SMC228H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Incunable, Reductionism, Sans-Serif
26 Oct 2015
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In typography, an ascender is the portion of a minuscule letter in a latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a font. Ascenders, together with descenders, increase the recognizability of words. The process or production of folding, gathering, and fastening together the printed sheets of a book and enclosing them in covers. Cloth used in binding especially since the 1830s, when publishers began issuing books in prefabricated casings rather than leaving binding to the bookseller/publisher. The cloth may be embossed with various patterns or designs. A group of angular, script like typefaces represented by textum, rotunda, and bastarda and no longer commonly used artefact substance fastened together so as to compose a material whole. Works: something represented and transmitted by a text or texts. Issue: all copies of an impression that bear some distinctive feature (e. g. variant title page) marking them as distinct from other copies of the same impression.
