Member kri… Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Has anyone heard of a term other than "dot" for the dot that occurs above the lower case i and j? I've been asked if there was an "official" term and I know of none. Perhaps we can invent a new "official" term. Then we can claim special knowledge of it. And to make this even more open-ended, I want to pass along the fact that here at Megacorporation, the registration mark is commonly referred to as an "R-ball". For some reason, however, a copyright symbol is not referred to as a "C-ball." Kristin Link to comment
Member gui… Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 It's called a tittle. «El futuro es una línea tan fina que apenas nos damos cuenta de pintarla nosotros mismos». (La Luz Oscura, por Javier Guerrero) Link to comment
Member Wes… Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Can also be referred to as a Jot: Jot / N. Gr. The name of the letter, ex. i. The smallest letter of the Greek alphabet. An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle. Although a Jot usually is referring to the whole character. Link to comment
Member par… Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 What about dotaccent and dotlessi? Link to comment
Member cha… Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Sometimes a dotaccent is just a dotaccent. Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Nice book, shame about the tittle... http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/dot-everything/?hp Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 This is intriguing... http://desktoppublishingforum.com/bb/archive/index.php?t-468.html >I just got permission from Matthew Carter to reprint his small essay on “tittle,” Wonder if anyone is familiar with it? Link to comment
Member Dan… Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I giggle a little whenever you use that word... Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Tittle on Wikipedia. A tittle-ating entry. Link to comment
Member kri… Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 Thanks everyone! I'm feeling so entittled! Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 It's nice to see that Megacorporation has Typographers on staff. Other places don't have those anymore! Link to comment
Member wil… Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Kristin: We should stick with "dot" and leave "tittle" to purists and jargon mavens. I mean: why should we have to say or write "tittlelessi" when we can use "dotlessi"? For another thing, "tittlelessi" looks like the name of a Greek or Bulgarian cheese I could buy at Spiro's up there on University Avenue. I had not bothered to see who made that first post until I saw Ricardo refer to "Megacorporation." Then I knew it was you. Cheers from across the river. powers Link to comment
Member spe… Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 You have to target your comments... Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 I think that I'm with Will on this... See an earlier thread about the use of the terms "majuscules" and "minuscules": https://typography.guru/forums/topic/58544-forwarding Link to comment
Member Flo… Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Name the dot on lower case i and j To me, it’s just a half-assed umlaut. Link to comment
Member par… Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Beautiful, Florian :) Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 On Florian has the balls to call it how it is. Link to comment
Member dbe… Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 "Name the dot on lower case i and j" I was thinking the i-dot would be Claire, the j-dot Buzz, then on the next face, who knows, Armstrong and Jackie, or Nick and Nack. Cheers! Link to comment
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