Mary Louise Eklund

Wednesday Words – Don’t Dot Your I Tittle It

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Mary Louise Eklund

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Image from page 757 of "Specimens of type, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts, etc. : catalogue of printing machinery and materials, wood goods, etc" (1897) posted to Flickr by Internet Archive of Book Images. No known copyright restrictions.
Image from page 757 of “Specimens of type, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts, etc. : catalogue of printing machinery and materials, wood goods, etc” (1897) posted to Flickr by Internet Archive of Book Images. No known copyright restrictions.

This is no news to my fellow geeks that love fonts. That’s not a dot on your i it’s a tittle. Yep, that’s the real word for it. Why it is call that I don’t know. Maybe when putting the tittle there it’s titillating for some? Sorry, I had to have fun with this word for an object we all know we use a generic word for, but has a very real specific name. So font geeks I tip my hat to you for teaching us about our own language. Thank you.

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