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Today: #3 // S - Z.
Read and enjoy And maybe even learn something
Serif
Is a characteristic of a typeface. It is a style element added to the end of strokes on a typeface. It is characteristic for Roman typefaces.
Serif fonts on a copy text are easier to read in print publications than other fonts.
Sans-Serif
Is a typeface without Serifs, Sans being french for without. Sans-Serif typefaces can be referred to as Grotesque or Gothic typefaces.
Sans-Serif fonts ona copy text are easier to read on online publications, because Serif fonts would blur too much when reading long paragraphs.
Specimen
A sample sheet of a font can be called Specimen. It shows the glyphs contained in a font and different style of the typeface. Often a Pangram is included to show the range of a typeface. Fontdesigners create Specimen when publishing new typefaces.
Swash
Is an exaggerated Serif. It usually appears on script fonts, but can be a single style, additonaly to Italic, on a typeface. Well known for Swashes is the typeface Zapfino.
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Typeface
A Typeface is the synoptical term for a set of fonts in different sizes and styles. Nowadays Font has become a synonyme for it.
For example: Helvetica is a typeface, Helvetica Bold 12pt is a font.
Typesetting
The composition of metal types or sorts to form a mirrored version of a page, used in printing. Before digital layouting became possible, every newspaper or magazine had to be made arranging metal types in a forme.
Univers
Is a sans-serif typeace designed by Adrian Frutiger in1954. It is closely related to Helvetica, both coming from Switzerland and being used in modern typography. Univers uses numbers to indicate different styles of the typeface, currently consisting of 44 styles.
Vignette
A decorative element to seperate chapters or paragraphs in books or to decorate borders and corners.
Replacing words or single letters by a symbol is also a Vignette, as done i "L♥VE" or "I ♥NY".
Web-safe Fonts
When creating a website it is good to know, what fonts are best to use. Not every browser supports all fonts and not very computer has every font installed. However there are some fonts that were created especially for web use and are avaiable on most systems (Windows, Mac & LInux). A simple rule is: the more systems have the font installed by default, the safer it is to use. It's all about statisitics.
The most common fonts are: Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet, Tahoma & Times New Roman.. More fonts that are usually usable are: Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, monospace, Georgia, Impact, Lucida Console & Lucida Sans Console.
Widows & Orphans
Are terms used in Typesetting.
A widow is a line in a paragraph, that only consists of one word. Typesetters justify paragraphs in order to avoid Widows, as it is seen as an aesthetical mistake.
An Orphan is the first or last line of a paragraph, that stands alone on a page, with the rest of the paragraph either appearing on the page before or the next page.
x-height
x-height a term used to describe typefaces. It refers to the height of the letter x in a typeace. It has the same height as the letters u, v, w, & z. a, c, e, m, n, o, r and s are higher than the x-height, they overshoot, which is a visual compensation regarding the roundness of the letters.
If a letter is higher than the x-height, the part above is called Ascender; letters with parts below are called Descenders.
Y(ellow)
Y, as used in CMYK, is the shortform of the color Yellow used in printing. Yellow is one of the 3 colors (Cyan, Magenta & Yellow; plus Black) that is used for printing. In order to print pages, each color is on a seperate layer or forme so the piece of paper that is printed on ahs to go through 4 pressings.
In order to get a better result in the color Black, you don't use K=100%, but a mixture of all 4 colors. This results in a stronger and more saturated print result for black.
Zero
The use of Zero has been both a philosophical and mathematical matter in history. Even in ages BC a term to be "nothing" when working with numbers has been used in Persia, China or India. It cannot be said with certainty who "invented" Zero, It has been seen as an arabic invention in Europe due to the fact that is was first brought there by Spanish Muslims (Moors) aside astronomy and other persian/arabic inventions.
The italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, more famous as Fibonacci, was the first western scholar to introduce the Zero and the 9 other numbers in the 13th century. Before that time, the roman counting system (I II III V X C M) was used alone.
Today: #3 // S - Z.
Read and enjoy And maybe even learn something
S
Serif
Is a characteristic of a typeface. It is a style element added to the end of strokes on a typeface. It is characteristic for Roman typefaces.
Serif fonts on a copy text are easier to read in print publications than other fonts.
Sans-Serif
Is a typeface without Serifs, Sans being french for without. Sans-Serif typefaces can be referred to as Grotesque or Gothic typefaces.
Sans-Serif fonts ona copy text are easier to read on online publications, because Serif fonts would blur too much when reading long paragraphs.
Specimen
A sample sheet of a font can be called Specimen. It shows the glyphs contained in a font and different style of the typeface. Often a Pangram is included to show the range of a typeface. Fontdesigners create Specimen when publishing new typefaces.
Swash
Is an exaggerated Serif. It usually appears on script fonts, but can be a single style, additonaly to Italic, on a typeface. Well known for Swashes is the typeface Zapfino.
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T
Typeface
A Typeface is the synoptical term for a set of fonts in different sizes and styles. Nowadays Font has become a synonyme for it.
For example: Helvetica is a typeface, Helvetica Bold 12pt is a font.
Typesetting
The composition of metal types or sorts to form a mirrored version of a page, used in printing. Before digital layouting became possible, every newspaper or magazine had to be made arranging metal types in a forme.
U
Univers
Is a sans-serif typeace designed by Adrian Frutiger in1954. It is closely related to Helvetica, both coming from Switzerland and being used in modern typography. Univers uses numbers to indicate different styles of the typeface, currently consisting of 44 styles.
V
Vignette
A decorative element to seperate chapters or paragraphs in books or to decorate borders and corners.
Replacing words or single letters by a symbol is also a Vignette, as done i "L♥VE" or "I ♥NY".
W
Web-safe Fonts
When creating a website it is good to know, what fonts are best to use. Not every browser supports all fonts and not very computer has every font installed. However there are some fonts that were created especially for web use and are avaiable on most systems (Windows, Mac & LInux). A simple rule is: the more systems have the font installed by default, the safer it is to use. It's all about statisitics.
The most common fonts are: Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet, Tahoma & Times New Roman.. More fonts that are usually usable are: Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, monospace, Georgia, Impact, Lucida Console & Lucida Sans Console.
Widows & Orphans
Are terms used in Typesetting.
A widow is a line in a paragraph, that only consists of one word. Typesetters justify paragraphs in order to avoid Widows, as it is seen as an aesthetical mistake.
An Orphan is the first or last line of a paragraph, that stands alone on a page, with the rest of the paragraph either appearing on the page before or the next page.
X
x-height
x-height a term used to describe typefaces. It refers to the height of the letter x in a typeace. It has the same height as the letters u, v, w, & z. a, c, e, m, n, o, r and s are higher than the x-height, they overshoot, which is a visual compensation regarding the roundness of the letters.
If a letter is higher than the x-height, the part above is called Ascender; letters with parts below are called Descenders.
Y
Y(ellow)
Y, as used in CMYK, is the shortform of the color Yellow used in printing. Yellow is one of the 3 colors (Cyan, Magenta & Yellow; plus Black) that is used for printing. In order to print pages, each color is on a seperate layer or forme so the piece of paper that is printed on ahs to go through 4 pressings.
In order to get a better result in the color Black, you don't use K=100%, but a mixture of all 4 colors. This results in a stronger and more saturated print result for black.
Z
Zero
The use of Zero has been both a philosophical and mathematical matter in history. Even in ages BC a term to be "nothing" when working with numbers has been used in Persia, China or India. It cannot be said with certainty who "invented" Zero, It has been seen as an arabic invention in Europe due to the fact that is was first brought there by Spanish Muslims (Moors) aside astronomy and other persian/arabic inventions.
The italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, more famous as Fibonacci, was the first western scholar to introduce the Zero and the 9 other numbers in the 13th century. Before that time, the roman counting system (I II III V X C M) was used alone.
What happened?!
Holy fucking shit I have not been here in a while.
Just saw on twitter a new theme was out and naturally I got curious.
Turns out in February I got a spike in pageviews, starting Feb 17th until Feb 27th, with hovering just around 1K a day and then from 1.200 on 27th to 63 on 28th
So yeah, no idea what happened, I did not get a DD for a deviation that's more than 2 years old, that I can figure out.
Also I had to delete 1K mentions, because roughly 900 of them were the same person using on a daily basis to wish people a happy birthday.
If anyone can explain this, please do, or I will forever not know.
That said, what else happened? Not
Lots of freebies on my (new) blog!
In an attempt to make the most stressful holiday of the year even more stressful I decided to have a big freebie event at my blog. Every day until the 24th I will be posting new free items for everyone to download.
Check out my blog to learn about the freebies!
Today is a special day, it is December 6th and St. Nikolaus day, so the freebie today is especially big. It contains samples from previous products I released, some new items and some old items that are available for free already.
Here's a link to the post with the big freebie!
The entire website is actually new and fresh with the blog and it's homepage. It contains all the big way
About that Kiriban... and other things first.
The Sunday through to Saturday feature is postponed for next week. I have not had the energy to focus on it this weekend. I don't want to go into detail, I think you are all aware of the horrible things that have happened in this world in the last week, and I am not one to virtue signal. Most of the time I am torn between lost for words and anger.
Meanwhile I am working on a few commissions, so at least I can get busy with that. I want to open up more in the future, as mentioned in the previous journal.
Speaking of the previous journal.
After a long deliberation I decided to not give out the points.
Why?
Because someone manipulated my pa
Kiriban caught!
I think it's time for a personal journal!
You didn't see that one coming, did you?
Obviously now that I decided to write this journal I forgot what I wanted to say.
Oh, right!
Kiriban at 333.333 pageviews!
It is about 2000 views away, which is about 20 days judging from my daily pageviews, so I suppose I will reach it end of July or early August.
If you reach it, take a screenshot and note me with it.
Actually even if you don't hit it exactly, I am probably letting win whoever came the closest.
Wait, win?
Yeah, you can win something. I've collected quite a few of points that I cannot transfer to Paypal, so I thought I should share them
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