Definitions

Typography II, Journal: Jan 20, Part 2

Series: A number of books that are published as a group because of a common author or theme (or for no reason at all). Books in a series are usually designed to look similar in some way as well.

Sequence: ?

Sign: The broad heading under which icon, symbol and index fall. Basically, a sign is something that indicates or leads one's thoughts to another or many other things.

Icon: An image that represents something in a very literal, straight forward way. The bell in the Taco Bell logo represents a bell.

Index: Uses a sensory pattern or signal to, by frequent correlation, indicate something else--often a cause or effect of the signal. For example, dark clouds mean rain, the sound of a bird means there is a bird. Because of the prerequisite that one must be directly experiencing the sensual signals, by the definition of "Icon Index and Symbol: Types of Signs," linked via the class blog, use of index in a book cover is impossible. One could of course use an icon to represent an index, however.

Symbol: An image or word that links to something else arbitrarily. This is the only difference between a symbol and an icon.