http://typophile.com/node/12387 Comments for "Type Design" en http://typophile.com/node/12387 <p><strong><a href="/wiki/Indices" class="wiki">Indices</a> : <a href="/wiki/Terminology" class="wiki">Terminology</a> : Type Design</strong></p> <p>The craft of devising new versions of <a href="/wiki/alphabet" class="wiki">alphabet</a>s for use in a <a href="/wiki/font" class="wiki">font</a>.</p> <p>Type designers are sometimes mistakenly called fontographers. <a href="/wiki/Fontographer" class="wiki">Fontographer</a> was the name of a popular computer program for designing type, predominantly used during the 1990s and early 2000s.</p> <p><strong>Relationship to typography.</strong></p> <p><a href="/wiki/Typography" class="wiki">Typography</a> is the craft of using pre-made <a href="/wiki/alphabets" class="wiki">alphabets</a> in designs, type design is the art of crafting new alphabets. Quite often one person occupies both roles, and specializes to a greater or lesser degree in one or the other.</p> <p>See also <a href="/wiki/How-To" class="wiki">How-To</a></p> type design type designer typography wiki Thu, 12 May 2005 12:25:37 -0700 paul d hunt 12387 at http://typophile.com