Typography

According to Wikipedia, Typography is “the art and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type. Type glyphs (characters) are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type is the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing) and letter spacing.”

Typography is performed by typesetters, compositors, typographers, graphic artists, art directors, and clerical workers. Until the Digital Age, typography was a specialized occupation. Digitization opened up typography to new generations of visual designers and lay users.

Windows and Macintosh Web Font Equivalents

On this site you can find a list of the standard set of Web fonts common to all versions of Windows and the Macintosh substitutes, referred sometimes as “browser safe fonts”. When I began styling Web pages, I noticed about six “standard combinations” of serif and sans-serif font lists. This allows identification of a desired font (the first typeface in the list), followed by a list of substitute fonts if the desired font is not installed on the Web client of your Web site visitor. Font substitution most often occurs when a Web page is defined on one platform and visited on another, e.g. Macintosh and Windows have similar but not identical standard typefaces installed with the operating system.

The Type Quarry

The Type Quarry is a hidden treasure within the recesses of Three Islands Press, a privately owned and operated design agency, offering specialty typefaces and other design services. 3IP offers a series of typefaces honoring the quill and ink scripts of Texas Patriots:

This native Texan obviously appreciates the dedication of time, and the fine quality applied by the typographer of these intricate typefaces.