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Typography the art and technique of the arrangement of type Type: letters in language

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Typographythe art and technique of the arrangement of type

Type: letters in language

Typeface• refers to a specific design on an alphabet

Font• a complete alphabet of one size of one

typeface.

I use the terms font and typeface interchangeably

Typestyle

• used to emphasize a word or sentence. ItalicLightBold

not all type faces have different styles

Serif

Slab SerifSerifs

Serifs

Sans Serif

Modern

Oldstyle

Script

Script

Script

Decorative

DecorativeDecorative

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Design Class

Write down which typeface category each word belongs in.