Typography

In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest unit of a writing system of any given language.

Gælic type (sometimes called Irish character, Irish type, or Gælic script) is a family of insular typefaces devised, for printing Irish.

Didone is a genre of serif typeface that emerged in the late 18th century and is particularly popular in Europe.

Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) is an open source JavaScript and Adobe Flash dynamic web fonts implementation, enabling the replacement of text elements on HTML web pages with Flash equivalents.

Electrotyping (also galvanoplasty) is a chemical method for forming metal parts that exactly reproduce a model.

Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface.

Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4°) is a book or pamphlet produced from full 'blanksheets', each of which is printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves (that is, eight book pages).

In typesetting, widows and orphans are lines at the beginning or end of a paragraph, which are left dangling at the top or bottom of a column, separated from the rest of the paragraph.

In typography, kerning (less commonly mortising) is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result.

In typography, ALL CAPS (short for "all capitals" or "all capitalized") refers to text or a font in which all letters are capital letters.

Capital sharp s (ẞ) is the constructed "majuscule" of eszett (also called sharp s).

The dash is a punctuation mark that is similar to a hyphen or minus sign, but differs from both of these symbols primarily in length and function.

iBooks Author (iBA) is an e-book authoring application by Apple Inc.

Movable type (British English 'Moveable Type') is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual letters or punctuation) usually on the medium of paper which was first invented in ancient China.

A reverse-contrast letterform is a typeface or custom lettering in which the stress is reversed from the norm: instead of the vertical lines being the same width or thicker than horizontals, which is normal in Latin-alphabet writing and especially printing, the horizontal lines are the thickest.

The long, medial, or descending s (ſ) is a form of the minuscule (lower-case) letter s, which was formerly used where s occurred in the middle or at the beginning of a word (e.g. "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "ſucceſsful" for "successful").

Baseline magazine (ISSN 0954-9226) is a magazine devoted to typography, book arts and graphic design (not to be confused with the information technology magazine of the same name that is published by QuinStreet).

Teaching to See is a 2012 educational documentary film about graphic design and teaching of Inge Druckrey and some of her students and colleagues.

Technical lettering is the process of forming letters, numerals, and other characters in technical drawing.

Typeface is an independent documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, about visual culture, technology and graphic design, centered on the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

For a printed medium (such as paper), a typographic approximation is a replacement (approximation) of some element of the writing system (usually, a glyph) with some else glyph(s), such as a nearly homographic character, digraph or character string.

Adobe Systems’ division of typography is an innovator in font technology and design, Adobe was a forerunner in the development of PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 font formats and OpenType technology, as well as being an established digital type foundry.

Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language.

Contemporary typographers view typography as craft with a very long history tracing its origins back to the first punches and dies used to make seals and currency in ancient times.

In typography, a thin space is a space character that is usually  1⁄5 or  1⁄6 of an em in width.

The Klingspor-Museum is a museum in Offenbach, Germany, specializing in the art of modern book production, typography and type.

Adscript (from Latin ad, on or to, and scribere, to write) means something written after, as opposed to subscript which means written under.

The Type Directors Club (also known as the TDC) is an international organization for those devoted to excellence in typography in all its forms.

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts is a nonfiction book by Simon Garfield, a British journalist and non-fiction author.

Bitstream Font Fusion is a small, fast, object-oriented font engine written in ANSI C capable of rendering high-quality text on any platform, any device, and at any resolution.

Gastrotypographicalassemblage is a 35 feet (11 m) wide by 8.

FontShop International is an international manufacturer of digital typefaces (fonts), based in Berlin.

Font Awesome is a font and icon toolkit based on CSS and LESS.

In typography, line length is the width of a block of typeset text, usually measured in units of length like inches or points or in characters per line.

Open Font Library is a project devoted to the hosting and encouraged creation of fonts released under Free Licenses.

Switzerland's Schule für Gestaltung Basel (Basel School of Design) at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule and its students have influenced the international graphic design community since it opened in 1968.

Microprinting is the production of recognizable patterns or characters on a printed medium at a scale which requires magnification to be read.

Siavash Fani (born December 6, 1977, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Canadian graphic designer.

American Type Founders (ATF) was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States.

In orthography and typography, letter case (or just case) is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper case (also uppercase, capital letters, capitals, caps, large letters, or more formally majuscule [see ]) and smaller lower case (also lowercase, small letters, or more formally minuscule [see ]) in the written representation of certain languages.

A writing system is any conventional method of visually representing verbal communication.

A subscript or superscript is a number, figure, symbol, or indicator that is smaller than their normal line of type and is set slightly below or above it.

Capitalization, or capitalisation, is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (upper-case letter) and the remaining letters in lower case in writing systems with a case distinction.

The International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) is a professional body run by and for typographers, graphic designers, and educators.