# An Aesthetics of Typography ## Quotes - From that type book: >A character is [[the concept]] connected to an elemental part of a script or writing system. Consider the way we draw a lowercase "a" — in the Latin script, it has an accepted core structure, despite subtle differences in typefaces, lettering, and handwriting. It doesn't even matter that in some languages and dialects, its pronunciation differers. What's important is that there's an agreed-upon way to visually express the "a" character. The uppercase "A" is its own character, with a totally different structure, but the two are connected by [[the concept]] of a single letter. >A glyph, on the other hand, is [[the concept]] of the character manifested in the real world. This is slightly harder to grasp with digital type, so perhaps it's easier to think back to the days of metal or wood type, where you could actually hold each glyph in your hand as a block of type. Digitally, a glyph is what's shown to the end user as they type words in a document, and it's those glyphs that we then manipulate typographically, from changing the font size (effectively, the size of the glyph's em square), to adjusting the tracking (the additional horizontal space either side of each glyph). ## Brainstorms ## Notes ## Drafts ## Resources ### Readwise ### Literature Notes ## Resources ## Odds and Sods