Typography Terms Glossary

228 terms

Inking plate
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Italic
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Justified
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Kerning
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Keyboard layout
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Latin script (Roman script)
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Lead & slug
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Leading [Letterpress typesetting]
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Left sidebearing
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Leg
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Legibility
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Letter
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Letter-board cabinet
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Lettering
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Letterpress [printing]
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Letterpress cabinet
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Ligature
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Light
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Line spacing
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Lining figures
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Lino-slug cutter
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Logographic Printing
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Lower lobe
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Lowercase
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Matrix
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Mixed case
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Monolinear
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Monospaced
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Moveable type
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Nick
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Oil stone
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Oldstyle figures
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Optical sizes
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Orphan
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Overshoot
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Page cord
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Paperback
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Paragraph rule
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Pastedown endpaper
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Petite caps
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Phototypesetting
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Plakadur
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Planer
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Platen
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Point
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Point size (type size)
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Printer’s mark
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Printing block
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Proportional Figures
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Pull quote
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Punch
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Punchcutter
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Punchcutting
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Punctuation
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Quadrat-high
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Quads
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Quoin key
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Quoins
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r rotunda
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Readability
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Right sidebearing
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River
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Roller Setting Gauge
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Roman (upright)
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Sans serif [classification]
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Script [type style]
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Script [Writing System]
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Semibold
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Serif [anatomy]
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Serif [classification]
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Shoulder [Metal Type]
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Single-storey a
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Slab Serif [classification]
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Slash
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Slug (Linotype)
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Small Caps
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Softcover
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Sort
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Spacing
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Spacing material
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Spine [Book]
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Spur
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Standard Ligatures (liga)
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Standing matter
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Stem
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Stereotype
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Stress
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Strikethrough (strikeout)
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Stroke contrast
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Style
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Super family
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Swash
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Tabular figures
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Tail
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Tailband
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Tapered centring
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Terminal
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Text block [book]
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Thread counter
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Title page
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