Comments on: I love typography http://techwhimsy.com/i-love-typography Where tech is more than just the breaking news Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:37:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mal damkar http://techwhimsy.com/i-love-typography/comment-page-1#comment-8806 Mal damkar Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:21:55 +0000 http://techwhimsy.com/?p=218#comment-8806 OK here's my quicky typo lesson. Kerning is the space between letters because fonts now unlike typewriters take up different amounts of space (non-proportional) - one needs to occasionally adjust the space between letters to create an even 'colour' ie that words look like words rather than having stange spaces between letters making it seem there is two words when there should only be one. White space is important to give the readers eye time to rest - the art of typography and design is to guide the eye around the page as it is meant to be read - an order of importance if you will. Sorry its not 1500 words. but hope its a help to start. Leading, is called this because in traditional hot metal days lines of lead were used between the rows of type. Ascenders are any vertical lines of the font above the x-height - which is the top of all lowercase letters like c a o u m etc. Descenders are the lines below the baseline. the line on which all the type in a row sit on. OK here’s my quicky typo lesson.

Kerning is the space between letters because fonts now unlike typewriters take up different amounts of space (non-proportional) – one needs to occasionally adjust the space between letters to create an even ‘colour’ ie that words look like words rather than having stange spaces between letters making it seem there is two words when there should only be one.

White space is important to give the readers eye time to rest – the art of typography and design is to guide the eye around the page as it is meant to be read – an order of importance if you will.

Sorry its not 1500 words. but hope its a help to start.

Leading, is called this because in traditional hot metal days lines of lead were used between the rows of type.

Ascenders are any vertical lines of the font above the x-height – which is the top of all lowercase letters like c a o u m etc.

Descenders are the lines below the baseline. the line on which all the type in a row sit on.

]]> By: dave http://techwhimsy.com/i-love-typography/comment-page-1#comment-6346 dave Tue, 19 May 2009 12:06:10 +0000 http://techwhimsy.com/?p=218#comment-6346 most useful and informative thing i've read on typography lately was the W3C CSS2 spec. I'm sure the CSS3 spec is just as enlightening. as it's rather late, i'm going to be very un-interweb and not provide a useful link for people to follow to save them looking it up manually. ha.. i just coined a new phrase in my head. anti-semant. I'm sure somebody has used it before but it feels neat to come up with it independently of having read it somewhere like here. most useful and informative thing i’ve read on typography lately was the W3C CSS2 spec. I’m sure the CSS3 spec is just as enlightening. as it’s rather late, i’m going to be very un-interweb and not provide a useful link for people to follow to save them looking it up manually. ha.. i just coined a new phrase in my head. anti-semant. I’m sure somebody has used it before but it feels neat to come up with it independently of having read it somewhere like here.

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