Questions tagged [typography]
Questions about the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. Text is composed to create a readable, coherent, and visually satisfying whole.
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How to quickly generate rectangles in place of text
It's pretty common nowadays—especially for UI mockups—to replace insignificant text with subdued rectangles. See example below.
Does anyone have a really simple way of creating those—especially in a ...
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80s typography book with red apple on the cover
I am looking for a book from the eighties (or potentially older), a sort of font catalog. It was white, large format (approximately A4), and had a picture of a red apple on the cover.
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Keeping text vertical alignement between two columns
I have a main text spread across two columns. In this text I have a quotation block, with a different paragraph style (lower font size, indentation). This quotation block starts at the bottom of the ...
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ELLE Logo Designer
Does anyone know who designed the ELLE magazine logo?
I have tried researching the original designer but can’t find the designer / artist who created the logo.
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What is the name for this kind of vertical separator?
What is the name of this kind of vertical separator between sections? I've seen it somewhere but can't remember where or what it's called. It's likely a specific type of printer's ornament, however I ...
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Leading space/padding in sans-serif fonts
Notice the small space before the letter L in the first two lines in the following image.
It's more notable the larger the font size, but it's there in the second line too. The fonts in this example ...
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Trying to figure what typeface / font this is
Here is a character table I hand-assembled from a book that was published in 1954. I'm trying to figure what font this was typeset in. The scan I have is of very low quality but it is good enough to ...
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Which font is used in this 'Google Fonts' image?
The typeface is the following:
Which is being used in an image within an article in Google Fonts: Emotive considerations for choosing typefaces
It's from the first image that appears in the article:
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Creating an image using typography
I have an assignment where I need to create an image only using typography yet and I think it is similar to Ascii Art, am I correct? Or what is this type of design called?
Thank you
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how to calculate font ascenders and descenders in Adobe Photoshop?
I am trying to position text at the top-left corner of a canvas in Adobe Photoshop by setting its x and y coordinates to 0. However, due to the font's ascenders, the text is not aligned to the top-...
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Advantages of non-white background in typography
Financial Times website has a non-white background, namely, 255,240,229 in sRGB. However, the text is not black: 50,48,46 (the title is black).
Are there any advantages of such color scheme for web ...
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Opentype features in Microsoft Word
I'm keen to use an Opentype font in Word that has a "swash" feature. However, the swash feature isn't under a numbered stylistic set (see below). Can someone help me select it in Word? All I ...
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Should Arabic fonts be upscaled to account for diacratics
Arabic fonts tend to appear smaller than Latin fonts because of the vertical space taken up by diacratics. This is especially noticeable when typesetting the Quran, which has much more of these than ...
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What elements of this design make it look better than mine?
I made this design for practice, a simple popup warning someone of something:
Immediately, I could tell there was something wrong with it, but I couldn't quite place my finger on what. I shared this ...
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How can I make this typo effect
want to make a work with distortion in photoshop or illustrator.
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What is this design called? (Cramming words into an area with some words bigger than others)
What is this design called? (Cramming words into an area with some words bigger than others)
Are there tools to create this on the fly eg. Wordpress plugin. Picture is just an example I found on ...
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Superscript text in GIMP
How can I add superscript text to text in GIMP? I am looking for other solutions than adding another textbox with just smaller font size...
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What percentage of page does/should a text occupy “inkwise”
I am interested what is the total area of a book page that is occupied by text.
Basically, how much ink do I need to spend to print a page with text.
I have experimented with different fonts like ...
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Creative solution for Headings that sometimes have numbers and sometimes don't
While setting headings for a book I ran into a typesetting issue where I would love to get some hints and different point of views from the creative folks out there.
I am setting a "book" ...
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How would I make this "ascending" text in photoshop?
The big letters "Allison and Judah" are angled and seemingly ascending. Is this just a simple distort? Does this style have a name? I can't seem to find exactly how to replicate this myself ...
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Convert characters with combining diacritics to pre-composed characters
I had a large amount of Greek with an audio file of people reading it. I broke both up into phrases to save as pronunciation guides. Unfortunately, the text used combining diacritics, and the audio ...
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InDesign How does optical margin alignment really work?
One thing I don't understand (which would definitely help me to use this function better) is how exactly optical margin alignment really works and what exactly is measured in pt, or when to set what. ...
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What makes this typography good looking?
I'm making this poster:
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Even though I find it's quite a good design, my lack of formal education in graphic design makes me unable to explain why it is a good one. Especially on the text. ...
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Resources on how to create good typographic systems?
There is a lot written about how to use a typographic scale, but not so much about creating typographic systems that not only follow a scale but also explore other ways to create hierarchy and ...
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How to handle spaces when increasing letterspacing between capital letters?
I asked a similar question on the LaTeX stack exchange and they suggested that I come here.
Many typographers such as Matthew Butterick and R. Schlicht recommend using increased letterspacing between ...
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What small caps and text figures go well with Times New Roman?
I'm reading Robert Bringhurst's excellent book The Elements of Typographic Style. He says that when Times New Roman is all you've got you should make the most of its limited virtues but that adding ...
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Type on a Path Not Working
I'm trying to use the type on a path tool, and I've never had this problem before. I'm using the rainbow option as usual, but it is typing within the path not on top of it, and sideways. The other ...
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Introduce paragraphs with a term and colon
Particularly in students papers, I often see the that they start a paragraph, which may be quite lengthy, with a specific term followed by a colon.
I believe this is just very comfortable for the ...
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How to mimic string/thread art with vectors in illustrator?
I'm designing a wall mural for an office and have to do an illustrator mock up of a string art wall similar to this:
Does anyone know how to achieve a similar effect? I tried searching all kinds of ...
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Typesetting ij/ij in Dutch: vrijgeven or vrijgeven?
Continuing Typesetting in Dutch: Dijkstra vs. Dijkstra, how do you typeset the Dutch word for release:
vrijgeven (with two separate glyphs i and j) or
vrijgeven (with a ligature ij)?
Do i and j in ...
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Can someone indentify this font, please?
So, I've been looking this font everywhere on the internet as I can, like WhatTheFont, Font Finder, Google Lens, but I can't find anything, not even close to it.
Can someone please indentify it?
It's ...
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Looking for a font to imitate dementia / dyslexia
I'm trying to produce an image from the point of view of a person with dementia who can no longer make sense of signage. The feeling is that the forms are very familiar, but don't come together as ...
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Does somebody know the typeface BREAD AND BUTTER Type that the Life Magazine used?
The font for the headlines and the “bread-and-butter type”… it would be awesome, if there's somebody, some design historian expert who knows it.
Here's a (bad) PDF to look at: Page 10 for example.
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How to achieve this glitch text effect in Adobe Photoshop?
I have been searching for how can I create a similar effect to this. I found that it is known as the glitch effect and could only be achieved by using a scanner, and since I don't have a scanner, I ...
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What's the rectangle surrounding a font glyph, including its sidebearings, called?
What's the rectangle surrounding a font glyph, including its sidebearings, called? I Googled the words "bounding box" and got conflicting results, where some sources say it's the rectangle ...
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How to make rectangle (or any shape) to automatically resized according to texts in Photoshop?
Like I want to put a text inside a rectangle, but the text is subject to change, it can be shorter or longer. Manually, I have to adjust the rectangle size to fit the text every time there are any ...
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Footnote style using asterisk should have space or no space between symbol and note?
When referencing a footnote using an asterisk or other acceptable symbols such as dagger and double dagger, in the footnote itself do you put a space between the symbol and the note?
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Is there a name for this form of 19th-century (?) table of contents design?
I've been remembering and inspired by an old style of table of contents/chapter summaries where a list of short sentences or phrases describing the events or contents of the chapter is presented ...
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Small caps and text figures in titlecase
I'm currently typing up some lecture notes for a university course, and I'm having trouble deciding how exactly I should typeset the title of the document.
The title consists of the subject ...
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Typography- what is the bottom end of the L called?
I'm trying to learn about typography and I made this image, but I wasn't sure this was the arm because it's at the bottom of the letter. Can anyone help, please?
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How can I align code in code listings in HTML?
I would like to have a code listing with alignment in HTML. This is an example of how it is supposed to look:
In this example, the beginning of the second line is aligned with the beginning of the ...
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Is the YYYY-MM-DD date format acceptable in print media? How do you typeset it?
The "ISO 8601" date format is praised for its unambiguity, but it's predominantly a digital format, not too common in traditional media. Do you allow YYYY-MM-DD in print projects, or do you ...
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Name For Too Close Word Spacing
I was wondering if there is a name for the kind of word spacing you can see in the first line:
It is obviously too close as the words seem to blend into one long word. What would you call this "...
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How high should smallcaps be?
A good ordinary book or body-text font should come with smallcaps. How high should the smallcaps be? I suppose this would be expressed as either relative to the x-height (i don't think all smallcap ...
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How to make a Unicode-standardized character (preferably UTF-8) from a vector (SVG) image?
I have a .svg file containing a vector image of WhatsApp logo.
The file is available here in Wikimedia Commons and from what I can tell it's free to use.
I want to paste it as text in my website as a ...
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How does a font designer decide about kerning?
Designing a font is a cumbersome task as each glyph should be drawn. However, finding the right kerning is something that puzzles me.
A font can have thousands of kerning, and there are even more ...
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Proper optical size usage for variable typefaces
How do I know which optical size to use accordingly to pt/px size?
For example, Newsreader goes as low as "1" in the "optical size" axis in it's variable alternative. Does that ...
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Where is word spacing determined and how do I edit it?
I am editing a font in Font Forge but it seems there is no variable or property for word spacing. Applications all render this font with far too wide word spacing which led me to assume this was a ...
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Why not use space-hyphen-space instead of the em dash?
This is something I have wondered about for a while, and although it's the sort of thing we're conditioned to accept unquestioningly, I finally have to question it. This may come across as a bit rant-...
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How to decorate strings of text as nodes if they span across multiple lines?
I have a belief network, in which each node is a belief sentence:
In my analysis I want to decorate those sentence to make it like they are nodes:
(The colors are not matching, but I'll fix later)
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