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April 14

Typographical device using bold and regular without whitespace.

I have increasingly been made aware of a curious typographical device whereby two words are joined together to remove the whitespace between them, as in CamelCase, but instead of using a capital letter to delineate the separate words they are formatted alternately in bold and regular weights, consider the example below, from the logotype of the company Kids Unlimited:

• Original — Kids Unlimited
• CamelCase — KidsUnlimited
• bold/regular — kidsunlimited

I have seen many more examples of this device in use, but the one shown is the only one I can immediately recall. Is there a name for such a thing? -=# Amos E Wolfe ^talk #=- 06:11, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm verycurious! --Kjoonlee 09:04, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Agreed. Ads do that with words of different color too, not just different fonts. It's very annoying IMO. – b_jonas 10:51, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Dunno, but maybe we can make one up. What about FONTcase, or, more particularly, typefacecase, or typecase? Benyoch (talk) 18:05, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Name by which Venetians referred/refer to outsiders

Is there a Venetian term for visitors to their city? - current/derogatory/historical - doesn't matter which.

Thanks Adambrowne666 (talk) 14:28, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Forèsto is the Venetian word for "foreigner/stranger"[1], but I have no idea if that is used generally to refer to tourists. If no one else responds here you might try the Oracolo. Lesgles (talk) 01:40, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Or the Ciàcołe on the Venetian Wikipedia. --Terfili (talk) 11:35, 17 April 2012 (UTC)