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Typography (Etymology: typos—type, graphos—written) is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters (tracking) and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning). read more..

July 9, 2008 Some fish really suck: Here, Balloon lumpfish (Eumicrotremus pacificus) cling to a balloon at the Epson Shinagawa Aqua Stadium in Tokyo. Ventral sucker disks allow the deep-sea fish to cling to rocks.

June 6, 2008 Tear gas canisters rain down on demonstrators in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, protesting Israel's erection of a separation barrier.

June 4, 2008 Sometimes those free ringside VIP seats offer more than you were hoping for. Here, former Madrid mayor Jose Maria Alvarez del Manzano (second from left) and some friends get a close up look at what being on the wrong side of the bull can really mean.

June 3, 2008 A miner extracts sulphur from the Kawah Ijen volcanic crater in East Java. The sulphur is put to use in sugar refineries and in cosmetics, medicines and explosives.

May 8, 2008 A boy in Indonesia prepares to siphon off fuel from a container. At the time, oil prices were reaching record highs.

May 2, 2008 An Iraqi boy looks on skeptically as he is dwarfed by a US soldier in Baghdad.