Goal

This goal of this read­ing is to review intro­duc­tory typog­ra­phy ter­mi­nol­ogy in writ­ten and visual form.

Assignment

• Bringhurst: For­ward; Chap­ter 3–6, p 45–117; Appen­dix E, p 319–326
• Kane: Words and Phrases — Text, p 64–113

Vocabulary

• Point size/leading type­face font (10÷13.5 Bembo italic)
• Align­ment
• Cen­tered
• Con­trast
• Cross Align­ment
• Dou­ble prime
• Exdent
• Flush Left/Right
• Head­line (heads)
• Hier­ar­chy
• Hyphen­ation
• Indent
• Jus­ti­fi­ca­tion
• Jus­ti­fied
• Kern­ing
• Lead­ing
• Leg­i­bil­ity
• Let­terspac­ing
• Line­spacing
• Mea­sure
• Opti­cal Adjustment
• Orna­ments
• Orphan
• Panel
• Para­graph
• Prime
• Print­ers Quotes
• Ranged Left/Right
• Read­abil­ity
• Spec­i­men Book
• Track­ing (loose, nor­mal, tight)
• Widow

• Anal­pha­betic symbols
• Dia­crit­ics
• Drop Cap
• Ellipses
• Em/En dash
• Fleu­rons
• Head­ing
• Hyphen
• Lig­a­tures
• Numer­als
• Paren­the­ses
• Prime/Double Prime
• Quo­ta­tion marks
• Sloped Roman
• Small Caps
• Solidus
• Sub­head
• Super­script
• Titling
• Ver­sal
• Vir­gule

Bibliography

Bringhurst, Robert; The Ele­ments of Typo­graphic Style; Hart­ley and Marks Pub­lish­ers; Third edi­tion, 2004. ISBN-10: 0881792063, ISBN-13: 978–0881792065

Kane, John; A Type Primer; Pren­tice Hall; 2003. ISBN-10: 013099071X, ISBN-13: 9780130990716