Display Typography

Hey Team,

I'm doing a report on "Display Typography" but I cant seem to find any reference to it in like 23 typography books I checked out from the library, closest thing I could find was "Display type"- Type above 14pt. Do you think this is what I'm looking for? Any designers out there know a definition, I'm running into a deadend.

thanks,
Michael

Display. (typography) -
Large sizes of type, for use as headlines, titles, and so forth.

Display Type -
General term for type set larger than surrounding text as in headings or advertisements. Usually 14-point or larger.


Books are evil. Use google. Also you can probably find every bit of info about graphic design ever written in a book.... on the net.

Thanks thats about what I have found so far, glad I was on the right track.
thanks,
Michael

I'm not sure if there are any books that are strictly about Display Type. I’ve always thought of Display Type as being pretty broad. There are so many type faces you could use for billboards, posters, and so on like Universe for example. They just need to be big, bold, and most importantly readable.

Display type to me is type that is not suitable for body text, or long passages of text. Fancy text that is nice for headlines, but not something you would ever see used in a book or magazine for the actual articles or passages.

yeah, I was looking way to far into it, decorative type, is one part of it I will explain. Pretty much before there was photography there was Type to printers and designers used type as images, a good example of very insparational typography work would be paula schers work http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/scher_poster.jpg - "Best Jazz"