Logographic printing was a form of moveable type printing where the font contained words or parts of words rather than single letters. The logographic type was used in the same way as the common letterpress ligatures. The difference was the purpose of using letter combinations specifically to speed up the typesetting process. But with hundreds of compartments in a typecase, logographic typesetting was also very challenging. The system never came into broad use.

Plakadur was a brand name for a resin-based material used for display letters of the Berthold AG in the 20th century as an alternative to wood type.

A thread counter or linen tester is a magnifying tool, where the lens is mounted at a fixed distance above the object being put under the tool. It was originally invented to check the quality of woven fabrics. But it also became a common tool in the printing industry.

A tool used for letterpress printing to set the rollers to the correct height.

A glyph to represent glottal stop or glottal plosive.

Smaller (leads) or thicker (slugs) strips used as spacing material in letterpress printing, especially to to increase the line height.

Line spacing, interline spacing, line height or leading is the distance between the baselines of successive lines of type. The term leading has its roots in letterpress printing where it referred to the lead strips added between the lines.

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

Serif is a font classification category, which includes fonts having serifs (i.e. small strokes regularly attached to the end of a larger strokes).

A drop cap or initial is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text.

The distance between the baseline and the upper part of lowercase letters that don’t have ascenders.

The at sign was originally an accounting and commercial invoice abbreviation meaning “at a rate of”. Today it is also used in email address and on social media platforms.

Lettering refers the act, art, or technique of inscribing letters on to something or the letters created in such a way. In the field of professional graphic design, lettering is understood as one of three technique to create textual information beside calligraphy (“writing”) and typography (“typesetting”).

In typography, style refers to the individual members of a type family, e.g. regular, italic, bold.