Typography Terms Glossary

228 terms

Double-storey a
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Spacing
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Centered [text alignment]
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Lino-slug cutter
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Line spacing
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Punctuation
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Character set
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Character encoding
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x-height
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Word spacing
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Composing stick
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White space
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Roller Setting Gauge
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Endpaper
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Fore edge
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Left sidebearing
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Vignette
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Lining figures
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Cap height
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Humanist (Venetian)
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vacat page
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Underline (underscore)
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Kerning
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Descender
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Tailband
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Lower lobe
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Headline
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Overshoot
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Typometer
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Typography
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Typographer
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Slug (Linotype)
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Ball terminal
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Title page
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Front matter
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Ink trap
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Platen
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Keyboard layout
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Paperback
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Waist
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Tabular figures
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Stroke contrast
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Weight
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Terminal
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Dash
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Glottal stop
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Stereotype
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Punchcutter
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Punchcutting
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Punch
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Galley rack
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Letter-board cabinet
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Standing matter
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Furniture
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Standard Ligatures (liga)
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Stem
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Spur
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Tapered centring
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Nick
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Galley
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Composing rule
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Type case
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Serif [anatomy]
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Pull quote
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Swash
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Tail
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Orphan
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Script [Writing System]
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Super family
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Compositor (Typesetter)
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Style
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Type specimen
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Type foundry
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Point size (type size)
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Type founder
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Type design
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Type designer
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Face
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Typeface
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Script [type style]
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Slash
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Monolinear
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Half title
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Condensed
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Chase
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Imposing stone or table
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Diagonal Stroke
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Apex
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Display Font
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Stress
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Letterpress cabinet
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Type height gauge
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r rotunda
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Lead & slug
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Flush right (ragged left)
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Crossbar
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Quads
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Counter
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Point
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Proportional Figures
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