Typography Terms Glossary

228 terms

vacat page
0 comments 748 views
Ink knife
0 comments 998 views
Inking plate
0 comments 739 views
Copyholder
0 comments 985 views
Type design
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Type designer
0 comments 1,025 views
Serif [classification]
0 comments 1,516 views
Hairline
0 comments 2,119 views
Quads
0 comments 2,305 views
Line spacing
2 comments 1,798 views
Lead & slug
0 comments 3,124 views
Glottal stop
1 comment 1,573 views
Roller Setting Gauge
0 comments 1,440 views
Thread counter
0 comments 1,705 views
Plakadur
0 comments 1,450 views
Logographic Printing
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Tympan
0 comments 2,669 views
Stereotype
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Flong or mat
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Type founder
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Drop cap
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Hand composition
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Desktop Publishing
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Page cord
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Colophon
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Printer’s mark
0 comments 1,918 views
Title page
0 comments 1,973 views
Hardcover
0 comments 2,165 views
Paperback
0 comments 1,782 views
Softcover
0 comments 2,219 views
[Book] edges
0 comments 2,607 views
Book cover
0 comments 2,205 views
Half title
2 comments 2,233 views
Ampersand
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Asterisk
0 comments 4,262 views
At sign
0 comments 4,911 views
Text block [book]
0 comments 2,049 views
Fore edge
0 comments 2,189 views
Spine [Book]
0 comments 2,014 views
Tailband
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Headband
0 comments 1,835 views
Endband
0 comments 2,797 views
Catchword [book]
0 comments 2,759 views
Endpaper
0 comments 2,238 views
Free endpaper
0 comments 2,281 views
Pastedown endpaper
0 comments 1,930 views
Hyphen
0 comments 3,548 views
Guillemets (French quotes)
0 comments 3,117 views
r rotunda
0 comments 2,123 views
Frontispiece
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Front matter
0 comments 2,796 views
Vignette
0 comments 2,446 views
Monospaced
0 comments 2,664 views
Monolinear
0 comments 2,363 views
Slug (Linotype)
0 comments 3,008 views
Punchcutter
0 comments 3,087 views
Printing block
0 comments 2,385 views
Composing rule
2 comments 3,660 views
Character width
0 comments 3,293 views
Platen
0 comments 2,463 views
Bed
0 comments 3,036 views
Distribute, break up
0 comments 2,549 views
Type foundry
0 comments 2,594 views
Imposing stone or table
0 comments 2,485 views
Block gauge
1 comment 2,676 views
Type height gauge
1 comment 2,330 views
Lino-slug cutter
0 comments 2,039 views
Planer
0 comments 2,435 views
Oil stone
0 comments 1,818 views
Quadrat-high
0 comments 2,508 views
Type-high
0 comments 2,814 views
Letter-board cabinet
0 comments 2,362 views
Galley rack
0 comments 3,450 views
Typometer
0 comments 2,887 views
Ink ball
0 comments 2,711 views
En
2 comments 3,778 views
Petite caps
0 comments 4,600 views
Backslanted (reverse italic)
0 comments 5,185 views
Galley Proof Press
0 comments 3,985 views
Furniture
1 comment 3,024 views
Quoin key
0 comments 2,587 views
Quoins
0 comments 2,805 views
Chase
0 comments 3,856 views
Hand mould
0 comments 3,207 views
Bodkin
0 comments 4,062 views
Cyma
2 comments 3,892 views
Variable fonts
0 comments 2,282 views
Typographer
2 comments 2,748 views
Calligraphy
0 comments 3,171 views
Lettering
0 comments 3,641 views
Character encoding
0 comments 3,054 views
Character set
0 comments 3,234 views
Extended
0 comments 4,277 views
Condensed
0 comments 3,522 views
Black
0 comments 2,630 views
Semibold
0 comments 2,176 views
Light
0 comments 4,712 views
Bold
0 comments 3,613 views
Spacing material
0 comments 2,589 views
Galley
0 comments 4,238 views