26 Mar 08
Typographic jargon
The wonderful iLT blog gave me a great idea with one of their recent Sunday Type articles. Johno summarized it rather brilliantly: “how about the word typography constructed from typographic terms?” Read the article to see that in context.
Now, I really liked this. I linked it with the fact that they’re now running a type terms series and… well, I just could not not do it. It was a challenge, and it took a while, but it’s done. And I’ve expanded my typo-cabulary. Each letter refers to a certain part of typography, and is built by words that describe it.
Here’s the full piece. The definitions for each word can be found on a separate page. Enjoy and comment away, I really like comments :)
Typography by Vlad is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Posted in typography on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 2:56 pm
7 Responses to “Typographic jargon”
26 Mar 08
4:15 pm
It’s beautiful !
Superb,love it ..
27 Mar 08
5:55 pm
Just fabulous! Did you create it using illustrator with text on paths?
27 Mar 08
7:33 pm
vlad
Actually, it was Photoshop with paths. Kerning was the most difficult things on the curved parts, and I don’t think I got it right all the time :) Thanks! Glad you like it.
28 Mar 08
2:38 am
Great job Vlad! Got here from iLT. You’ve really done your homework!
28 Mar 08
5:54 pm
Wow, I’m impressed with the time you put into this. Awesome work.
14 Apr 08
2:49 am
It is indeed a great header. Thanks, Vlad. A great contribution to iLT!
22 Apr 08
3:49 am
This was really amazing! I’ve spent a while just looking through and reading it.