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Typography- measurement

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Point system

In typography, a point is the smallest unit ofmeasure, being a subdivision of the larger pica. It iscommonly abbreviated as pt.

1 ⁄ 7 of an inch

1 pt! 1 pica



"eading

In typography, leading refers to the distancebet#een the baselines of successive lines of type

In consumer-oriented #ord processing soft#are, thisconcept is usually referred to as $line spacing$ or

$interline spacing.$



%erning

In typography, kerning &less commonly mortising' isthe process of ad(usting the spacing bet#eencharacters in a proportional font, usually to achieve avisually pleasing result.%erning ad(usts the space bet#een individual letterforms, #hile trac)ing &letter-spacing' ad(usts spacinguniformly over a range of characters.



Type setting techni*ue

• +anual- uring much of the letterpress era,movable type #as composed by hand foreach page. ast metal sorts #ere composited into#ords and lines of tet and tightly bound together

to ma)e up a page image called a forme, #ith allletter faces eactly the same height to form aneven surface of type. The forme #as mounted in apress, in)ed, and an impression made on paper.



• /ot metal type setting &+echanical'0 this methodin(ects molten type metal into the mould that hasa shape of one or more glyphs

• "udlo#0- manual linecasting solution

- 2ses moulds #hich are handset into a specialcomposing stic).

Type setting techni*ue



Typesetting-mechanical

• T#o foundries

• +343T5P6 composition

- 2sed hot metals to form individual letters

- pelling mista)es could be corrected by adding or

removing individual letters- 2sed for *uality printing such as boo)s etc.

• "I43T5P6 composition

- 2sed hot metals to form complete line of type in one bar.

- 6diting these re*uired replacing an entire line

- 6asier to handle

- 8as #idely used in ne#spaper industry



Typesetting-Phototypesetting

• The preparation of manuscript for printing by thepro(ection of images of type characters onphotographic 9lms #hich is then used to ma)ingprinting plates



igital typography

• is the creation of documents using pagelayout s)ills on a personal computer. 8hen useds)illfully, des)top publishing soft#are can producetet and images #ith attractive layouts and

typographic *uality comparable totraditional typography and printing, so TP is alsothe main reference for digital typography

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