Tag Archive for 'Typography'
Wikipedia entries for ligatures, punctuation, interrobang, calligraphy
Ten typographic mistakes everybody makes
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9th century B.C.: The earliest writings in history didn’t know any punctuation marks at all. There weren’t even spaces between words. The oldest known document that used punctuation was the Mesha Stele in the 9th century B.C., which used dots (more)
serif: . sans-serif: . monospace: . verdana: .
ASCII, Unicode, HTML-Codes:Period, dot, full stop: 46 | 0×2E | U+002E | . | .
History and Origins
In 5th century B.C. symbols were used by Greek playwrights to mark end of phrases and help actors showing when to pause
Words were separated by a dot centered between words. Eventually dot (more)
Dave at grain edit posted a series of classic covers of the Latvian magazine Jaunā Gaita:
After the second World War many Latvian writers were relocated to different areas of the world. Many ended up in Great Britain, Canada and the USA. Living in these new lands they began their own periodicals and publication houses. A (more)
