Lead still exists. :·) Kerning was not a technology, though, right? Just a term? Slug feels the closest, except it’s not really in common use. Aah, this will drive me mad now.
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Replying to @mwichary
Lead still exists, but leading is a specific product/tool used in typesetting, that is now obsolete and commercially unavailable. Kerning is a technique, grinding away at the letters using precise tools, whereas the software version achieves the effect using a different method :p
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Sure! But both seem far from my original tweet. :·)
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Uppercase/lowercase referred to actual cases for storing the bits of movable type, right?
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Don't forget "stereotype"
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Not sure that one, or cliché, count, as they are basically slang applied to a completely different thing?
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Yeah, that’s an interesting question. I like them both, though!
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Ditto. My favourite printing etymology fact however, is that the Norwegian term “å falle i fisk” (‘to fall into fish’, meaning ’complete failure’) arises from the similarity of a collapsed forme of movable type to a swarm of silvery fish. :)pic.twitter.com/LqkwViw4L7
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I quite enjoy the fact that all Norwegians know that falling into fish means your plans were foiled by unfortunate circumstances, but virtually no one knows why that is, or questions the logic.
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Quite like how not a lot of people know that being “out of sorts” literally means not having the individual bits of type necessary to complete your sentence or paragraph.
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That’s pretty great!!!
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Oh, and a ‘deadline’ is the marking at the end of a printing press showing you how much printable area there is. If you overshoot the deadline, it won’t make it into print!
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