Typography and language: the paragraph

Structure of the textual content. Study of the characteristics of the book’s content. The paragraph as structural piece. Definition. Types of paragraphs: Justified and unjustified, left ranging, right ranging, and centred. Symmetry and asymmetry in the double page spread. Paragraph attributes. Use of hyphens and text cleaning. Brief glossary.

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Categorized as Page, Theory

Book elements

Responsibility and work method. Book edges and care. Book cover. Jacket. Endpapers. Flyleaf. Title page. Preliminary Pages. Legal or credit page. Dedication, Acknowledgments. Prologue. Preface. Introduction. Contents. Abbreviations list. Chapter or section headings. Headings. Main text. The textblock. Citations. Pages. Final pages. Epigraph. Notes and references. Glossary. Colophon.

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Categorized as Page, Theory

Typography and proportions

Proportion and order. Relations in page format, different progressions. Line length and, effect on reading. Typographic performance. Column width and margins. Relations between the textblock and the page.

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Categorized as Page, Theory

Publishing a book

Context of book edition. Traditional and independent editions, analogical or digital, handcrafted or industrial. Production, printing, and distribution. Editor’s duties. Editorial Process. ISBN, characteristics and functions. Cataloguing in source, characteristics and function.

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Categorized as Page, Theory

Design and morphological operations with typography

Typeface family as a system. Aspects to be considered when designing a related group of characters: choosing the historical and cultural context, structural relations, stroke and terminal features. character weight and word color, distinctive characters and terminals. Axes for the construction of styles.

Typographic Programs

System of systems. Typographic programs, serial families and super families. Construction criteria. Uses. Description of some programs.

Typographic styles

Functions and convention in the use of styles. Traditional axes. Recognizing designed variants and the effects of digital distortion. Small capitals: character weight and line color.

Latin alphabet proportions

Production technology and its influence on shapes. Trajan capitals and their establishment as a model. Basic structures and common width groups. Groups by morphological relation. Historical and contemporary widths.

Typographic classification

Classification as a tool for analysis and study. Classification criteria. Different classifications. Stylistic characteristics, important contributors and families in each historical period.