Typography Terms Glossary

228 terms

[Book] edges
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Ampersand
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Anti-aliasing
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Aperture
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Apex
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Ascender
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Asterisk
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At sign
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Backslanted (reverse italic)
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Ball terminal
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Baseline
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Beak
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Bed
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Binocular g
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Black
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Blackletter (Gothic script)
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Block gauge
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Bodkin
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Body (Shank)
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Body text
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Bold
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Book cover
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Bracket
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Calligraphy
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Cap height
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Case Sensitive Forms
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Catchword [book]
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Centered [text alignment]
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Character encoding
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Character set
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Character width
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Chase
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Colophon
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Color
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Composing rule
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Composing stick
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Compositor (Typesetter)
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Condensed
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Copyholder
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Counter
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Crossbar
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Cyma
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Dash
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Descender
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Desktop Publishing
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Diacritical Mark
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Diagonal Stroke
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Didone (Modern)
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Discretionary Ligatures (dlig)
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Display Font
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Distribute, break up
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Double-storey a
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Drop cap
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Ear
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Ellipsis
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Em (Square)
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Em dash
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En
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En dash
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Endband
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Endpaper
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Extended
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Face
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Flong or mat
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Flush left (ragged right)
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Flush right (ragged left)
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Font
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Fore edge
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Foundry type
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Free endpaper
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Front matter
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Frontispiece
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Furniture
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Galley
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Galley Proof Press
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Galley rack
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Garalde (Aldine)
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Glottal stop
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Glyph
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Grades
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Groove
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Guillemets (French quotes)
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Gutter or alley
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Hairline
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Half title
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Hand composition
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Hand mould
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Hanging indent (negative indent)
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Hardcover
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Headband
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Headline
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Hinting
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Hook (arch)
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Hot metal typesetting
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Humanist (Venetian)
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Hyphen
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Imposing stone or table
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Ink ball
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Ink knife
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Ink trap
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