XTT Part 1: The Detection of Types

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Don’t miss eXtreme Type Terminology, Part 1: The Detection of Types, the first of a five part series on typographic terminoogy at ilovetypography.com, penned by me!

XTT Part 3: The ‘Black Art’
a new swoosh deal
our nation’s happiness
the big yellow smiley face
the true road to earthly joy
a never-ending chain-reaction freeway pileup
a cerise shirt
Fool’s Paradise
I used to live on an iceberg
Temporary Village
our visual ray
the warm colors
an amethystine hatchet
domesticity and witchcraft
Equation Bookshelf
the Art of the Business Card
Fold-ins, Past and Present
ABC3D
dots of blue and gray and green
the mean reds
white hair and diamonds
The morning light
Biz Barbie
the Zen doctrine bearing most directly on the tea aesthetic
pure sabi-wabi
one phrase not yet burned
XTT Part 2: Anatomy of a Letterform
Lynda Barry
the most pictures of Jesus I have ever seen in one place
the last two pure perfect white families
the difference between God and a street light
XTT Part 1: The Detection of Types
The Yellow Jade Mushroom
Christianity by fear and by rote
a nervous-breakdown gun
our most valuable tulip
The best games
The histories of vampires and people
two souls in one body
China Facing Olympic Heat
China struggles with Tibetan unrest
Vernacular Baton Rouge: PERSONAL TOUCH
A greenish-white light
A purple sunset
The great globe of the sky
dark eyes
Italian khaki
A.R.
Besten Schriften
Farkitrol®
The green and vivid-coloured world of fruit-gleams
lemons, lemons, innumerable
a universe on fire
bracing their heels against a comma
clear and bright
The multimedia magazine in a box
symbolic thought
the most ringing declaration of independence ever set down
one twig on a giant branching tree of life
The Aurelian
FFFFOUND!
Favorite Typefaces of 2007
the New Rainbow
a scarlet fez
the grey colt
the dim setting of a jewel
light and sound
Indian Street Graphics
Driscoll Reid (Aka: Hørne)
The Four Horsemen
a buff
this year’s Jazzfest poster
the pitiable fashion of those antiquated times
Woman jailed for ‘worshipping tea pot’
everything is going away from us
a name
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul
the new black
The world isn’t made of pen, ink, and paper
that unfailing source of the terrible
Space: The Lost Atlantis
the thorny wilderness
stop twice as long at a semicolon
a blue ground with a white spot
sheet after sheet of silver paper
a very nice heaven
a Semicolon Appreciation Society
the punctuation mark of our era
The impatience of the digital reader
The beauty and wonder of ‘white space’
Takashi Murakami
a digital scribbling democracy
CORNBREAD
o wall
Obay
a huge synthetic, silver orb
the Frisbie Baking Company
the prism of punk
the tuning knob
?
Fontastic
the colours were lovely
Smoky Sky
a message of good will
the red of porto, the orange of cointreau, the green of chartreuse, the cloudy yellow of pastis
male plumage
A blue lizard
gray-green eyes
The Peace Symbol Turns Fifty
a history of TV test patterns
Bob the Builder
Wrong Font
the wrong star
Chip Kidd
blog!
Don Cherry in Bombay
a kind of dreaming
Your blog
The best blog in the world
the most beautiful of all American flags
‘Alaska furniture’
that flying white mountain
‘thought-stingers’
Patterns
The War On The War On
Iune Wind
Poppin’
the bark of the root of mandrake
Surf Icing
shrieking and blaspheming colors
an abecedary
scientific fatalism
a single jewel
The great synthesizer
Apple’s original logo
The most important letter forms
one of the most important formal problems in the entire history of lettering
printed material
decorative variations
the ‘black art’
the Beautiful
Gothic scripts
the white space between
the flight of a bird or the gallop of a horse
Saul Steinberg
aesthetic ideals
the best legibility
a fleeting blue
so-called moon
The Wish to Be a Red Indian
Edward Catich
the same ceiling
God’s will
Buddhism
The Lavender Armageddon
a well-pressed Armani suit
The 2007 Periodic Table Printmaking Project
the rise of deco
the marbled endpapers of her journal
2001: A Space Rainbow in Curved Air
a printer ink war
a suspicion of brilliantine
planets and nebulae of cigarette smoke
all pretence of colour
the Romain du Roi
‘What a car!’
the ultimate prison
a cut-glass age
singing the Colombian national anthem
Seadragon and Photosynth
digital publishing
words
in a digital setting
‘How like Monet!’
the conventional colouring of life
a tract of quivering grey
but London was not afraid
Oxford empty
This brilliant poster
a long pause
do not use semicolons
Woody Allen and Windsor Elongated
the green noodle
a coat of many colors
A fine example of a demonstration
Artworker required
A Mnemonic Wallpaper Pattern for Southern Two-Seaters
W.
the fake ink blot
through the red grass
red gold
pink and red
a crystal cage
a flower among stones
Burmese rubies
The ruby laser
the pallor of sand
a world of bioluminescence
Sleeve Heads
the multipliable work ad lib
Carried by the waves
Plastic constituents of particle character, 1958
the letter ‘K’
K
M
Vowels for Wales
famous letters and numbers
an entirely new concept
I am the urn of Tita Vendia
The most beautiful lettering in the world
[T]he medieval i
Iesus Nazarenus
IVLIVS CAESAR and MARCVS AVRELIVS
A Chorale* of Cherokee Night Music As Heard through an Open Window In Summer Long Ago
A flat toothpick
Diamond quality
three million toothpicks
Garamond v Garamond
a mill for making paper
variations on a theme
A serif
Roman [type]
stereotype
'I believe in the Book of Kells!'
Littera scripta manet
the number 26
the 'five-barred gate'
2 and 3
The nine numerals
zero and the place-value system
the little circle
the modern name of zero
the 'figure numbers'
Who could understand such a thing?
The End of the World
Jake Shimakuburu
Number signs
the Hindu-Arabic system
the Flamingo
aqua green, aqua blue, aqua beige, aqua buff, aqua dawn, aqua dusk
Kandy Kolors
Vernacular Baton Rouge: Bottom Line Music
The Use of Slang Punctuation in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 1968
The hobo
the Black Hobo
A River Runs Through It
ringed by the rainbow
Harry Smith cortometraggio 7
Pull My Daisy
The Mother Road
I Say A Little Prayer
Face the Music
Unaffordable Home Design
Blue Monk
Jazz Casual
A Night in Tunisia
The bee’s knee
=|:-)=
an ‘e’ tax
hints and symbols
Vernacular Baton Rouge: The TURKISH BATHS
a great Mediterranean moment
the Alice-in-Wonderland side of religion
a crock of gold
Real G-g-green Chartreuse
reality in a dream
Word of the Year
An On-Line Color Thesaurus
the poetic title
The word processor
POW...
every picayune punctuation
spectral opposites
White and black
A Wave Under the Moon
Marina Apollonio
ANTIVERT
arts of peace
Op art . . . goes Pop art one better
a world beyond us
WHAT IS REAL AND WHAT IS NOT?
the glaring greenish-grey eye of Simon
little golden stars twinkled through the glow
still waters
like ingots of gold
GET A DUNE BUGGY
Young America does swing
a bang and a squiggle
Art in letter form
Anybody can draw one letter
All must be in tune
[I]f the alphabet is your hobby
she lived too Fast
Life with Letters
a sparkling with rings
The symbol-making function
the use of symbols
Words forming thought and vice versa
A pair of spectacles is rather like a g
When is an A not an A?
a luxury market
[T]he business of printed lettering
a curious mixture of azure and mother-of-pearl
The colors are inside our brains
HIGH PRIORITY
seeing letters in color
the Glass Bead Game
A River Runs Through It
The new House Industries catalog
diaphanous and precious and white
Mexico
Petit Four
Japanese flowers
Dripping with a tango
whitebright bluebright copperbright
pistachiogreen bubbles of twilight
a primitive revolution
40+ Excellent Freefonts
unusual wallpapers and repeats
skyblue and smokedsalmon and mustardyellow
tinfoil stairs
a green hand
his mauve and lavender portfolio
her dingat
every imaginable color
[T]he universe that we know
the principle of alphabetic writing
Old Semitic
a dome of blending tints
A little green bird
the colour of their skins
the height of impropriety
my collection
How should ‘sans’ be pronounced"
the word ‘serif’
Burma-Vita
Burma-Shave
something to look at
gray elephants
back online!
an historic moment
a media empire
The letter M
What shall we call a “thing”
Modernization
the interval
the interjection Io!
The word punctuation
the period and the comma
a missing twenty-third letter
The Ear
a dazzling sun
Mardis Gras
Paul Rand
Vernacular Baton Rouge, part 5
cities at night casting halo-glows in the sky
Vernacular Baton Rouge 4
This is the space age
why we dance
the night of the full moon
handsome soldiers in pistachio green
"the time of the green spectacles"
white ants
glaring white sunlight
swaths of English flowers
Elizabeth"s head was beginning to swim
An all-metal blonde
Booker loved green
Foe-damned ruby motor
Colourful Allusions, vol. 1
Red rimmed his eyes, blue shadowed his jaws
a tiny revolution
the real scenery
a man called Zaganar
The secret of history of graphic design
Shwedagon
postcards from Burma
"Your handwriting is so round"
instant graphic design education
moonlight
a "purging of the realm according to custom"
moving stairs
The greatest hyphenator ever
Saturday night
the Great White Way
Vernacular Baton Rouge 3
a dark blue mood
Death was in the the dream
a beautiful winking wonder
Shwedagon Pagoda
Bagan
The world"s largest book
The Burmese abugida
sterling insignificance
the people of Burma
Free Burma
lost and forgotten, like sunsets vanished
the letter Q
so far gone!
stomping, rollicking, scintillating, solid, hot, strains
vintage American album cover art
Burma (Myanmar), 1989
a thousand red flambeaux
a big black dance
Earth Noir
Vernacular Baton Rouge 2
What worries me now
Government forces carry away body
Minerva nerveless in Nirvana
on a red stage
a fine prospect
A Magna Carta
Make the logo big
Michael Bierut's portfolio
'əpoɔı̣un sı̣ pooɓ ʇɐɥʍ
Why is The Red Cross, Red'
the traditional Latin name for Switzerland
Akzidenz Grotesk
medium-weight monoline serifless capitals
the vision and spirit of the machine age
the zenith of the transitional style
Caslon Old Style with italic
Claude Garamond
The art and science of the proper and true proportions of the attic letters, which are otherwise called antique letters, and in common speech roman letters
the cancelleresca script
the spaces between the letters
the evolution of alphabet design
Why is Pink a Girl Color and Blue a Boy Color'
Gothic lettering
The value of a book
The games of kings
The watermark
On the Road: The Original Scroll
the pearl was there
and yet you live
New Orleans glowed orange bright
the stars
a handful of crazy stars
where Frisco fogs are born
the manuscripts of the snow
real mental power kicks
the beautiful dream of life
Vernacular Baton Rouge
the full moon
Bernard Maisner
Niels 'Shoe' Meulman
The Caroline miniscule
The codex
The Latin alphabet
art forms of great harmony and beauty
North Semitic writing
the evolution of funerary texts
papyrus, a paperlike substrate
The design flexibility of hieroglyphics
Mesopotamian cylinder seals
a divine scribe
The highest development of cuneiform
early pictographs
two great type designers
printing in Venice
a true 'small-letter' alphabet
writing as compared to drawing
The missing letters
all consonants, no vowels
the Moabite stone
Kyoorius Designyatra
the first Hindu characters
of divine origin
a true phonetic alphabet
the Roman
the Cyrillic
Black Letter
The colours of life
make your choice, and be content
the colours of paradise
what is commonly thought small
resolved to be a poet
The sun
the power of lights
on the stream of words
extraordinary pigments
live iridescence
'I'm reading!'
yellow light
Modern writers
Idleness
little things
The crown of literature
pixels
Chance
The Diamond Sutra
compounded shadows
thoughtless thought
The 'Yellow Kid'
the Roman gazette
an Akkadian word list
a book
rag paper
movable type
the Sumerian writing system
The Phoenicians' system of writing
the present English alphabet
the Colosseum by moonlight
sonorous, crystalline
my favorite colophons
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a quote book!
I Just Want To Be A Tugboat Captain
winged genies
Hammurabi
The ziggurat
Naram-Sin
the Tree of Life
the invention of writing
the golden age of Mesopotamian civilization
a heritage of great value
Roxy Music
a great big white elephant
Speech Bubble Logos
The invention of the microscope
too fine for mortal Sight
Picture and Vision
The pupil with a stylus
the scroll of fate
Hunger for gold
humid Iris
swift goddess
when Jupiter veils the sky
old age in the gods is green
white ivory agleam
a flickering light
yellow and glowing red
Soft-petaled violet or hyacinth
four and twenty Blue-Beards
weird greenish creatures
eyen of his mynde
eyesight of the mind
The gold of hem
What gold they have
hoor
hoary
Phebus
Phoebus
Cecilie the white
Cecilia the White
The Philosopher's Stone
the color of constancy in love
just a week ago
Zen To Go
orange stands for power and happiness
'Applesins'
citrinacioun
electrum
bathed in a faint, purple light
the eye of the forest
grey-eyed people
Vollis Simpson's Whirligig Farm
paint the inside of your chicken coop orange
the familiar brown paper bag
'duct tape'
the end of an area
The full moon
the blue fences of the quilt night
the jars of eternity
HAL Sings 'Daisy'
The Space Odyssey
Diamonds
Serenity
the color of life
brown mud water
a red neoned candy store
the rattling red livingroom
glowing pearls
the white dew
The gazing eye
flat bats
a lazy guy
the salient feature of the rainbow
our ability to imagine
out of chaos
Removal from the Social Unit
the White Face and the Red Nose
His eyes
a night sky vaulted with black stars
a somber yet truly vivid green
her eyes
Brown paper
the cylinder-seal
an amulet
longer and wider seals
'cuneiform' writing
writing boards
a halo of dazzling light
'to build high'
the true 'Mesopotamian heritage'
Fireworks
a beautiful dull sheen
the sea of blackness
the crystal chandelier of eternity
two stars in the sky
black and shapeless
No more white! No more black!
communists
great delirious spurts of scarlet
The Governor
her perverse red hair
a burning village
an arc lamp
blackness
the mirage of moving light
smart corporations prefer powerful word marks
his demure purple eyes
a blue rose
[A]ll that is essential in typography
gold, glass and hair
the light from another world
looking at a peach for 20 minutes
I love Mickey Mouse
Advertising is dead
kohl from the market place
his red lollipop
Looking at a man in the eye
the brown sluggish old Neuse River
the redbrick wall behind the red neons
a brown businessman's bar
the great black bird
dream golden
a silver light far up in the sky
A deaf composer
a splendid torch
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
inscribed vinyl
the Golden Floor
a brief crack of light
The white goes on forever
The moon belongs to everyone
A verbal contract
That old black magic
the old grey Donkey
whitewash
the purple moor
not so red
A rose-red sissy
Night and day
Don't let's ask for the moon!
the blue guitar
starless and bible-black
in the simple blessing of a rainbow
Black is beautiful
the rainbow sign
The Yellow Book
pearly white
the Norwegian Blue
the blue of the night
A rainbow and a cuckoo's song
It was the Rainbow gave thee birth
You see
his blue gardens
the serpent-haunted sea
the lovely moon
the starry dynamo
Colour and Warmth and Light
the Yellow God
I stared into the sky
a true-blue rebel
Pale hands, pink tipped
sexophones
the sun
the carbon atom
The snotgreen sea
The heaventree of stars
the sole purpose of human existence
little black sheep
the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River
a tombstone white
the green fuse
green and dying
happy as the grass was green
the Only Animal that Blushes
yellow polkadot bikini
what beautiful diamonds!
I used to be Snow White
a purple glow
great black oxen
the sparks blown out of a smithy
London 2012
I like work
primary-color splendor
Incense And Peppermints
Paper Sun
Echoes
Journey To The Center Of The Mind
By faith Enoch was translated
the black cat bone
an old hoodoo formula
The Blues
this impression
images and memories
Fahrenheit 451
terror fax
the 'Blue Moon'
The irony mark
The lawyer's grey eyes
a diamond of the first water
small joys
Meet Chan Yen
seeing her in black
like the sun
'Not bad'
light and shade
'X'
New Dotti Berry
Blue-plate special.
Paint it red.
Yellow paint.
Draw one in the dark.
A blonde with sand.
Black and white.
White cow.
Paint a bow-wow red.
Bowl of red.
Splash of red noise.
the dead-gray monotony of existence
sound absorber
the green eyes
new writing systems
she could hardly cast a shadow
a dime-store diamond
Egyptian hieroglyphics
She knew the oranges
a sickish green
the invention of writing
steeped in gold
there are tasteful whites and there are crass whites
a very indecent costume
the green of pistachio ices
kicked in the head by a red mare
White skulls and black skulls and yellow skulls
A large blueness
that vague color
Seaweed colored eyes
green as the back of a new dollar bill
a dark red tie with black spots on it
stars of chromium on a sky of black velvet
a blonde
red to white, and then back to red again
Sub Rosa
the seeds of writing
Two movies
the firefly
My Alien Radio Manifesto
a new level of visual pollution
three new letters
the Yellow Turbans
dressed as Venus in a picture
the Britons dye their bodies with woad
the Twelve Tables
Etruscan
Phoenician
composite ideograms
streamlined pictographic script
a black stone stele
the white city
black was the color of life and resurrection
the red of lies and deals and greed
the wildest edge of edges
Literal light
Violet hills and burnt umber buttes
rosy-fingered dawn
Difficulties
two rainbows daily
The brown paper bag
a clown's head
the lair of a palm-reader
a tall Babel
the seeds of writing
The seal
cuneiform
hieroglyphs
Hieratic script
the lines of hieroglyphs
a cerulean blue grand piano
an unappealing orange
The yellow glow
darkness alone
a confused sea of red caps
the black prison
the whole wild night
the diamond-cut-diamond arts
the full Tellson flavour
'And you in brown!'
The wine was red wine
the gamut of sounds and the spectrum of colors
of the soul and for the soul
This night
the sanguis agni
an autumn wood
the phenomenon of clothing
The making of pictures
STEREO
this amazing variety of grays
unfathomable fire
philosopher's gold
Vowels
a practiser of alchemy
endless beaches
blue eyes, of a double blue
Secrets of the Magic 8 Ball revealed
tulip mania
the height of French fashion
The quest for a blue rose
blue lights
rare clouds
His eyes
the hues of that arch
free lectures
the polychromatic hospital
Blue plate.
Bowl of red.
Brown stone front.
Red lead.
Red, white, and blue.
Sea dust.
Snowstorm, in a.
Sunny side up.
White wings.
Whitewing.
White cow.
Black and white.
Black stick.
White bread.
diamond dust
water-coloured jewels with sparks of fire
a seven-sided flower
the light becomes richer
The afternoon sun

XTT Part 1: The Detection of Types

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