Typography Terms Glossary

228 terms

Guillemets (French quotes)
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Humanist (Venetian)
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Widow
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Galley
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Hyphen
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Dash
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Transitional (realist)
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Headline
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Galley Proof Press
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Typometer
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Typography
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Foundry type
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Body text
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Terminal
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Ball terminal
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Chase
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[Book] edges
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Nick
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Swash
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Condensed
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Letterpress [printing]
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Spur
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Tracking (letter-spacing)
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Gutter or alley
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Word spacing
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Spacing
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Spacing material
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Shoulder [Metal Type]
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Underline (underscore)
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Character set
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Quoins
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Diacritical Mark
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Blackletter (Gothic script)
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Script [Writing System]
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Endpaper
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Bracket
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Em (Square)
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En
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Punch
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Point
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Ellipsis
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Bodkin
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Punctuation
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Weight
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Orphan
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Ear
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Glottal stop
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x-height
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Face
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Tabular figures
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Oldstyle figures
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Lining figures
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Black
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Semibold
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Didone (Modern)
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Lowercase
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Ink ball
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Matrix
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Furniture
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Printer’s mark
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Uppercase (caps)
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Small Caps
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En dash
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Em dash
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Baseline
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Lettering
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Letter
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Legibility
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Readability
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Discretionary Ligatures (dlig)
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Standard Ligatures (liga)
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Ligature
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Extended
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Leading [Letterpress typesetting]
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Line spacing
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Punchcutter
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Punchcutting
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Serif [anatomy]
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Bold
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Glyph
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Justified
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Garalde (Aldine)
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Frontispiece
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Title page
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Phototypesetting
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Hand mould
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Font
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Paragraph rule
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Ampersand
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Desktop Publishing
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Kerning
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Oil stone
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Italic
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Script [type style]
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Body (Shank)
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Point size (type size)
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Book cover
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Counter
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Stroke contrast
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Thread counter
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