I am trying to find one word to say one thing but cannot. Let's see:
I've tried googling for one font that has this feature but I have not managed to so far. Can someone please help?
7 Answers
Either of these might work:
- The third letter is sideways.
- The third letter is rotated 90 degrees.
I suppose you could also say:
- The third letter is tilted at a right angle.
but I don’t think you’ll have as much luck with that one on Google.
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3Yes, these. Note that for the second, you might want to say rotated 90 degrees clockwise if you need to be very precise (e.g. if you're trying to describe a graphic that you need reproduced) and could also just say rotated if you don't need much precision at all, as most folks will assume a rotation of approximately 90° if you don't specify (in very loose terms, more than that would be upside down and less would be tilted).– 1006aCommented Nov 27, 2017 at 18:43
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I think most people, in day-to-day speech, would go with the first option (sideways). As @1006a commented, adding "clockwise" (or "counter-clockwise"/"anti-clockwise") makes option 2 the most precise -- tells which "sideways" it is, and by how much (exactly 90 degrees). I wouldn't normally use "tilted" unless referring to something that's rotated less than 90 degrees, and probably only less than 45 degrees: the point at which the letter becomes more "sideways" than "upright".– Doktor JCommented Nov 28, 2017 at 14:25
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The first option is what Wikipedia says, claiming to be based on the Unicode standard. I haven't independently verified this. Commented Nov 28, 2017 at 14:55
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@JonasB - I don't think horizontal is a good suggestion. This picture explains why.– J.R. ♦Commented Nov 28, 2017 at 21:30
The official language in the Unicode Consortium uses the terms “sideways” and the detailed description “displayed sideways, rotated 90 degrees clockwise”. I'm sure they spent a lot of time arguing over the best words to use!
The simple adjective sideways is understandable without confusion. The description rotated clockwise is unambiguous with respect to which side.
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6"The description rotated clockwise is unambiguous." It's extremely ambiguous if you don't specify a degree of rotation– KevinCommented Nov 27, 2017 at 13:11
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4@Kevin "Rotate left" and "right" are pretty standard terms in graphics editing programs, and they don't need to specify 90° to be unambiguous. Commented Nov 27, 2017 at 20:17
That would be a sideways A. Not a perfect way to say it, but I think it will work in this case.
answered Nov 26, 2017 at 22:59
One way of describing this would be to say "A is on its side"
It might be good to include what direction it's rotated: "Rotated 90 degrees clockwise."
It's a form of a vertical font or vertical typography. Vertical typography can have the characters 'upright', but the text is printed vertically. A variant is to print the words rotated 90 degrees to the right or left.
To say it colloquially, you could say "The capital letter A is lying down" or a similar phrase that implies resting or sleeping.
The visual image of that might help cross linguistic boundries.
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