Writing, Typography and Media

A shortened written or graphic form of a word or phrase.

The practice of transforming information by rule so that only authorised parties can read or verify it.

The recovery of the sign values and structure of an unknown or no longer understood writing system.

A historical broken-letter German cursive developed for rapid writing, with forms varying by region and period.

Non-linearly organised text whose components are connected by selectable links.

The conception or practice of relating written signs directly to concepts or ideas rather than primarily to sound forms.

An order in which linguistic or medial elements are processed successively in a preferred sequence.

The design of a universally readable script intended to record meanings as independently as possible from individual spoken languages.

The conventional or situationally prescribed direction in which characters, lines, and textual fields are processed.

A system of highly abbreviated signs and rules for the rapid recording of spoken language.

A method that conceals the very existence of a secret message by hiding it within an inconspicuous carrier.

The conventional direction in which signs are arranged and produced within a writing sequence.

The use of Arabic characters to write African languages.

A writing system that represents speech segments with a limited set of reusable signs.

Methods and systems that augment or replace speech, including signs, symbol boards and electronic voice output.

A historical writing direction in which successive lines run alternately in opposite directions.

A procedure that hides a readable message from outsiders through systematic sign substitution or rearrangement.

A writing system designed so its signs directly represent concepts or logical relations.

A culturally developed syllabic writing system used for Cree languages, with characteristic sign orientations.

An added mark on a written character that changes its sound value or differentiating function.

Typographically distinctive lettering used for titles, emphasis or text requiring special attention.

A rule-guided, highly accessible form of language designed to reduce linguistic barriers.

The transformation of transient speech or practice into a bounded, repeatable and transportable textual form.

Writing whose material, location, or use is designed for brief visibility and rapid disappearance.

The study of inscriptions as material, historical, and linguistic evidence.

The visible overall shape of a text created by typography, spacing, structure and arrangement of signs.

A sign in certain writing systems marking a phonological boundary or the absence of palatalisation.

The historical development of scripts, writing techniques, and their cultural uses.

The shaping of persuasion and meaning through links, nodes, navigation paths and non-linear textual order.

A still not generally deciphered sign system found on seals and objects of the Indus or Harappan civilisation.

The spatial arrangement of text, image, and white space on a visible surface.

The ability and cultural practice of reading, writing, and using script as a medium of knowledge.

A form of communication in which language is graphically fixed, spatially arranged, and detached from immediate time.

The logosyllabic writing system of the Maya, combining word signs and syllabic signs in complex glyph blocks.

A collective term for the linguistic forms, conventions, and mixed modes of digitally networked communication.

Language shaped by the timeliness, public orientation, sections and genres of newspapers.

The documented origin and transmission history of an object, dataset, or text.

The marked incorporation of another or earlier utterance into a new context.

Marks that visibly frame speech, quotation, distance or a special use of an expression.

The design of linguistic and visual cues that directs attention, sequence, and weighting during reading.

Ephemeral writing in the sky that draws letters as smoke trails across public airspace.

A sign in certain writing systems marking palatalisation or a special reading of a neighbouring consonant.

A German handwriting style developed in the early twentieth century with distinctive upright letterforms.

Tactilely encoded writing whose signs are perceived with the fingers rather than the eyes.

A script for Amazigh languages with historical roots in North African consonantal writing and modern standardised forms.

A historical system of shorthand signs that recorded utterances through highly compressed graphic forms.

A rule-governed written representation of speech, sounds, or another script.

The visual design of writing through choice, arrangement, size, weight, and spacing.