Typography Terms Glossary

228 terms

vacat page
0 comments 672 views
Ink knife
0 comments 930 views
Inking plate
0 comments 671 views
Copyholder
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Type design
0 comments 1,024 views
Type designer
0 comments 969 views
Serif [classification]
0 comments 1,446 views
Hairline
0 comments 2,003 views
Quads
0 comments 2,199 views
Line spacing
2 comments 1,732 views
Lead & slug
0 comments 3,035 views
Glottal stop
1 comment 1,501 views
Roller Setting Gauge
0 comments 1,363 views
Thread counter
0 comments 1,640 views
Plakadur
0 comments 1,384 views
Logographic Printing
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Tympan
0 comments 2,598 views
Stereotype
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Flong or mat
0 comments 4,038 views
Type founder
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Drop cap
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Hand composition
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Desktop Publishing
0 comments 2,744 views
Page cord
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Colophon
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Printer’s mark
0 comments 1,852 views
Title page
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Hardcover
0 comments 2,092 views
Paperback
0 comments 1,711 views
Softcover
0 comments 2,153 views
[Book] edges
0 comments 2,513 views
Book cover
0 comments 2,122 views
Half title
2 comments 2,158 views
Ampersand
0 comments 4,634 views
Asterisk
0 comments 4,163 views
At sign
0 comments 4,823 views
Text block [book]
0 comments 1,969 views
Fore edge
0 comments 2,124 views
Spine [Book]
0 comments 1,941 views
Tailband
0 comments 1,567 views
Headband
0 comments 1,766 views
Endband
0 comments 2,728 views
Catchword [book]
0 comments 2,675 views
Endpaper
0 comments 2,144 views
Free endpaper
0 comments 2,201 views
Pastedown endpaper
0 comments 1,859 views
Hyphen
0 comments 3,459 views
Guillemets (French quotes)
0 comments 3,033 views
r rotunda
0 comments 2,051 views
Frontispiece
0 comments 2,754 views
Front matter
0 comments 2,721 views
Vignette
0 comments 2,379 views
Monospaced
0 comments 2,583 views
Monolinear
0 comments 2,286 views
Slug (Linotype)
0 comments 2,919 views
Punchcutter
0 comments 2,997 views
Printing block
0 comments 2,322 views
Composing rule
2 comments 3,572 views
Character width
0 comments 3,230 views
Platen
0 comments 2,381 views
Bed
0 comments 2,956 views
Distribute, break up
0 comments 2,471 views
Type foundry
0 comments 2,518 views
Imposing stone or table
0 comments 2,414 views
Block gauge
1 comment 2,606 views
Type height gauge
1 comment 2,267 views
Lino-slug cutter
0 comments 1,978 views
Planer
0 comments 2,361 views
Oil stone
0 comments 1,761 views
Quadrat-high
0 comments 2,445 views
Type-high
0 comments 2,742 views
Letter-board cabinet
0 comments 2,288 views
Galley rack
0 comments 3,375 views
Typometer
0 comments 2,804 views
Ink ball
0 comments 2,630 views
En
2 comments 3,700 views
Petite caps
0 comments 4,492 views
Backslanted (reverse italic)
0 comments 5,077 views
Galley Proof Press
0 comments 3,900 views
Furniture
1 comment 2,941 views
Quoin key
0 comments 2,509 views
Quoins
0 comments 2,728 views
Chase
0 comments 3,768 views
Hand mould
0 comments 3,135 views
Bodkin
0 comments 3,963 views
Cyma
2 comments 3,805 views
Variable fonts
0 comments 2,216 views
Typographer
2 comments 2,685 views
Calligraphy
0 comments 3,092 views
Lettering
0 comments 3,570 views
Character encoding
0 comments 2,968 views
Character set
0 comments 3,131 views
Extended
0 comments 4,180 views
Condensed
0 comments 3,446 views
Black
0 comments 2,559 views
Semibold
0 comments 2,110 views
Light
0 comments 4,632 views
Bold
0 comments 3,541 views
Spacing material
0 comments 2,513 views
Galley
0 comments 4,142 views