{"id":9113,"date":"2011-11-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/11\/15\/fontography-term-or-pretentious-blather\/"},"modified":"2011-11-15T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T07:00:00","slug":"fontography-term-or-pretentious-blather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20111115-00\/?p=9113","title":{"rendered":"Fontography term or pretentious blather?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Fontography is like wine. The connoisseurs speak in a language that only superficially resembles English. <\/p>\n<p> Here&#8217;s a list of words. Which of them are terms used in fontography, and which are just pretentious blather? <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>aloof <\/li>\n<li>assertive <\/li>\n<li>cold <\/li>\n<li>cuddly <\/li>\n<li>humanist <\/li>\n<li>international <\/li>\n<li>neutral <\/li>\n<li>no-nonsense <\/li>\n<li>open <\/li>\n<li>quirky <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> If you aren&#8217;t familiar with font speak, here&#8217;s a sample I stole from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/ie\/archive\/2010\/09\/16\/internet-explorer-9-logo-visual-refresh.aspx\"> an old article on the evolution of the Internet explorer logo<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> In <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elements_of_typographic_style\"> <i>The Elements of Typographic Style<\/i><\/a> by Robert Bringhurst, &#8220;this typeface is described as a heavy un-modulated line and tiny aperture (which) evoke an image of uncultivated strength, force and persistence.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <b>Bonus link<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/cheeseorfont.com\/\">Cheese or Font?<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fontography is like wine. The connoisseurs speak in a language that only superficially resembles English. Here&#8217;s a list of words. Which of them are terms used in fontography, and which are just pretentious blather? aloof assertive cold cuddly humanist international neutral no-nonsense open quirky If you aren&#8217;t familiar with font speak, here&#8217;s a sample I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-9113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Fontography is like wine. The connoisseurs speak in a language that only superficially resembles English. Here&#8217;s a list of words. Which of them are terms used in fontography, and which are just pretentious blather? aloof assertive cold cuddly humanist international neutral no-nonsense open quirky If you aren&#8217;t familiar with font speak, here&#8217;s a sample I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}