Typography Terms Glossary

228 terms

Typography
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Blackletter (Gothic script)
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Uppercase (caps)
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Lowercase
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Anti-aliasing
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Aperture
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Apex
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Counter
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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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x-height
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Ball terminal
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Beak
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Binocular g
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Ear
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Sort
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Body (Shank)
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Bracket
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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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Display Font
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Diacritical Mark
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Double-storey a
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Unicase (unicameral alphabet)
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Typeface
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Font
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Em dash
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En dash
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Flush left (ragged right)
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Flush right (ragged left)
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Centered [text alignment]
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Justified
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Transitional (realist)
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Didone (Modern)
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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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Hook (arch)
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Ink trap
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Italic
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Kerning
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Latin script (Roman script)
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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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Ligature
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Optical sizes
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Orphan
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Widow
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Overshoot
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Punchcutting
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Punctuation
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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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Spur
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Stem
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Stress
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Stroke contrast
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Tail
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Terminal
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Tracking (letter-spacing)
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Type specimen
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Moveable type
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Foundry type
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Underline (underscore)
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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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Gutter or alley
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River
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Body text
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Bold
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Light
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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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Lettering
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Calligraphy
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Typographer
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Variable fonts
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Bodkin
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Quoins
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