The Typographic Desk Reference: TDRFirst edition. The Typographic Desk Reference (aka TDR) is comprised of a thousand facts on the form of Latin-based writing systems. The book includes the following four main sections: Terms - Definitions of format, measurements, practice, standards, tools, and industry lingo; Glyphs -The list of standard ISO and extended Latin characters, symbols, diacritics, marks, and various forms of typographic furniture; Anatomy & Form - Letter stroke parts and the variations of impression and space used in Latin-based writing systems; and Classification & Specimens - An historical line with examples of form from blackletter to contemporary sans serif types. Designed for quick consultation, entries are concise and factual, making it handy for the desk. Its foreword is written by Ellen Lupton. |
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97 diagram acute Additional Latin letter Adobe alignment alphabet to represent ANATOMY & FORM Arabian Nights ATypI-Vox baseline bézier splines blackletter breve called caron Catilina cedilla character circumflex CLASSIFICATION & SPECIMENS cold composition column comma Czech dash dental or alveolar designed diacritical mark diaeresis/umlaut Dogrib dotted double flush folio fricative glottal stop GLYPHS grave Greek hook above Inflected hooktop horn hyphen Icelandic indent Inflected Latin letter IPA alphabet italics kerning Latvian letterpress printing letterspacing ligature Linotype lowercase form macron Mahfouz Arabian Nights margin metal type MICHIGAN LIBRARIES TERMS Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Arabian namese Nights & Days ogonek overdot paragraph plosive punchcutting punctuation marks Quoufque tandem romanized Mandarin rounded vowel Serbo-Croatian poetics serif types Slab Serif small capital space stem stroke style symbol tilde TrueType Tsimshian typeface typesetting typographic undercomma underdot unrounded uppercase velar Viet Vietnamese voiced dental voiceless width word x-height