Member Bye… Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Hi there, typophiles, I'm looking for online essays, articles or blogs on typography and web design and I was hoping you could help me find some. It's for my interpreting homework so I need just articles by native english speakers. The second thing is I have to search the articles for typography related verb-noun collocations (such as "set a text"). So far I've read a few posts on ilovetypography and I wasn't able to find any, so I was just wondering -- Are there some typographic verb-noun phrases you commonly use? Thanks in advance Link to comment
Member Jos… Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Compose a page Lay out a document Cast off a manuscript (= count words to fit to page count) Design a book/font/whatever Kern a letter pair Proofread a proof (kind of redundant) Impose a book (arrange pages into signatures) Export a file (to PDF) Delete … uh, just about anything Link to comment
Member aba… Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 http://www.typeculture.com/academic_resource/articles_essays/ Link to comment
Member Bye… Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 Thanks a lot! If you come up with more phrases or articles I'd be grateful. Link to comment
Member jcr… Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Cut a punch Temper a punch Punch a matrix Cast a {type, letter, figure, line} {Pour, Break} a mo(u)ld Ink a {plate, roller} Test a {typeface, layout, design, style} {Render, Rasterize} a {font, typeface, image} Engrave a {score, piece} (music) Float a {figure, graphic, image, chart, table} Pull a quote (Im)press a {page, sheet} {Bold, Italicize} a {letter, number, glyph, word, phrase} Letterspace a {word, phrase} Indent a {line, paragraph} Hang a {paragraph, {comma, hyphen, quote, ...}} Scale a {image, chart, graphic, figure} Align a {column, table, paragraph, block} Justify a {paragraph, block, text} Break a {word, line, paragraph} Hyphenate a {word, phrase} {Split, Break} a table (across pages) {Condense, Expand} a {font, letter, word, phrase, line, paragraph, text} Squeeze a {column, paragraph, block} Wrap a {line, paragraph} Pitch a {design, layout, typeface} (not really restricted to typography) Greek a {line, paragraph, text} Quad a {space, line, gap} {Choke, Jam, Hose} a printer Hint a {font, outline} (Auto-)Trace a {font, outline, image} Expand a path Antialias a {font, image, curve, line} Fill a counter Number a page Lead a {paragraph, text} Feather a {block, page} (increase leading to fill a text block) Switch a {font, typeface, ink} (actually applies to anything interchangeable) Rescue a {widow, orphan} Stack a diacritic Run down a line (fill out a line with nonsense in linecasting systems, usually ETAOIN SHRDLU) Open a press {File, Log} a bug report Oddities and obscurities: Lipsum a {paragraph, text} (from ‘lorem ipsum dolor sit amet’) Kashida a {word, line} Swash a {stem, serif, letter} Foliate a {page, leaf} Found a typeface (rare) Spot a colo(u)r (use a spot colo(u)r instead of regular CMYK) {Choke, Spread} a trap (different methods of compensating for colo(u)r misregistration) Control a point (rare) Scrape a palimpsest Funnier ones: Steal a sheep {Endure, Cajole, Mollify, Please, Berate, Ignore, (Im)press} a client Burn a bridge {Endure, Sleep through} a presentation Tolerate an {apprentice, devil} Decipher a {TrueType hint, script} Comprehend a design Ignore a critic Sacrifice a {chicken, ideal, moral} French a curve Reticulate a spline NURBS a Bézier Etaoin a Shrdlu Titivillate a {scribe, calligrapher} Bedevil a printer There are lots more but I’m running out of ideas at the moment. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Trap a corner Cut a trap hhp Link to comment
Member old… Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 All good advice, but… If you want to capture people's attention, simply do something that they cannot believe is real. Like considering voting for a guy whose sole claim to expertise is making rich people richer. It's all about the OMNEY. You know: go viral… Link to comment
Member jcr… Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 @dberlow: ‘French’ is a perfectly cromulent verb. After all, even the eminent Frank Zappa used it: “half an hour later she had frenched his fry”. Link to comment
Member Bye… Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 Thank you all. Now I just hope I'll find some of them used in a text. Link to comment
Member old… Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 James, Thank you for cluing me in to a new word—which basically means cool, groovy, copasetic or twenty-three skidoo. That clears a lot up. Or thoroughly confuses the issue, if you have no idea what I am talking about. Which, as any reasonable person may be led to assume, I have no idea what I am talking about most of the time. As do many other people. Who, for instance? Take my wife. Please. Can I PLEASE get a rimshot! Hrant: I told you appearing to be screwier than me was gonna be tough… Link to comment
Member hra… Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My hunch is you recently got some very good news and you're giddy like a schoolgirl. Again. ;-) hhp Link to comment
Member 5st… Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Bend it like Bézier. n. Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now