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Agrippas Angelic Alphabets were created by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa who was perhaps one of the most famous occultists of his time and still bares a strong influence on the modern occultist. In Agrippa's Libri tres de occulta philosophia appears four different alphabets that this article concerns. Agrippa's three alphabets are known as Malachim, Celestial_Alphabet, and Passage Du Fleuve are all similar in terms of shape and style. All feature unusual serifs in the shape of circles, with thin script, and strong borrowing from G ...

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In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of grapheme (i.e., character) designs. A typeface is usually comprised of an alphabet of letters, numerals, and punctuation marks. Helvetica, Century Schoolbook, and Courier are three examples of typefaces. A typeface may also include or consist of ideograms and symbols (e.g., mathematical or map-making glyphs). The art of designing typefaces, called typ ...

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• Typeface - History
• Typeface - Typeface anatomy
• Typeface - Serifs
• Typeface - Proportionality
• Typeface - Measurements
• Typeface - Types of font
• Typeface - Texts used to demonstrate typefaces
• Typeface - Legal aspects of typefaces
• Typeface - Organizations

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The letter D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is dee. D - History. The Semitic letter Dâlet probably developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. In Semitic, Ancient Greek (Modern Greek /ð/) and Latin the letter was pronounced /d/, in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was superfluous but still maintained (see letter B). Greek letter: Δ (capital) or δ (small) (Delta). The minuscule (lower-case) form of D, consisting of a loop and a tall vertical stroke, de ...

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• D - History
• D - Usage
• D - Alternative representations
• D - Computing
• D - Meanings for D

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Cursors feature in many of the interfaces between computers and their users. On CRT screens displaying character-based interfaces, the cursor originally (and sometimes still) manifests itself as a solid (or transparent) rectangle (or underscore) indicating the position of the next insertable character or (when back-spacing or over-typing) the next deletable character. Modern computers with a graphical user interface (GUI) usually display two cursors: the mouse pointer (often in the form of an arrow) which mo ...

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In typography, emphasis usually refers to means of stressing parts of a text by using letters in a different style from the rest of the text to make them stand out from the main text body. Emphasis typography - Methods and uses of emphasis. The human eye is very receptive to differences in brightness within a text body. One can therefore differentiate between types of emphasis according to whether the emphasis changes the "blackness" of text. A means of emphasis that does not have much effect on "bla ...

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• Emphasis typography - Methods and uses of emphasis
• Emphasis typography - Emphasis in design
• Emphasis typography - Alternative methods for emphasis
• Emphasis typography - Capitalization
• Emphasis typography - Letterspacing
• Emphasis typography - Special punctuation marks

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Ionic - From ancient Greece Ionic. An Ionian is a member of one of the four great divisions of the ancient Greek people. Ionia is an ancient region in western Anatolia, in which the Ionian settlers established some colonies. In the ancient Greek language, an Ionic dialect is any of several related dialects. The Ionian Islands are seven Greek islands which lie on the eastern coast of the Ionian Sea ...

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• Ionic - From ancient Greece Ionic
• Ionic - Physics and chemistry ionic

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The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɡ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g. Of the six plosives that would be expected from the most common pattern world-wide, that is, three places of articulation plus voicing ([p b, t d, k ɡ]), [p ...

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• Voiced velar plosive - Features
• Voiced velar plosive - Varieties of [ɡ]
• Voiced velar plosive - In English
• Voiced velar plosive - In other languages
• Voiced velar plosive - The symbol

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Serif fonts can be classified into one of four subgroups: old style, transitional, slab serif, or modern. Serif - Old Style. Old style typefaces date back to the 15th century, and are characterized by a diagonal stressing, subtle differences between thick and thin lines (low line contrast), and excellent readability. Old style typefaces are reminiscent of the humanist calligraphy from which their forms were derived. The angled stressing of old style faces generates diagonal lock, which, when combined with their bracket serifs creates detailed, positive word-p ...

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Serif, Serif - Background, Serif - Usage, Serif - Classification, Serif - Old Style, Serif - Transitional, Serif - Slab Serif, Serif - Modern

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For the purposes of type classification sans-serif designs broadly divide into four major groups: Grotesque, early sans-serif designs, such as Grotesque or Royal Gothic. Neo-grotesque or Transitional, modern designs such as Standard, Helvetica, Arial, and Univers. These are the most common sans-serif fonts. They are relatively straight in appearance and have less line width variation than Humanist sans-serif typefaces. Transitional sans-serif is sometimes called "anonymous sans-serif" d ...

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Sans-serif, Sans-serif - Classification

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Frutiger is considered one of the classics of modern typography and forms the basis of many other modern typefaces, such as Bitstream Vera and Verdana. It is currently used by the UK National Health Service for its new corporate identity. In the Bitstream font collection, Frutiger is part of the Humanist sans-serif classification. The specific equivalent to the Frutiger family is Humanist 777. Linotype, the type foundry which originally released Frutiger in 1976, developed a revised version named Frutiger NEXT in 1999, the letterforms for ...

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Frutiger, Frutiger - History and reputation, Frutiger - Frutiger Next, Frutiger - Takeoffs on Frutiger

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His most noted work is Die neue Typographie, a manifesto of modern design, in which he condemns all fonts but the sans-serif as well as centered design (e.g., on title pages). He advocates the use of standardized paper sizes for all printed matter and makes some of the first clear explanations of the effective use of different sizes and weights of type to quickly and easily convey information. Although the book remains a classic, Tschichold later abandoned his rigid belie ...

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Jan Tschichold, Jan Tschichold - Design, Jan Tschichold - Types, Jan Tschichold - Bibliography

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Modern Design of the early 20th century, much like the fine art of the same period, was a reaction against the decadence of typography and design of the late 19th century. The hallmark of early modern typography is the sans-serif typeface. Early Modern (not to be confused with the other modern era of the 18th and 19th centuries) typographers such as Edward Johnston and Eric Gill after him were inspired by vernacular and industrial typography of the latter nineteenth century. The signage in the London Underground is a classic of this era and u ...

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Graphic design, Graphic design - Classic theory of design, Graphic design - Elements of design, Graphic design - Principles of design, Graphic design - Other theories, Graphic design - Early history, Graphic design - 20th century, Graphic design - Soviet Constructivism, Graphic design - Computer programs

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Typographers have derived a comprehensive vocabulary for describing and discussing the appearances of typefaces. Some vocabulary applies only to a subset of all scripts. Typeface - Serifs. One can sub-divide fonts into two main categories: those of serif and sans-serif fonts. Serifs comprise the small features at the end of strokes within letters. The printing industry refers to typeface without serifs as sans-serif (from French sans: "without"), or as g ...

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Typeface, Typeface - History, Typeface - Typeface anatomy, Typeface - Serifs, Typeface - Proportionality, Typeface - Measurements, Typeface - Types of font, Typeface - Texts used to demonstrate typefaces, Typeface - Legal aspects of typefaces, Typeface - Organizations

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The Semitic letter Dâlet probably developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. In Semitic, Ancient Greek (Modern Greek /ð/) and Latin the letter was pronounced /d/, in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was superfluous but still maintained (see letter B). Greek letter: Δ (capital) or δ (small) (Delta). The minuscule (lower-case) form of D, consisting of a loop and a tall vertical stroke, developed by gradual variations on the majuscule (capital) form. In handwriting it was common to start the arc to the left of the vertical str ...

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D, D - History, D - Usage, D - Alternative representations, D - Computing, D - Meanings for D

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List of typefaces - Calligraphic. AMS Euler Apple Chancery Scriptina (freeware script font, comparable to Zapfino) Zapf Chancery Zapfino List of typefaces - Handwriting. Ashley Script Comic Sans Dom Casual Kristen (typeface) Lucida Handwriting Tekton List of typefaces - Miscellaneous. Cupola Curlz Script (vector font included with ...

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List of typefaces, List of typefaces - Serif, List of typefaces - Sans serif, List of typefaces - Semiserif, List of typefaces - Display, List of typefaces - Monospaced, List of typefaces - Script, List of typefaces - Calligraphic, List of typefaces - Handwriting, List of typefaces - Miscellaneous, List of typefaces - Blackletter, List of typefaces - Non-English, List of typefaces - Unicode, List of typefaces - Dingbat/Symbol fonts, List of typefaces - Miscellaneous

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With both italics and boldface, the emphasis is correctly achieved by temporarily replacing the current typeface. Professional typographic systems (which include most modern computers) would therefore not simply tilt letters to the right to achieve italics (that is instead referred to as slanting) or print them darker for boldface, but instead use entirely different typefaces that achieve the effect. As can be seen in Fig. 1, the "w" letter, for example, looks qu ...

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Emphasis typography, Emphasis typography - Methods and uses of emphasis, Emphasis typography - Emphasis in design, Emphasis typography - Alternative methods for emphasis, Emphasis typography - Capitalization, Emphasis typography - Letterspacing, Emphasis typography - Special punctuation marks

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There are numerous basic components of the Federal Identity Program: the Canada wordmark and two corporate signature types with national symbols and bilingual titles, all of which are rendered consistently. Federal Identity Program - Canada wordmark. The Canada wordmark is mandatory on virtually all of the applications mentioned above. Established in 1980, the Canada wordmark is essentially a logo for the Government of Canada: it consists of the word "Canada" written in a serif font, a modified version of ...

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Federal Identity Program, Federal Identity Program - Applications, Federal Identity Program - Components, Federal Identity Program - Canada wordmark, Federal Identity Program - Corporate signatures, Federal Identity Program - External link

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Hangul may be written either vertically or horizontally. The traditional direction is the Chinese style of writing top to bottom, right to left. Horizontal writing in the style of the Roman alphabet was promoted by Ju Si-gyeong, and has become overwhelmingly preferred. In Hunmin Jeong-eum, Hangul was printed in sans-serif angular lines of even thickness. This style is found in books published before about 1900, and can be found today in stone car ...

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Hangul, Hangul - Names, Hangul - Official names, Hangul - Other names, Hangul - History, Hangul - Jamo, Hangul - Jamo design, Hangul - Jamo order, Hangul - Jamo names, Hangul - Obsolete jamo, Hangul - Syllabic blocks, Hangul - Orthography, Hangul - Mixed scripts, Hangul - Style

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Italic typefaces were developed around the year 1500 designed to emulate the Italian handwriting of the period. At that time italic fonts were considered distinct typefaces in themselves, not the variants they are nowadays. Except for capital letters (which were printed in roman type), entire books were printed in italic type. It was not until later that the modern distinction between italic and roman type was developed. Italic fonts have shown some influences from types and hands common in other regions ...

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Italic type, Italic type - Examples, Italic type - Italics are used for:, Italic type - History, Italic type - Use in web pages, Italic type - Use with parentheses

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Labels that reveal what a pictured figure is speaking have appeared in Western graphic art since at least the 13th century. More recognizably modern "speech balloons" begin appearing in 17th century printed broadsides. With the development of the comics industry in the 20th century, the appearance of speech balloons has become increasingly standardized, though the formal conventions that have evolved in different cultures (USA as opposed to J ...

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Speech balloon, Speech balloon - History, Speech balloon - Popular forms, Speech balloon - Speech bubbles, Speech balloon - Thought bubbles, Speech balloon - Other forms, Speech balloon - Captions, Speech balloon - Artist-specific variations, Speech balloon - Graphic symbols in speech bubbles, Speech balloon - Punctuation marks, Speech balloon - The big Z, Speech balloon - Drawings within the speech bubble, Speech balloon - Order, Speech balloon - Fonts

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