Type and type-founding
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139094
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85139094#concept
Variants
- Fonts (Printing)
- Founts (Printing)
- Metal types
- Type faces
- Typefaces
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
- Aharoni type
- American uncial type
- Arabic type
- Armenian type
- Arrighi type
- Augustal type
- Bengali type
- Boldface type
- Celtic type
- Centaur roman type
- Cheltenham type
- Chinese type
- Church Slavic type
- Cochin type
- Computer fonts
- Condensed type
- Cursive type
- Devanagari type
- DIN type
- Display type
- Elsevier type
- Expanded type
- Georgian type
- Gothic type
- Gothic-roman type controversy
- Greek type
- Gwendolin type
- Hebrew type
- Hieroglyphic type
- Hunt roman type
- Irish type
- Italic type
- Japanese type
- Korean type
- Logotypes (Printing)
- Mathematical symbols (Typefaces)
- Medieval type
- Modi type
- Oriental type
- Outline type
- Palatino type
- Pica type
- Read regular type
- Roman type
- Russian type
- Rustic type
- Saliceto type
- Sans serif type
- Script type
- South Asian type
- Speculum type
- Syntax-Antiqua type
- Syriac type
- Thai type
- Tom2K type
- Type measurements
- Type ornaments
- Typefounding matrices
- Urdu type
- Wood types (Printing)
Related Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Narrower Concepts from Other Schemes
- Type and type-founding--Collectors and collecting
- Type and type-founding--Computer programs
- Type and type-founding--Data processing
- Type and type-founding--Equipment and supplies
- Type and type-founding--Historiography
- Type and type-founding--Periodicals
- Type and type-founding--Prices
- Type and type-founding--Psychological aspects
Sources
- found: McGrew, M. American metal typefaces of the twentieth century, 1992.
- found: 99048068: Alphabets to order : the literature of nineteenth-century typefounders' specimens, 2000.
- found: Oxford English dictionary online(fount, font: a complete set or assortment of type of a particular face and size; also fully, fount of letter or type)
- found: Headly, G. The encyclopaedia of fonts, 2005:p. 4 of cover (lists fonts by date and style)
LC Classification
- Z250-Z251
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 2006-03-08: new
- 2006-05-11: revised
Alternate Formats