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The style and appearance of printed matter. The art or procedure of arranging type.
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What is the typography term which refers to the usage of bold, italics, and underline styles...
Bold and italic and underline are all examples of typographical emphasis. Others include (but are not limited to) strikethrough, overlining, changed font and size, capitalisation and letter spacing.
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Origin of | (pipe symbol)
One use of the pipe symbol in typesetting is for the (usually fifth) footnote at the bottom of a page. In this case, it is doubled and called parallels (||).
Talking of the asterisk and dagger, typo …
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In old books, why is the first word of the next page printed at the bottom of this page?
In old books from the 16th to 18th centuries, the first word from the next page is often printed right justified on its own, at the end of the current page. It's not in every book of this period, but …
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Why is "de facto" often written in italic?
The following style guides all say to write foreign terms in italics, with some exceptions, notably those anglicized everyday words.
The Guardian style guide says:
Use italics for foreign words and p …
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What are the names of the pieces of a question mark?
I couldn't find any common typographical terminology for the top part so you could call the top bit:
top part,
squiggle,
curl,
curve,
stroke.
You could call the bottom bit:
bottom part,
dot …
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Are software titles italicized?
It depends on the style guide you're following.
Wikipedia says yes for games, and no for other software:
Italic type (text like this) is generally used for the following categories of titles:
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W …
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What are the historical reasons for the conventional sequence of footnote symbols?
Additional footnotes are somewhat inconsistent and represented by a variety of symbols, e.g., parallels (||) and the pilcrow (¶), some of which were nonexistent in early modern typography. …
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Why is there a period after the roman numeral in a royal title?
According to the 1949 Bibliographical description and cataloguing by John Duncan Cowley:
The earliest printers used roman numerals more often than arabic and usually divided a long numeral by mean …
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During what period of history did English use “ß”, the “sharp s” ligature?
The ß ligature was used as part of the apothecaries' system of weights and measures used throughout Europe. Often Latin was used as the lingua franca, but it was also used in English medical recipes. …
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