Type Spaces

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Type Spaces examines pages of books printed and published by Aldus Manutius in Venice around 1500. By measuring the word-spaces, author Peter Burnhill discerns a system of measurement at work and comes up with the surprising suggestion that this printing shows a unified system of dimensions: of type size, of “leading” or line-increment, of line length, and of text area. He argues that the exceptional figures of Manutius and his punchcutter, Francesco Griffo, used a … More >>

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Smart Graphics: 6th International Symposium, SG 2006, Vancover, Canada, July 23-25, 2006, Proceedings

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2006, held in Vancouver, Canada in July 2006 – co-located with the 28th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society and the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. The 19 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Special focus is given to human individual, group, and dis… More >>

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ISO 13655:1996, Graphic technology — Spectral measurement and colorimetric computation for graphic arts images

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This International Standard establishes a methodology for reflection and transmission spectral measurement and calorimetric parameter computation for graphic arts images. Graphic arts includes, but is not limited to, the preparation of material for, and volume production by, production printing processes which include offset lithography, letterpress, flexography, gravure and screen printing.This International Standard does not apply to three-filter (tristimulus) cal… More >>

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