Typography
Typography
Typography (pronounced: /tʌɪˈpɒɡrəfi/) 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 (leading), and letter-spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning).
Etymology
The word "typography" in English comes from the Greek words τύπος typos "type" and -γραφία -graphia "writing".
Related Terms
- Typeface: A set of one or more fonts, in one or more sizes, designed with stylistic unity, each comprising a coordinated set of glyphs.
- Font: A particular size, weight and style of a typeface.
- Leading: The distance between the baselines of successive lines of type, traditionally measured in points.
- Kerning: The process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font.
- Tracking: Adjusting the spacing uniformly over a range of characters.
- Glyph: An elemental symbol within an agreed set of symbols, intended to represent a readable character for the purposes of writing and thereby expressing thoughts, ideas and concepts.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Typography
- Wikipedia's article - Typography
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