Ink trap | Definition and Translations

Term overview

• • [Book] edges
  • Ampersand
  • Anti-aliasing
  • Aperture
  • Apex
  • Ascender
  • Asterisk
  • At sign
  • Backslanted (reverse italic)
  • Ball terminal
  • Baseline
  • Beak
  • Bed
  • Binocular g
  • Black
  • Blackletter (Gothic script)
  • Block gauge
  • Bodkin
  • Body (Shank)
  • Body text
  • Bold
  • Book cover
  • Bracket
  • Calligraphy
  • Cap height
  • Case Sensitive Forms
  • Catchword [book]
  • Centered [text alignment]
  • Character encoding
  • Character set
  • Character width
  • Chase
  • Colophon
  • Color
  • Composing rule
  • Composing stick
  • Compositor (Typesetter)
  • Condensed
  • Copyholder
  • Counter
  • Crossbar
  • Cyma
  • Dash
  • Descender
  • Desktop Publishing
  • Diacritical Mark
  • Diagonal Stroke
  • Didone (Modern)
  • Discretionary Ligatures (dlig)
  • Display Font
  • Distribute, break up
  • Double-storey a
  • Drop cap
  • Ear
  • Ellipsis
  • Em (Square)
  • Em dash
  • En
  • En dash
  • Endband
  • Endpaper
  • Extended
  • Face
  • Flong or mat
  • Flush left (ragged right)
  • Flush right (ragged left)
  • Font
  • Fore edge
  • Foundry type
  • Free endpaper
  • Front matter
  • Frontispiece
  • Furniture
  • Galley
  • Galley Proof Press
  • Galley rack
  • Garalde (Aldine)
  • Glottal stop
  • Glyph
  • Grades
  • Groove
  • Guillemets (French quotes)
  • Gutter or alley
  • Hairline
  • Half title
  • Hand composition
  • Hand mould
  • Hanging indent (negative indent)
  • Hardcover
  • Headband
  • Headline
  • Hinting
  • Hook (arch)
  • Hot metal typesetting
  • Humanist (Venetian)
  • Hyphen
  • Imposing stone or table
  • Ink ball
  • Ink knife
  • Ink trap
  • Inking plate
  • Inline
  • Italic
  • Justified
  • Kerning
  • Keyboard layout
  • Latin script (Roman script)
  • Lead & slug
  • Leading [Letterpress typesetting]
  • Left sidebearing
  • Leg
  • Legibility
  • Letter
  • Letter-board cabinet
  • Lettering
  • Letterpress [printing]
  • Letterpress cabinet
  • Ligature
  • Light
  • Line spacing
  • Lining figures
  • Lino-slug cutter
  • Logographic Printing
  • Lower lobe
  • Lowercase
  • Matrix
  • Mixed case
  • Monolinear
  • Monospaced
  • Moveable type
  • Nick
  • Oil stone
  • Oldstyle figures
  • Optical sizes
  • Orphan
  • Overshoot
  • Page cord
  • Paperback
  • Paragraph rule
  • Pastedown endpaper
  • Petite caps
  • Phototypesetting
  • Plakadur
  • Planer
  • Platen
  • Point
  • Point size (type size)
  • Printer’s mark
  • Printing block
  • Proportional Figures
  • Pull quote
  • Punch
  • Punchcutter
  • Punchcutting
  • Punctuation
  • Quadrat-high
  • Quads
  • Quoin key
  • Quoins
  • r rotunda
  • Readability
  • Right sidebearing
  • River
  • Roller Setting Gauge
  • Roman (upright)
  • Sans serif [classification]
  • Script [type style]
  • Script [Writing System]
  • Semibold
  • Serif [anatomy]
  • Serif [classification]
  • Shoulder [Metal Type]
  • Single-storey a
  • Slab Serif [classification]
  • Slash
  • Slug (Linotype)
  • Small Caps
  • Softcover
  • Sort
  • Spacing
  • Spacing material
  • Spine [Book]
  • Spur
  • Standard Ligatures (liga)
  • Standing matter
  • Stem
  • Stencil font
  • Stereotype
  • Straight matter
  • Stress
  • Strikethrough (strikeout)
  • Stroke contrast
  • Style
  • Super family
  • Swash
  • Tabular figures
  • Tail
  • Tailband
  • Tapered centring
  • Terminal
  • Text block [book]
  • Thread counter
  • Title page
  • Tracking (letter-spacing)
  • Transitional (realist)
  • Tympan
  • Type case
  • Type design
  • Type designer
  • Type founder
  • Type foundry
  • Type height gauge
  • Type specimen
  • Type-high
  • Typeface
  • Typographer
  • Typography
  • Typometer
  • Underline (underscore)
  • Unicase (unicameral alphabet)
  • Upper lobe
  • Uppercase (caps)
  • vacat page
  • Variable fonts
  • Vignette
  • Waist
  • Weight
  • White space
  • Widow
  • Word spacing
  • x-height