Typographysystem

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Point system
Intypography, apointis the smallestunitof
measure, being a subdivision of the largerpica. It is
commonly abbreviated aspt.
72of aninch
12 pt= 1 pica
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Leading
Intypography,leadingrefers to the distance
between thebaselinesof successive lines of type
In consumer-oriented word processing software, this
concept is usually referred to as "line spacing" or
"interline spacing."

Kerning
Intypography,kerning(less commonlymortising) is
the process of adjusting the spacing between
characters in aproportional font, usually to achieve a
visually pleasing result.
Kerning adjusts the space between individual letter
forms, whiletracking(letter-spacing) adjusts spacing
uniformly over a range of characters.

Type setting technique

Manual- During much of theletterpress era,
movable type was composed by hand for
eachpage. Cast metalsortswere composited into
words and lines of text and tightly bound together
to make up a page image called aforme, with all
letter faces exactly the same height to form an
even surface of type. The forme was mounted in a
press, inked, and an impression made on paper.

Type setting technique

Hot metal type setting (Mechanical): this method
injects molten type metal into the mould that has
a shape of one or more glyphs
Ludlow:- A manual linecasting solution
- Uses moulds which are handset into a special
composing stick.

Typesetting-mechanical
Two foundries
MONOTYPE composition
- Used hot metals to form individual letters
- Spelling mistakes could be corrected by adding or
removing individual letters
- Used for quality printing such as books etc.
LINOTYPE composition
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Used hot metals to form complete line of type in one bar.

Editing these required replacing an entire line
Easier to handle
Was widely used in newspaper industry

Typesetting-Phototypesetting
The preparation of manuscript for printing by the
projection of images of type characters on
photographic films which is then used to making
printing plates

Digital typography
is the creation of documents usingpage
layoutskills on apersonal computer. When used
skillfully, desktop publishing software can produce
text and images with attractive layouts and
typographic quality comparable to
traditionaltypographyandprinting, so DTP is also
the main reference fordigital typography