A sharpening tool for scissors, scythes, knives, razors, chisels and so on.

The body text or body copy is the text forming the main content of designs (like ads) or entire publications (like magazines, books and so on).

A horizontal stroke of a letter.

A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together and protect the pages of a book.

A font with a stroke weight bigger than what would be considered “normal” or “regular”.

The practice, action, or system of inserting points or other small marks into texts, in order to aid interpretation; division of text into sentences, clauses, etc.

In the context of letterforms, hairlines are the thinnest strokes within a letter.

The space between columns.

A book with stiff boards that is bound and covered in materials such as cloth, paper, or leather.

In typesetting by hand compositing, a sort is a piece of type representing a particular letter or symbol.

The point is the default unit of measure in typography, used for example to define the size of type. In digital typography the point is defined as 1⁄72 or 0.0138 of the international inch.

The title page of a book (or other written work) is the page at or near the front which displays its title and usually additional information like author's/editor's name, the publisher and the place and date of publication.

An ear-like stroke, which usually only appears in the design of a double-story g.

An endpaper is a folded sheet of paper having one leaf pasted flat against the inside of the front or back cover of a book and the other pasted at the base to the first or last page.

Phototypesetting was a method of setting type, that was used in the second half of the 20th century. Light is projected through a negative of the glyph and exposes photosensitive film or paper.

A frontispiece is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book’s title page.

Processes which are supposed to optimize the output of glyphs on a rasterized grid (e.g. screen).

In the field of typography, color refers to the perceived density of type on its background. It is mainly dependent on the type design (e.g. the weight of the font), but also the typesetting parameters (e.g. tracking, line-spacing).

A bodkin is a piercing tool used in hand typesetting for extracting a piece of type from a form.

The physical or virtual width of a glyph/character.