Typography Terms Glossary

228 terms

Underline (underscore)
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Diacritical Mark
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Ball terminal
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Compositor (Typesetter)
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Terminal
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Beak
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x-height
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Letterpress [printing]
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Ascender
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Descender
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Tail
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Vignette
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Apex
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Ellipsis
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Uppercase (caps)
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Widow
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vacat page
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Ear
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Slash
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Character set
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Keyboard layout
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Typography
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Cyma
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Bodkin
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Orphan
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Slab Serif [classification]
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Serif [anatomy]
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Extended
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Color
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Printer’s mark
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White space
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Frontispiece
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Point size (type size)
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Condensed
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Optical sizes
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Chase
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Punch
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Point
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Aperture
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Strikethrough (strikeout)
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Platen
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Foundry type
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Type foundry
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En dash
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En
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Baseline
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Block gauge
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Bed
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Monolinear
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Blackletter (Gothic script)
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Script [Writing System]
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Script [type style]
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Em dash
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Stress
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Hardcover
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Book cover
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Word spacing
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Shoulder [Metal Type]
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Style
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Face
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Headline
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Matrix
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Front matter
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Gutter or alley
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At sign
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Hook (arch)
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Typographer
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Lettering
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Swash
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Letter
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Typometer
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Discretionary Ligatures (dlig)
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Standard Ligatures (liga)
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Ligature
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Catchword [book]
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Italic
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Typeface
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Crossbar
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Stem
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Fore edge
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Super family
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Colophon
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Character encoding
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Printing block
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Kerning
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Type case
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Sort
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Endband
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Small Caps
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River
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Calligraphy
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Flush right (ragged left)
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Flush left (ragged right)
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Centered [text alignment]
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Justified
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Punctuation
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Leading [Letterpress typesetting]
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Drop cap
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Hinting
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Spine [Book]
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