Typography Terms Glossary

228 terms

vacat page
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Ink knife
0 comments 775 views
Inking plate
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Copyholder
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Type design
0 comments 930 views
Type designer
0 comments 884 views
Serif [classification]
0 comments 1,293 views
Hairline
0 comments 1,806 views
Quads
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Line spacing
2 comments 1,604 views
Lead & slug
0 comments 2,731 views
Glottal stop
1 comment 1,375 views
Roller Setting Gauge
0 comments 1,253 views
Thread counter
0 comments 1,565 views
Plakadur
0 comments 1,284 views
Logographic Printing
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Tympan
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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
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Title page
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Hardcover
0 comments 2,010 views
Paperback
0 comments 1,602 views
Softcover
0 comments 2,046 views
[Book] edges
0 comments 2,367 views
Book cover
0 comments 2,010 views
Half title
2 comments 2,067 views
Ampersand
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Asterisk
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At sign
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Text block [book]
0 comments 1,856 views
Fore edge
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Spine [Book]
0 comments 1,842 views
Tailband
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Headband
0 comments 1,676 views
Endband
0 comments 2,625 views
Catchword [book]
0 comments 2,491 views
Endpaper
0 comments 2,022 views
Free endpaper
0 comments 2,043 views
Pastedown endpaper
0 comments 1,762 views
Hyphen
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Guillemets (French quotes)
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r rotunda
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Frontispiece
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Front matter
0 comments 2,611 views
Vignette
0 comments 2,274 views
Monospaced
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Monolinear
0 comments 2,186 views
Slug (Linotype)
0 comments 2,785 views
Punchcutter
0 comments 2,848 views
Printing block
0 comments 2,211 views
Composing rule
2 comments 3,434 views
Character width
0 comments 3,136 views
Platen
0 comments 2,249 views
Bed
0 comments 2,842 views
Distribute, break up
0 comments 2,383 views
Type foundry
0 comments 2,406 views
Imposing stone or table
0 comments 2,315 views
Block gauge
1 comment 2,495 views
Type height gauge
1 comment 2,097 views
Lino-slug cutter
0 comments 1,881 views
Planer
0 comments 2,268 views
Oil stone
0 comments 1,686 views
Quadrat-high
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Type-high
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Letter-board cabinet
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Galley rack
0 comments 3,243 views
Typometer
0 comments 2,686 views
Ink ball
0 comments 2,530 views
En
2 comments 3,600 views
Petite caps
0 comments 4,198 views
Backslanted (reverse italic)
0 comments 4,932 views
Galley Proof Press
0 comments 3,754 views
Furniture
1 comment 2,823 views
Quoin key
0 comments 2,400 views
Quoins
0 comments 2,617 views
Chase
0 comments 3,490 views
Hand mould
0 comments 3,025 views
Bodkin
0 comments 3,808 views
Cyma
2 comments 3,695 views
Variable fonts
0 comments 2,131 views
Typographer
2 comments 2,584 views
Calligraphy
0 comments 2,945 views
Lettering
0 comments 3,452 views
Character encoding
0 comments 2,839 views
Character set
0 comments 2,998 views
Extended
0 comments 4,008 views
Condensed
0 comments 3,314 views
Black
0 comments 2,460 views
Semibold
0 comments 2,015 views
Light
0 comments 4,446 views
Bold
0 comments 3,390 views
Spacing material
0 comments 2,362 views
Galley
0 comments 3,985 views