Typography Terms Glossary

228 terms

Type designer
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Type design
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Character width
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Bodkin
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Color
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Hinting
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Frontispiece
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Phototypesetting
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Endpaper
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Ear
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Tracking (letter-spacing)
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Title page
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Point
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Sort
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Typography
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Typographer
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Hardcover
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Gutter or alley
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Hairline
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Type foundry
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Orphan
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Script [type style]
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Cap height
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Keyboard layout
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Punctuation
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Bold
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Script [Writing System]
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Book cover
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Crossbar
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Body text
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Oil stone
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[Book] edges
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Backslanted (reverse italic)
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Body (Shank)
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Descender
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Underline (underscore)
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Weight
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Style
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Desktop Publishing
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Bracket
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Compositor (Typesetter)
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Composing rule
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Character encoding
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Monospaced
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Ellipsis
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Oldstyle figures
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Logographic Printing
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Baseline
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Ligature
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Latin script (Roman script)
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Catchword [book]
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Italic
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Slash
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En dash
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River
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Spine [Book]
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Ink trap
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At sign
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Colophon
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Text block [book]
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Printing block
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Kerning
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Endband
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Ball terminal
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Small Caps
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Calligraphy
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Leading [Letterpress typesetting]
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Printer’s mark
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Asterisk
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Serif [anatomy]
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Headline
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Black
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Em dash
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Diacritical Mark
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Dash
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Hyphen
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Sans serif [classification]
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Glyph
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x-height
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Letterpress [printing]
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Justified
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Centered [text alignment]
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Flush right (ragged left)
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Flush left (ragged right)
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Counter
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Apex
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Ascender
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Beak
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Composing stick
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Widow
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Variable fonts
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Drop cap
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Letter
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Slab Serif [classification]
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Aperture
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Anti-aliasing
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Ampersand
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Half title
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Paragraph rule
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Blackletter (Gothic script)
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