Name the dot on lower case i and j

kristin11 February 2009 · 14:09

Has anyone heard of a term other than "dot" for the dot that occurs above the lower case i and j?

I've been asked if there was an "official" term and I know of none.

Perhaps we can invent a new "official" term. Then we can claim special knowledge of it.

And to make this even more open-ended, I want to pass along the fact that here at Megacorporation, the registration mark is commonly referred to as an "R-ball". For some reason, however, a copyright symbol is not referred to as a "C-ball."

Kristin

Eric Doctor11 February 2009 · 14:12

Tittle.

guifa11 February 2009 · 14:13

It's called a tittle.

«El futuro es una línea tan fina que apenas nos damos cuenta de pintarla nosotros mismos». (La Luz Oscura, por Javier Guerrero)

Wesley.Bancroft11 February 2009 · 14:50

Can also be referred to as a Jot:

Jot / N. Gr.

The name of the letter, ex. i.
The smallest letter of the Greek alphabet.
An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle.

Although a Jot usually is referring to the whole character.

paragraph11 February 2009 · 14:55

What about dotaccent and dotlessi?

Charles Ellertson11 February 2009 · 17:42

Sometimes a dotaccent is just a dotaccent.

Si_Daniels11 February 2009 · 18:04

Nice book, shame about the tittle...

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/dot-everything/?hp

Si_Daniels11 February 2009 · 18:19

This is intriguing...

http://desktoppublishingforum.com/bb/archive/index.php?t-468.html

>I just got permission from Matthew Carter to reprint his small essay on “tittle,”

Wonder if anyone is familiar with it?

Dan Gayle12 February 2009 · 09:08

I giggle a little whenever you use that word...

Ricardo Cordoba12 February 2009 · 09:38

Tittle on Wikipedia. A tittle-ating entry.

And from my Mac's dictionary:

kristin12 February 2009 · 09:59

Thanks everyone! I'm feeling so entittled!

Ricardo Cordoba12 February 2009 · 14:58

It's nice to see that Megacorporation has Typographers on staff. Other places don't have those anymore!

will powers12 February 2009 · 15:21

Kristin:

We should stick with "dot" and leave "tittle" to purists and jargon mavens.

I mean: why should we have to say or write "tittlelessi" when we can use "dotlessi"? For another thing, "tittlelessi" looks like the name of a Greek or Bulgarian cheese I could buy at Spiro's up there on University Avenue.

I had not bothered to see who made that first post until I saw Ricardo refer to "Megacorporation." Then I knew it was you. Cheers from across the river.

powers

speter12 February 2009 · 15:59

You have to target your comments...

Ricardo Cordoba13 February 2009 · 06:36

I think that I'm with Will on this... See an earlier thread about the use of the terms "majuscules" and "minuscules":

http://typophile.com/node/48544

Florian Hardwig15 February 2009 · 15:32

Name the dot on lower case i and j

To me, it’s just a half-assed umlaut.

paragraph15 February 2009 · 16:11

Beautiful, Florian :)

Si_Daniels15 February 2009 · 16:30

On Florian has the balls to call it how it is.

David Berlow17 February 2009 · 07:43

"Name the dot on lower case i and j"
I was thinking the i-dot would be Claire, the j-dot Buzz, then on the next face, who knows, Armstrong and Jackie, or Nick and Nack.

Cheers!

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