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  • Ball terminal | Definition and Translations

    A design feature of a typeface or glyph where the end of a stroke takes a roughly circular shape.

     

    French: Goutte (ou larme suivant la forme)
    German: Tropfenserife
    Italian: Terminazione a goccia/bottone
    Norwegian: Ballterminal
    Polish: ziarno
    Portuguese: Terminal em gota / lágrima
    Russian: капля
    Spanish: terminación en gota/botón
    Turkish: Top Terminal

    Related Term(s): Terminal

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    Contributors: Riccardo Sartori Fernando Díaz CAST Diogo Ramos Moreira Przemysław Sakrajda Frode Helland J-Gineste tipografi Solomon Moses
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