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Topic: Space typography


  
  Space (punctuation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not all languages use spaces between words; the ancient Latin and Greek did not.
Spaces were not used to separate words until roughly 600 AD – 800 AD (see interword separation for more on the history).
In typography there are various kinds of interword spaces, mainly differing in their width.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Space_(punctuation)   (203 words)

  
 Space character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A space character is a character used to represent a space.
Unfortunately, very few user agents are able to render a hair space correctly: in most cases the result is an unwanted symbol or a question mark on the screen, depending on the font and renderer capabilities.
Space characters appearing in inconsequential places within element start tags in both XML and HTML are generally ignored by processors of those markup languages.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Space_character   (933 words)

  
 The Road Taken/Paul Shaw - ITCFonts.com
Ruder’s typography is defined by asymmetry and an emphasis on counter, shape, and negative space.
Ruder’s typography was progressive – in contrast to the conservative typography of Jan Tschichold – and “geared toward the future” (Gottschalk).
Typography: Macro- + Microaestheticsmakes a distinction between fundamental visual principles - “space, structure, sequence, contrast, form and counterform” - and traditional technical standards, in arguing for the relevance of the Swiss aesthetic/ethic in today’s computer-dominated typography.
www.itcfonts.com /Ulc/2542/BookRevRoadTaken.htm   (2045 words)

  
 Tribe03 | SPACE
Space is the place where all is potential and all is actualized.
Looking for definitions of space, I found a description of the way hunters and gatherers use and move around in various levels of space: a large area is divided in smaller parts.
Space is the flexibility, or the fixedness between bodies, minds and properties.
www.hollandfonts.com /tribe/tribe03/intro/space.html   (614 words)

  
 The Birth of the User   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In place of the classical model of typography as a crystal goblet for content, this alternative view assumes that content itself changes with each act of representation.
Typography becomes a mode of interpretation, and the designer and reader (and the designer-as-reader) competed with the traditional author for control of the text.
The beauty and wonder of “white space” is another modernist myth that is under revision in the age of the user.
www.designwritingresearch.org /essays/birth_of_the_user.html   (1103 words)

  
 [No title]
The typography is designed to handle display at a variety of scales so that the user can move smoothly between detailed views and overviews of as many as one million words.
Yin Yin Wong has explored the use of dynamic forms to create expressive visual narratives (see Figure 4).5 By using moving typography, she was able to overcome the resolution limits of the display to create type that appears to be speaking to the reader with an incredible density of meaning.
His study interests are in the area of dynamic typography in three-dimensional landscapes, and research in the design of complex information environments has led him to construct novel physical interfaces for manipulating virtual objects.
www.research.ibm.com /journal/sj/353/sectiond/small.txt   (4858 words)

  
 Typotheque:
I feel that some of the foundamental principles of both fields (typography / architecture) could possibly overlap, typefaces are built letter by letter in a extordanary lengthy manner which deters many potential typographers similarly to the way the general public awe a newly erected building.
I first explored where typography and architecture meet in general; in/on buildings (inscribed/fascia lettering-interior signage), in the architectural drawings and models, in the advertisement of a building, in an artist (i looked at people who were both architects and typographers like William Morris, Peter Behrens...
The build unit turns into an object that still is a space but denies give access to that contained and defined spatial relationship or in another case it automatically associates itself with the landscape (another defined space).
www.typotheque.com /site/discussions.php?topic=671   (2811 words)

  
 learn Typography and Page Layout - Type Setting, free Tutorial
With the taste for narrow spacing still growing, some authorities suggest that the ideal word space is the width of the lower case 'i' in the type being used.
Space is used to separate one thought or section of copy from another, therefore the amount of space should be varied according to how isolated one thought is from another.
Since reducing the amount of space between the letters may not be desirable, we must consider the space between closer letters in order to make them consistent with the letters that are further apart.
www.typography-1st.com /typo/typset.htm   (2855 words)

  
 [No title]
Letter spacing should be considered in relation to the individual character widths of the typeface used.
Letter spacing should be increased in copy which is set all caps or small caps.
Variation in letter space is not ideal when setting justified copy but is sometimes necessary, when justifying on a narrow measure, to avoid large gaps of word space.
www.pbtweb.com /typostyl/lettersp.html   (767 words)

  
 Project for a Scientific Metapsychology: Cube of Psychological Space: Cognitive and Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic ...
Psychological space is a conceptual metaphor which connects or fuses the two conceptual domains of Psyche and Space, or Mind and Body, or Spirit and Matter.
The Id, the Unconscious of the second typography, is the material source of the unconscious energy of the self as well as identifying characteristics and self-interests and dispositions which are not simply instinctual.
Inner space is (surprise) a model of outer space (or possibily the other way around) with the spatial directions replaced with logical categories and dimensions of experience.
www.psyche.com /psyche/cube/cube_psyche.html   (3700 words)

  
 Character design standards - Space Characters
The no-break space is the same as the word space character with the added functionality of providing a way to prevent two words from being separated by a line break.
The no-break space is not the same character as the figure space.
The majority of these characters are traditional typographic space values or characters that are related to other character's width criteria.
www.microsoft.com /typography/developers/fdsspec/spaces.htm   (894 words)

  
 WordStar for Windows - How-To Manual Typography
The rules of typography apply when you have a choice and if you are using true proportional typefaces, where varying amounts of space between letters are designed into the font.
Justified type will inevitably have uneven spacing between words because there is no other way to justify type except by adding or subtracting small amounts of space between words (for all practical purposes, not between letters, though, which is considered a typographic no-no).
Publications typed with two spaces have an unprofessional appearance, whether you agree with it or not, and will cause your work to be ridiculed (open any book on your shelf – the only books you’ll see double spaces in were desktop published).
www.wordstar.org /wswin/howto/typography.htm   (6210 words)

  
 index.html
The space creates a continuous cycle of comfort and discomfort in which the viewer constantly interacts with his or her own consciousness.
In 2D design, space is extendible; it allows for endless varieties of shape and size in the creation of image and typography.
Virtual space could be seen as a place where all these dimensions come together along with more abstract concepts as: the visualization of dreams, imagination, and mixed metaphors.
www.design.ucla.edu /mfa/Exhibition2000   (591 words)

  
 Type Right for a Pro Look: Production Graphics with Wendy Peck at webreference.com
The default line spacing, which is called leading (rhymes with sledding) in some programs, is usually far too large when using large type sizes.
You may have to read the headline twice if the line spacing is too large, or the character spacing too tight, but you are unlikely to blame the type.
The upper case example with close character spacing is too tight, and the different angles of the characters are not attractive.
www.webreference.com /graphics/column26   (1061 words)

  
 fontblog : Fontblog Typography Tips
On top of that, the space between initials should not be the same size of space as between sentences, but my knowledge of typography and fonts would indicate that they would both end up with the larger space that follows a sentence.
When a double space is used after a period, this breaks up the texture and flow, of the paragraph and the whole page, and introduces what we call “rivers” in the text.
All occurences of two or more spaces, or a space at start of a paragraph, are a “smell” — they indicate that what you are typing wants to be an indented paragraph or a table.
blogs.msdn.com /fontblog/archive/2005/11/03/488794.aspx   (1780 words)

  
 Transition II: Typography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Typography is just as much a part of the paratext as is the cover or any of the ancillary things that accompany a text that are not, strictly speaking, a part of the text; typography is textual, helping us or hindering us in our reading.
Typography is, among all paratexts, the one which is most closely joined to text; it is, in fact, the very body of the word that the author has written.
A folio may also be the space within which the page number alone appears; this is often placed at the bottom of the page, centred or justified right or left.
www.mouton-noir.org /writings/thesis/ch2/transition2.html   (3670 words)

  
 Desktop publishing help - typography
Really good typography puts a wider than normal space between sentences, typists did this by typing two spaces in a row (as does this document), good publishing software should have some better way of doing a wider space using a single wider space character (perhaps automatically).
The “en” and “em” spaces, and dashes, are so named for occuping the space used to print the capital letter “N” or “M”, likewise with “ex” referring to the space used to print a lower case “x”.
There are em and en spaces; spaces that are the same size as the em and en (a typesetting measurement based on the “size” of the M or N characters; note that it’s not the height or width, but the overall size of the character required by the printing process, which includes spacing around it).
evpc.biz /computing/desktop_publishing_guide/typography   (1744 words)

  
 TYPOGRAPHY
Typography is the rightful distribution of letters and spaces (historically, using lead type) on a surface (sometimes vellum, usually paper, and now -- apparently -- a monitor or screen) to convey information and facilitate understanding.
Although calligraphers are not usually considered typographers, the history of typography must begin with calligraphy for when Gutenberg invented printing from movable type, all his knowledge of character shapes, spelling, page layout, etc, was based on the books available to him which were, of course, hand written by monks and other scribes.
Similarly, we expect to see a certain amount of space around the letters in a word, both vertically, on either side, and horizontally, between the lines.
www.cbbag.ca /BookArtsWeb/Typography.html   (538 words)

  
 TYPOGRAPHY: White space
The vertical space in a text block is called leading, and it is the distance from one baseline of text to the next.
Blank line spacing between paragraphs, in contrast, makes a page easy to scan and provides extra white space for visual relief.
If you are using CSS you can set the exact spacing for the indentation using the "text-indent" property of paragraphs.
www.webstyleguide.com /type/space.html   (448 words)

  
 Showket Design - Industrial, Graphic, Automotive, Product, Company Identity, Custom Paint Schemes
Typography is an art that is not well known, when done correctly it is never even seen.
Typography can be used to create a feeling and show what is more important throughout a page of type.
Typography is one of the most detailed oriented labor intensive design arts.
www.showketdesign.com /graphic/typography.html   (100 words)

  
 creativepro.com - dot-font: The Myth of Plain Text
The subtleties of typography, of which 99 out of 100 people are completely unaware, make the difference between words that those 99 people will want to read and words that they'll skip over.
What the characters actually look like at the other end depends on outside factors such as choice of font and size and spacing -- matters of "style" that can be applied to the content as easily as you might slip on a jacket or a different pair of shoes.
The Typography of Text: One is that, as I've said, the way words look has a huge effect on how well they communicate.
www.creativepro.com /story/news/9763.html   (1307 words)

  
 learn free Typography and Page Layout - Typography Terminolgy
A fixed amount of white space exactly one em wide, which will not be `stretched' for justification purposes as will a space band.
A fixed amount of white space exactly one en wide, which will not be `stretched' for justification purposes as will a space band.
A particular amount of white space, such as an em, en, or thin space, which will not be `stretched' for justification purposes as will a space band.
www.typography-1st.com /typo/typterm.shtml   (3891 words)

  
 T - Typography Terms
A space equal to one-fifth of an en space.
Typography is the study and process of typefaces; how to select, size, arrange, and use them in general.
Traditionally, typography was the use of metal types with raised letterforms that were inked and then pressed onto paper.
www.proximasoftware.com /fontexpert/terms/t.htm   (673 words)

  
 typo2
Answer: The number of spaces after periods and colons are traditionally the concern of the designer and typesetter--not the copyeditor.
(Noncompensatory spacing leaves the same amount of horizontal space regardless of the physical width of the letter.) Noncompensatory spacing is very choppy, and the eye cannot discern sentence ends without an extra dollop of choppiness.
Typesetters, thus, ordinarily leave only one space after a period, reasoning that the period itself leaves the extra space to balance the copy and indicate the end of a sentence.
www2.ncsu.edu /ncsu/grammar/Typo2.htm   (935 words)

  
 Levitated | Emotion Fractal
The Emotion Fractal is a recursive space filling algorithm using English words describing the human condition.
The result is a region of space completely filled with increasingly smaller type.
A limit on the depth of the recursive call exists in addition to reasonably limiting the size of the region to be filled (in this case, 8 square pixels or more).
www.levitated.net /daily/levEmotionFractal.html   (194 words)

  
 Digital Web Magazine - CSS 101
For now, think of margin as the space outside of the containing box, and padding is the space inside.
Positive values increase the space and negative values decrease the space, squishing the letters together.
I’ve elected to space things out, and used ems, which has the effect of making the spaces bigger on the larger headings.
www.digital-web.com /articles/css_101   (2725 words)

  
 Rules of Typography: Part I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The period is preferable to the space, but this is purely a matter of personal taste.
Phone numbers separated by spaces are quite common in Europe, less so in the U.S. When creating em and en dashes, you can add space before and after the dash, or not.
If you do add a full space by pressing the Space Bar, it is important to add it before and after the dash.
www.fontsite.com /Pages/RulesOfType/ROT0997.html   (1016 words)

  
 A List Apart: Articles: The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)
Others prefer to insert hair spaces on either side of the em dash, but this is problematic with some web browsers (see the section on spaces for more detail).
Both are visibly wider than a normal space, and once again, Arial Unicode MS is the only mainstream font that includes both, even though they are part of the official HTML 4.01 specification.
But if it indicates that the thought or quote is just trailing off at the end of a sentence, then only the ellipsis is used, to clarify that no words from a quotation were omitted, as would be the case if the additional period were there.
www.alistapart.com /articles/emen   (2410 words)

  
 comp.fonts FAQ: General Info (4/6)
A Brief Introduction to Typography Space, time, and bandwidth are too limiting to provide a complete introduction to typography in this space.
Brushwork can also be the basis for script, as with Present Script (Sallaway, 1974) and Mistral (Excoffon, 1953) Although modern typography typically relegates the italic to a second- class citizenship subordinate to the roman, there are still some italic typefaces designed as such in their own right.
Although it is far too early to judge the ultimate impact of grunge, I see the form as the merger of the industrial functionalist movement called Bauhaus (contemporary with Art Deco, named after the architectural school) with the wild, nihilistic absurdism of Dadaism.
www.faqs.org /faqs/fonts-faq/part4   (7028 words)

  
 My Design Studio's MyDesignPrimer.com | Fonts | All About Spacing Between Sentences
In the days of monospaced typing (as on a typewriter), it was proper to type two spaces between a period and the start of a new sentence.
A capital "W" was allotted the same space as a capital "I." Two spaces were used so that a reader's eye could easily see that one sentence had ended and that a new one was beginning.
A capital "W" is allotted much more space than a capital "I." Because of this, one space is enough for a reader's eye to comprehend the start of a new sentence.
www.mydesignprimer.com /fonts/40010.html   (403 words)

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