Caligrafia | Calligraphy

Caligrafia (do grego καλλιγραϕία, καλλι- calli, "belo", e -γραϕία grafía, "escrita") é um termo usado para qualquer tipo de escrita à mão. Mas é tradicionalmente a arte de escrever manualmente os signos (fonéticos ou ideográficos) com as qualidades da elegância, uniformidade e beleza.

Calligraphy (from Greek κάλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφή graphẽ "writing") is the art of beautiful writing (Mediavilla 1996: 17). A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner" (Mediavilla 1996: 18). A style of calligraphy is described as a hand or alphabet (Johnston 1909: Plate 6).

Image: Modern western calligraphy.
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Aldus Manutius

THE LEGACY OF ALDUS MANUTIUS AND HIS PRESS










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Aldus Manutius (1449/50 - February 6, 1515), the Latin form of Aldo Manuzio (born Teobaldo Mannucci; sometimes called Aldus Manutius, the Elder to distinguish him from his grandson) was an Italian printer, founder of the Aldine Press. He was born at Bassiano (Latium), part of the Papal States.
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Alfabeto latino

Latin alphabet
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The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. Apart from Latin itself, the alphabet was adapted to the direct descendants of Latin (the Romance languages), Germanic, Celtic and some Slavic languages from the Middle Ages, and finally to most languages of Europe. With the age of colonialism and Christian proselytism, the alphabet was spread overseas, and applied to Amerindian, Indigenous Australian, Austronesian, and some East Asian languages. More recently, Western linguists have also tended to prefer the Latin alphabet or the International Phonetic Alphabet (itself largely based on the Latin alphabet) when they transcribe or devise written standards for non-European languages; see for example the African reference alphabet.
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For details on the evolution of lower case letterforms from Latin capitals, see Latin alphabet.
Individual letters: Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Matthew Carter

"The most important typography designer of our time, MATTHEW CARTER (1937-) is one of the few designers whose work is used by millions of people every day. Having devoted the first half of his career to typefaces for use in print, such as Miller and Bell Centennial, he then pioneered the design of fonts for use on screen, notably Verdana for Microsoft."

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Walker typeface, 1995
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http://www.yale.edu/printer/typeface/index.html

“Yale” is inspired by the late fifteenth-century Venetian typeface that first appeared in Pietro Bembo’s De Aetna, published by Aldus Manutius. A pristine copy of this book may be found in the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale.(...)