On Apr 13, 3:32=A0am, Armadillo <re...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > I'm at times amused at the terms we use from day to day to describe
type=
.. In
> > particular I am somewhat boggled that most people use the =A0terms
"uppe=
r case"
> > and "lower case", terms derived from the position of boxes of slugs at
a=
> > printshop, =A0instead of the much more elegant, at least to me,
"majuscu=
le" and
> > "minuscule" which directly refer to the characteristics of the letters
> > themselves. Unfortunately, if I use majuscule and miniscule in
conversat=
ions
> > most people have no idea what I am talking about.
>
> In typography there seem not to be terminology everyone agrees.
Especially=
typeface classification has dozens of sysyems but none of them can do the
j=
ob well.
>
> I like uppercase and lowercase terms just because they include piece of
pr=
inting tradition. And there is more, the term leading for (increasing)
line =
spacing comes from adding lead strips between the lines.
>
> In my mind majuscule and minuscule refer to written forms like for
example=
carolingian minuscule.
>
> I always talk about typefaces describing character shapes or the design.
F=
ont is in fact a container for typeface, a computer file or two cases fill
o=
f lead. Some people for example talk a about big fonts meaning big type
size=
and I often reply by asking " A big font, how many megabytes is it?"
>
> Jukka
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<< two cases fill of lead. Some people for example talk a about big
fonts meaning big type size and I often reply by asking " A big font,
how many megabytes is it?" >>
=2E..and there are still some that will ask, "How much does it weigh?"
or "How many 'A's in the font?"
Bill
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