The word "typography" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the art and technique of arranging type in order to make written material legible and appealing to readers. For example: "The typography really made the book cover stand out from the others on the shelf."
As the Powell quote above suggests, as of the early 1970s, they led the way into a world where the most ambitious groups dispensed with band-portraits, and even typography: to this day, even if album "sleeves" are now often boiled down to the size of a postage stamp, musicians usually serve notice of their ambition by leaving such fripperies off their artwork.
And all too many have meaningless diagrams.The formula seems to be: keep the sentences short, the wisdom homespun and the typography aggressive; offer lots of anecdotes, relevant or not; and put an animal in the title gorillas, fish and purple cows are in vogue this year.
But, of course, there is substance behind this war of typography.
A revised style guide for developers promotes bold typography, standardised action bars and card-like backgrounds on which data can be clearly displayed.
Cheap software is encouraging designers of all stripes to try their hands at typography.
Some of the type on both the examples shown here were done in this way.It was not until Illustrator 88 was released a year later by Adobe Software that things like "postscript font typography" and "vector graphics" meant we could start to move away from the hand-drawn era.
Ingeniously based on its maker's handwriting, it is the most informal and eccentric of scripts: this is typography as art, genuinely popular and heartening.
Mr Sloan combines time-series visualisation and Venetian typography with ease.
There are terrific charts on the origin of musical instruments across the millennia, the duration and army size of the nine Crusades and a beautiful comparison of every British, Dutch and Spanish sea voyage between 1750 and 1800, displaying clearly how Britannia really did rule the waves.In tracing time, the authors cleverly change the typography and even paper stock from primitive to modern.
Neither Panzer nor Hain, however, paid much attention to the study of typography a characteristic that forms by far the most important clue to the origins of those incunabula, especially given the number of incunabula lacking any indication of printing or of the printer's name (roughly one third of the total extant).
Incunabula, singular incunabulum, books printed during the earliest period of typography i.e., from the invention of the art of typographic printing in Europe in the 1450s to the end of the 15th century (i.e., January 1501).
