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• serifs — ser·if || serɪf n. small line which caps the tops and bottoms of letters in some typefaces (Printing) …   English contemporary dictionary

• Serif — For other uses, see Serif (disambiguation). Sans serif font Serif font …   Wikipedia

• History of Western typography — 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. The basic elements of typography are at least as old as… …   Wikipedia

• Sans-serif — font Serif font …   Wikipedia

• Labeling (map design) — Cartographic labeling is a form of typography and strongly deals with form, style, weight and size of type on a map. Essentially, labeling denotes the correct way to label features (points, arcs, or polygons). Form In type, form describes… …   Wikipedia

• Typeface — Font family redirects here. For the CSS property, see Font family (HTML). For the Marvel Comics antihero, see Typeface (comics). For the documentary film, see Typeface (film). A Specimen, a broadsheet with examples of typefaces and fonts… …   Wikipedia

• Slab serif — In typography, a slab serif (also called mechanistic , square serif or Egyptian ) typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block like serifs. Serif terminals may be either blunt and angular (Rockwell), or rounded (Courier).… …   Wikipedia

• calligraphy — calligrapher, calligraphist, n. calligraphic /kal i graf ik/, calligraphical, adj. calligraphically, adv. /keuh lig reuh fee/, n. 1. fancy penmanship, esp. highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the… …   Universalium

• typography — /tuy pog reuh fee/, n. 1. the art or process of printing with type. 2. the work of setting and arranging types and of printing from them. 3. the general character or appearance of printed matter. [1635 45; < NL typographia, equiv. to Gk týpo(s)… …   Universalium

• Italic type — In typography, italic type /Unicode|ɪˈtælUnicode|ɪk/ or /aUnicode|ɪˈtælUnicode|ɪk/ refers to cursive typefaces based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. The influence from calligraphy can be seen in their usual slight slanting to the… …   Wikipedia

• VOX-ATypI classification — In typography, the Vox ATypI classification makes it possible to classify typefaces in eleven general classes. Devised by Maximilien Vox in 1954, it was adopted in 1962 by the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI). This classification… …   Wikipedia