Typography and the printed English text
- Submitting institution
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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 499
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315670003.ch25
- Book title
- The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415715973
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The chapter ‘Chapter 25. Typography and the printed English text’ addresses the historical development of typography and type use, within a volume largely focussed upon linguistics. This connects two research communities that have to date had only very limited dialogue: writing systems research and typographic history.
The chapter concerns the manner in which successive technologies of reproduction have both influenced language use and responded to it. It draws upon secondary research from established authorities (Carter, Morison, Tracy) and considers the historical development of type production in relation to changes in the use of language. The research process involved archival sources and a synthesis of information from the literature of the subject, to address the research questions ‘how has the technology of type production influenced language use’ and ‘how have changing patterns of language use influenced the development of type production technologies?’.
These concerns are related to my other research and my teaching by two main themes. The first is a concern for typographic design to be informed by semantic considerations rather than purely formal ones, reflected in my conference papers Teaching typography in the 21st century: Reviewing the fundamentals of typography in a post-modern design culture (Agrafa Conference. Katowice 2007), The Typographer as Reader (Typecon, Atlanta 2009, subsequently published in the Linotype journal Linoletter), and the conference paper Typographic Literacies, New Views 2, 2008 subsequently published in the peer reviewed journal ‘Multi’ (RIT 2009).
The second concerns the importance of material processes in the production and reception of typographic information, central to my conference papers Type and Tactility (Typecon New Orleans 2011) and Letter, craft and ornament in post- digital practice (Face Forward typographic conference, DIT Dublin 2015). The chapter therefore addresses concerns that are fundamental to typographic pedagogy and considers them in the context of technological history.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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