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Typography

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Articles

The Best Faces for the Screen
Provided by Typofile
It doesn't matter how many hours of video and megabytes of graphics can be stuffed on to...

Georgia & Verdana
Provided by Typofile
Typefaces designed for the screen (finally)...

Type Was Meant to be Read
Provided by Typofile
If you've found your way to this page, you're most likely a member of Generation X.

SVG and Typography>
Provided by O'Reilly XML.com
Mixing the worlds of documents, programming, and visual design is a familiar experience for XML developers, especially when dealing with presentation technologies like SVG. Such mixtures can produce exciting new representations of information. They can also become ugly messes if one fails to learn the relevant aesthetic and design principles.

SVG and Typography: Characters
Provided by O'Reilly XML.com
In the second part of our discussion of SVG and typography we explore some time-honored practices of typographic excellence; as we go along, each “type issue” will lead to the discussion of relevant technical aspects of SVG. The typography issues covered are listed below. Beside each one of them is the associated technical SVG issue discussed:

SVG and Typography: Bells and Whistles
Provided by O'Reilly XML.com
In this installment of our discussion of SVG and typography, we make a departure from the sobriety of the typographic strategies we've been discussing so far and go for the other half of the fun: the bells and whistles of effects, distortions, coloring, and other unusual treatments of type.

SVG and Typography: Animation
Provided by O'Reilly XML.com
In the last part of our exploration of SVG and Typography, we turn our attention to effects with animated type, exploiting SVG declarative animation features.

Typography 101
Provided by Graphic Design About.com
Typography is an art form, no doubt about it. And people get very passionate about it...

Typeface Classifications
Provided by Desktop Publishing About.com
Study the basic classifications of type, what they look like and how they evolved.

Fonts

Fonts.com

Linotype Library

ITC International Typeface Corporation

MyFonts.com

Definitions

Hyphens (-)
The shortest dash; should only be used between words or to break syllables at the end of a line of type.

en dash (–)
The width of an en dash is one half the point size of the type i.e. 10 point type would use a 5 point en dash. Used to indicated a range in numeric values. On a PC hold down the ALT key and type 0150. On a Mac hold down the OPTION key while typing a hyphen.

em dash (—)
The width of an em dash is the same point size of the type i.e. 10 point type would use a 10 point em dash. Used to set off phrases in place of parentheses. On a PC hold down the ALT key and type 0151. On a MAC hold down the SHIFT and OPTION keys while typing a hyphen.

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