Excellent ressource! Summaries like this often lack depth and detail, but this page really does give a good bird's-eye view of typography & it's terminology.
This is a great resource. And as always if you're interested by this stuff and haven't gone through The Raster Tragegy and Low Resolution, please have at it:
This book, Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton, was one of the first design books I ever read. I have been a designer for about 10 years now. It is a very approachable introduction to typography.
Out of curiosity, can anyone point to a similar resource aimed at languages not written with the Latin alphabet? Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc.. I'm curious which "knobs" are available to other languages, and how preferences differ.
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[ 5.7 ms ] story [ 38.3 ms ] threadnit: Would be great to update with SVG drawings. These "old" ones are badly pixelated.
http://rastertragedy.com/
Even in these days of high-resolution screens this process of adapting a perfect curve to imperfect pixels is important and really just fascinating.
A new sample every day, very cool.
https://atadistance.net/2017/03/13/japanese-typography-basic...