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'''Typography''' is the art and technique of arranging written language to make it legible, readable, and visually appealing. It involves the selection and application of [[typeface|typefaces]], font sizes, line spacing, letter spacing (kerning), and other design elements. Typography plays a critical role in graphic design, publishing, advertising, and digital media, shaping how text communicates visually.
'''Typography''' is the art and technique of arranging written language to make it legible, readable, and visually appealing. It involves the selection and application of [[typeface]]s, font sizes, line spacing, letter spacing (kerning), and other design elements. Typography plays a critical role in graphic design, publishing, advertising, and digital media, shaping how text communicates visually.
=== History ===
=== History ===
- **Typeface and Font**: A typeface is a design of text characters, while a font refers to a specific size and style of a typeface.
- **Typeface and Font**: A typeface is a design of text characters, while a font refers to a specific size and style of a typeface.
- **Kerning and Tracking**: Adjusting the spacing between individual characters (kerning) and the overall letter spacing in a text (tracking) improves readability.
- **Kerning and Tracking**: Adjusting the spacing between individual characters (kerning) and the overall letter spacing in a text (tracking) improves readability.
- **Leading**: The vertical spacing between lines of text, which affects the text’s visual rhythm and legibility.
- **Leading**: The vertical spacing between lines of text, which affects the text's visual rhythm and legibility.
- **Alignment**: The arrangement of text on a page or screen, including left-aligned, right-aligned, justified, or centered.
- **Alignment**: The arrangement of text on a page or screen, including left-aligned, right-aligned, justified, or centered.
- Web Design: Enhancing readability and user experience online.
- Web Design: Enhancing readability and user experience online.
== See Also ==
== See also ==
* [[Typeface]]
* [[Typeface]]
* [[Calligraphy]]
* [[Calligraphy]]