Category: Typography

Dingbats are specialty typefaces that consist of symbols and ornaments instead of letters. Wingdings is probably the best-known dingbat font, though there are now thousands, often created around themes. Dingbats are appropriate for both print and web applications and can enhance visual communication in many ways….

There are many different font formats, but most common are the following formats:OTF (OpenType), TTF (TrueType), SVG, EOT (Embedded Open Type),WOFF (Web Open Font Format), WOFF2.Fonts can be confusing since there are so many different font types.How can you decide which format you should use?Well,…

All typefaces are not created equal. Some are fat and wide; some are thin and narrow. So words set in different typefaces can take up a very different amount of space on the page. The height of each character is known as its ‘x-height’ (quite…

Most typefaces can be classified into one of four basic groups: those with serifs, those without serifs, scripts and decorative styles. Over the years, typographers and scholars of typography have devised various systems to more definitively categorize typefaces – some of these systems have scores…

In typography, a standard set of terms is used to describe the parts of a character. These terms and the parts of the letters they represent are often referred to as “letter anatomy” or “typeface anatomy.” By breaking down letters into parts, a designer can…