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VOCABULARY WORD: ANEPIGRAPHICLast week I asked: "QUICK QUIZ: What's the OPPOSITE of typographic? What
do you call a piece with ONLY a design and NO lettering at all?" Here's what our sharp
readers had to say. -Editor
Chip Howell writes: Why not just "graphic"? Pablo Hoffman writes: Some equivalent correlatives of typographic in this context are ideographic, pictographic, or pictorial. Purists among us might hold that the first two of these terms are redundant, since the suffix "-graphic" encompasses both written and pictorial material, but that doesn't disqualify them as answers to your question. Ralf Böpple writes: The word "iconographic" came to my mind. Bob Van Arsdell writes: Coins without legends are anepigraphic. Celtic coins without legends are uninscribed. Correct! Paul Bosco also had the answer Dick Johnson suggests: anepigraphic.
-Editor
Pablo Hoffman writes: That was my next answer, but I ran out of electrons. To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
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