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x-height
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3,385 views
Uppercase (caps)
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Underline (underscore)
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4,588 views
Typography
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2,963 views
Typographer
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2,748 views
Crossbar
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4,233 views
Punctuation
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2,431 views
Character set
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3,234 views
Tabular figures
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3,090 views
Stem
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Condensed
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3,522 views
Point size (type size)
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2,704 views
Point
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2,676 views
Headline
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Ascender
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Transitional (realist)
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Word spacing
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Beak
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Matrix
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3,455 views
Readability
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2,972 views
Italic
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Small Caps
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Calligraphy
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Drop cap
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Orphan
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Bold
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3,613 views
Baseline
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4,757 views
Sans serif [classification]
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Phototypesetting
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Black
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Widow
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Diagonal Stroke
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Hyphen
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Ball terminal
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Anti-aliasing
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Blackletter (Gothic script)
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Lowercase
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5,980 views
Aperture
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Apex
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Counter
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Standard Ligatures (liga)
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Discretionary Ligatures (dlig)
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Cap height
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Descender
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Binocular g
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Ear
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Sort
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Face
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3,079 views
Nick
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3,081 views
Body (Shank)
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Shoulder [Metal Type]
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Groove
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Bracket
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Color
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4,873 views
Weight
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Composing stick
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Dash
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2,872 views
Display Font
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Diacritical Mark
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Double-storey a
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Single-storey a
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Unicase (unicameral alphabet)
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Ellipsis
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Typeface
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3,464 views
Font
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3,908 views
Em (Square)
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Em dash
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4,882 views
En dash
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4,583 views
Flush left (ragged right)
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Flush right (ragged left)
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3,364 views
Centered [text alignment]
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3,374 views
Justified
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2,833 views
Didone (Modern)
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3,886 views
Glyph
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4,396 views
Grades
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3,955 views
Hanging indent (negative indent)
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Hinting
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3,413 views
Hot metal typesetting
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5,020 views
Hook (arch)
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Ink trap
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5,138 views
Kerning
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3,227 views
Keyboard layout
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2,395 views
Latin script (Roman script)
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3,184 views
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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2,635 views
Letter
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Letterpress [printing]
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Ligature
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Lining figures
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Oldstyle figures
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Optical sizes
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Overshoot
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Proportional Figures
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Pull quote
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Punchcutting
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Script [Writing System]
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Script [type style]
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