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One-Stop GIS Introduction of Typography in Cartography: Typefaces and Fonts (Especially for GATE-Geospatial 2022)

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Topography is a detailed of the surface features of land. It includes the mountains, hills, creeks, and other bumps and lumps on a particular hunk of earth. This handy word is a Greek-rooted combo of topos meaning “place” and graphein “to write.” Typography means the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, size, line length, line-spacing, letter-spacing, and adjusting the space within letters pairs.

Use of Typography in In , a variety text material is found in maps to meet different purposes:

Titles

Labels

Legends

Annotations

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Functions of Typography in Cartography Typography contributes to the beauty of a map. Text is information added to a map that assists the user in orientation of a map, aids in recognition of features, and explains any particular information. Without text a map is referred to as “blind map.”

Type is used to label and name.

Type is used on maps to organize.

Type explains information on a map.

Type manipulates and imparts different impressions on a map.

Typefaces and Fonts A is a distinct style of characters that are created by a typographer or type designer. Typically, the shapes of these lettered-symbols characterize the typeface. A simple definition is to think of as the delivery mechanism and typeface as the artistic creation. In other

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words, a font is “all the variations of a typeface of a given size possible” – including variations in weight, italics, and kerning.

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In figure, a typeface is a design of type while a font is a complete character set of a single style of a typeface. For example, Century Gothic is a typeface but the styles of Century Gothic in the green box are fonts.

A Type Family is then a collection of fonts many sizes and styles for a single Typeface. A type family is usually given the same name as the typeface, but that is not always the case.

For example, The Times family consists of Times New Roman, Times New Roman World, Titling, and Times Hever Titling typefaces. In all a Type Family many contain many variations but all of them are based on the common design characteristics.

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