February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
14h 34m
English
book
Typography, Referenced
by Jason Tselentis, Allan Haley, Richard Poulin, Tony Seddon, Gerry Leonidas, Ina Saltz, Kathryn Henderson, Tyler Alterman
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Typography Terminology and Language
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Lowercase
The small letters of a typeface. Name
derives from the fact that small letters
were kept in the lower compartments of a
type case when metal type was composed
by hand. Historically, lowercase letters
were known as minuscules.
M
Majuscule
See Uppercase
Minuscule
See Lowercase
Modern
A typeface style, developed in the late
eighteenth century (10) and used
throughout much of the nineteenth
century (12), characterized by extreme
contrast (230) between t ...
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