The Six Fundamentals of Typographic Jurisprudence

I. Anatomy

Stroke

Body Parts

Serif

Terminal

П. Proportion

Weight

Width

Staff

X-Height

Posture

Axis

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Optics

Counter

Ш. Technology

Cast Metal Type

Digital Type

...It all began > a long, long

time ago,

IV. Metrics

Sizing

Spacing

Measure

V. The Grid

Module

Column

Margin

Flowline

VI. Genealogy

Type Family

Type face

Font

Type Style

around 1440, in Europe, when an innovative goldsmith by

the name of Johannes Gutenberg developed the art of

printing with interchangeable, cast-metal type. By the end

of the 15th century, the European culture, already rich in

Romanesque and Gothic expression, was at the threshold of

a Renaissance. Scholars and printers began producing and

packaging knowledge once hidden from public consciousness.

They gave thousands access to the great works of Socrates,

Plato, Chaucer and others whose minds helped drive

intellectual development around the world. Amd it is here

where typography as we know it was born...

Character