 will install it in your system. It will give you all six new Vista TrueType fonts, including calibri.
- Bolaris Interactive
It is very hard to do that.
Font size is specified in points, as we all know, but it's measured from the top of the tallest capital letters to the bottom of the descenders.
Basically, type the letters A and p, draw a line across the top of the A and the bottom of the stem on the p, and measure between them. That's the font size. This means if you have two fonts and one of them has longer descenders than the other, 100-point type in the first face and 100-point type in the second will be very different-size type.
If you need some type that's an exact height...oh, letters three inches high to put on the sides of a boat or something...start by drawing two horizontal lines three inches apart. Put the baseline of the type on the bottom line, then start increasing the type size until the top of the letters touch the top line.
What is the common history of typefaces?
I am answering this question based on Roman characters which are phonetic based characters rather than logograms, because typography extends to languages like Chinese, Japanese and Hindi as well.
There is no definite answer I suppose because type and language evolved drastically since The Sumerians and Egyptians were communicating through cave drawings and markings. In my opinion, The phonogram based Phoenician alphabet of twenty-two characters probably has a large influence on the evolution of Roman characters since Phoenicia (present Lebanon and Syria) was an important region of trade. The language and writing was adopted by travelling merchants which helped to spread the use. The other two alphabet system I can think of would be Greek and Semitic simply because of the dominance of their civilization. Greek which came from Greece and we all know about Alexander the Great and the amount of land he conquered and Semitic which is of Middle Eastern origin.
OpenType is a new format over the earlier TrueType and PostScript Type 1 formats for fonts. As described by Microsoft and Adobe, it is technically an extension of Microsoft's TrueType Open format, which contains either PostScript or TrueType font outlines in a single font file used on both Windows and Mac. It also includes an expanded character set based on the Unicode encoding standard as well as advanced typographic intelligences for glyph positioning and glyph substitution that allows the inclusion of numerous alternatives glyphs in a single font file.
A glyph is a shape in a font that is used to represent a character code on screen - or on paper, if printed. One common example of a glyph is an actual letter. The symbols and shapes in other typefaces such as Zapf Dingbats are also glyphs, though. Letters are actually only shapes, but we see them as letters because that's how we associate them.
What is the classification of the typeface Warnock Pro?
According to the Adobe foundry, this font - began in early 1997 by Adobe Type Designer, Robert Slimbach for the Adobe Systems co-founder, John Warnock - "defies any historical classification." The serif style which is unbracketed and triangular, give it a chiseled appearance, often associated with Latine typefaces, but the classical letter proportions are associated with old style types. The shape and stress of the round elements are "reminiscent of transitional types" (neither calligraphic or geometric).
According to Slimbach, "I set out to make a family that embodies both John's character and that of Adobe by giving the letterforms a progressive and slightly technical feel, but with warmth and humanity. I wanted to make a type family that looks to the past as well
as to the future."
If I had to classify it, I would simply call it transitional.
For more information, download the font specimen at www.adobe.com/type/browser/pdfs/WarnockPro.pdf
Who created the typeface Silentium Pro and when?
Jovica Veljović - born 1. 3. 1954 in Suvi Do, Yugoslavia - type designer, typographer, graphic designer, teacher.
1974-79: studies lettering and graphic design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, with a period of research studies from 1981-83. 1987-92: teaches typography at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. 1992: is made professor of type design and typography at the Department Design of the Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, Fakultät Design/Medien/Information.
He has won various awards for his work in calligraphy and typography, including the Association Typographiques Internationale (ATypI) Charles Peignot Prize (1985) and prizes at the XX October Salon in Belgrade (1979). the "ZGRAF5" international graphic design exhibition in Zagreb (1987), the XIII Biennale for Graphic-Design in Brno (1988) and the Graphics Biennale in Moscow (1996).
Fonts: ITC Veljovic® (1984), ITC Esprit® (1985), ITC Gamma® (1986), Ex Ponto® multiple master typeface (1995), Silentium™ (2000), Sava™ (2003), Libelle™ (2009), Veljovic Script™ (2009), and ITC New Esprit® (2010).
What was the design process for the typeface Myriad Pro?
In 1992, Myriad had a whole design team that which initially included Fred Brady, Robert Slimbach, Sumner Stone, and Carol Twombly from Adobe. These folks examined sxisting sans serif designs and made preliminary pencil drawings, computer sketches, and a variety of test fonts to determine which direction to design Myriad. A collaborative approach ensured that the Myriad family maintained a clear, objective quality, without idiosyncrasies that might be introduced had only one designer worked on designing the font.
Drawing, digitization, and design work was split between Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly. It was completed in two years. Each designer was responsibly for different designs in the roman and italic fonts; then they exchanged work during final production stages to unify the Myriad family. As the project progessed, Fred Brady, Robert Slimbach, and Carol Twombly met for weekly discussions, examinations, and evaluations for Myriad as it evolved through the design process. In the later stages of design development, members of the Adobe Type Advisory board reviewed Myriad.
For the additional glyphs in the typeface Myriad Pro, work was also divided up among a small group that included Fred Brady, Christopher Slye, Robert Slimbach, and Carol Twombly. Greek and Cyrillic characters were then added to the family as well as a bunch of Latin glyphs and accented characters.
What are the characteristics of the typeface Myriad Pro?
Myriad Pro is a font that is part of the Myriad family. It differs from the Sans Serif family in that it has a very distinct slanting 'e' and tail on the 'y'.
What is a ligature in typography?
A ligature is two or more letters that are tied together into a single letter. For instance, in some typefaces, certain character combinations like fi and fl overlap, resulting in an unsightly shape. The fi and fl ligatures were designed to improve the appearance of the letters.
Em space is a relative unit of measurement used in typography. Once the size of an em is established, the size every other character and other typographic units of measurement can be determined as a fraction of em. The reason why em is used is because the letter "m" is the only letter that has relatively the same width in its capital and lowercase form. There is also something called en space. En is usually about half the width of an em so if the em space is 12 points, the en space is usually about 6 points.
An en (N) space is a common unit of measurement used in typography. Traditionally, it is defined as the width of the uppercase N used in the current typeface and point size. However, it is more properly defined as half the width of an em.
What is the second widest letter?
In the majority of fonts, this is either the capital W or capital M.
Historically M is the widest making W usually the second widest, but in popular fonts like Arial, W is the widest and M is the second widest.
Use adobe illustrator to design the font and use the program type tool to assign the letters to the keys.
