Typography Terms Glossary

228 terms

Printer’s mark
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Colophon
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Fore edge
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Copyholder
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Spine [Book]
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Page cord
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Endband
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Headband
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Tailband
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Typeface
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Typography
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Font
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Uppercase (caps)
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Lowercase
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Blackletter (Gothic script)
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Anti-aliasing
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Aperture
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Apex
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Discretionary Ligatures (dlig)
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Ascender
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Baseline
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Cap height
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Descender
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Face
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Nick
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Groove
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Color
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Weight
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Composing stick
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Crossbar
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Dash
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Diacritical Mark
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Unicase (unicameral alphabet)
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Em (Square)
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Em dash
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En dash
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Glyph
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Grades
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Headline
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Hinting
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Hot metal typesetting
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Ink trap
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Italic
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Kerning
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Keyboard layout
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Leading [Letterpress typesetting]
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Left sidebearing
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Right sidebearing
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Leg
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Legibility
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Letter
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Letterpress [printing]
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Lining figures
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Orphan
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Widow
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Point
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Proportional Figures
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Tabular figures
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Pull quote
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Punchcutting
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Readability
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Sans serif [classification]
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Script [Writing System]
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Script [type style]
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Serif [anatomy]
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Slab Serif [classification]
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Small Caps
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Spacing
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Spur
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Strikethrough (strikeout)
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Stroke contrast
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Style
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Super family
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Terminal
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Tracking (letter-spacing)
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Type specimen
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Type case
1 comment 4,580 views
Moveable type
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Foundry type
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Underline (underscore)
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Word spacing
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Compositor (Typesetter)
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Punch
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Matrix
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Standing matter
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Letterpress cabinet
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Body text
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Galley
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Spacing material
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Bold
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Light
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Semibold
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Black
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Condensed
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Extended
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Character set
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Character encoding
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Lettering
0 comments 3,641 views
Calligraphy
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Typographer
2 comments 2,748 views