Any book with a cover made from flexible materials such as paper, cloth, leather, or vellum.
German: Broschur
Related Term(s): Paperback
By
Ralf Herrmann ()
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Term overview
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- [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
- 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
- Stereotype
- 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
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