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History of Type
History of type in a typography book
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 4
01/14/2009

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Typography
Definition
The study, design and use of identical repeated letterforms.
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Petroglyphs
Definition
rock engravings
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pictographs
Definition
cave paintings
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pictograms
Definition
simplified images representing specific words
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ideograms
Definition
images that stand for concepts or ideas
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phonograms
Definition
images that represent sounds
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logogram
Definition
a symbol that represents a whole word
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xylography
Definition
woodblock printing (developed by chinese). The first woodblock printed text was Buddism's Diamond Sutra.
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relief printing
Definition
any printing process in which the ik sits on a raised surface. (early uses: money and playing cards) Xylography is an example of this.
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watermark
Definition
a kind of trademark that is built into fine papers by including raised designs in the paper molds.
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incunabula
Definition
term for books produced during the shift from handwritten manuscripts to printed books
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intaglio
Definition
any printing process in which the ink sits below the surface of the plate
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lithography
Definition
based on treating a limestone so that tit wold attract ink in some places and repel it in others
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planographic printing
Definition
ink sits on smooth surface (like lithography)
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