{"id":535,"date":"2007-11-09T17:43:45","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T16:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/typography\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T17:43:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T16:43:45","slug":"typography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; typography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typography is:<br \/>\n1. the art or process of printing from type;<br \/>\n2. the art or process of setting and arranging type for printing;<br \/>\n3. the arrangement, style, or general appearance of printed matter<br \/>\n<em>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/typography\">yourdictionary<\/a>). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It comes via French and Latin from the Greek <em>\u03c4\u03cd\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2  (typos)<\/em>, to strike + <em>\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03af\u03b1 (graphia)<\/em>, to write.<\/p>\n<p>I chose this word today because I found an interesting blog about typhography called <a href=\"http:\/\/ilovetypography.com\/\">I Love Typography<\/a>. As well as discussing typography, the author also gives advice on creating your own fonts, something that quite a few people ask me about. There are also some slightly less-than-serious posts, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/ilovetypography.com\/2007\/10\/02\/typoholism-an-addicts-tale\/\">this one about Typoholism<\/a>, &#8220;A disorder characterized by the excessive consumption of and dependence on type&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I think I &#8216;suffer&#8217; from typoholism, and a related condition for which I can&#8217;t think of a word at the moment. Can you think of a word for my love of languages and writing systems? Perhaps &#8216;panglotophilia&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typography is: 1. the art or process of printing from type; 2. the art or process of setting and arranging type for printing; 3. the arrangement, style, or general appearance of printed matter (from yourdictionary). It comes via French and Latin from the Greek \u03c4\u03cd\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2 (typos), to strike + \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03af\u03b1 (graphia), to write. I chose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}