A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Didot Regular A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Perpetua Bold A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Palatino Bold A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Centaur MT Std Bold A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Adobe Caslon Pro Bold A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Garamond Bold A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Georgia Regular a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Optima Bold A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T 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k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Rockwell Bold A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Impact Regular A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Hobeaux Rococeaux A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z American Typewriter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Eagle Lake Regular a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 3 4 TYPOGRAPHY TERMS h ANTI-ALIASING ANTIQUA / ANTIKVA APERTURE APEX ARC ARM ASCENDER ASCENDER LINE AXIS / STRESS BALL TERMINAL BASELINE BEAK BILATERAL SERIF BOWL BRACKET Semi-transparent Serif typefaces The opening of a Point at the top of Curved part of a A stroke that doesn’t On lowercase letters Invisible line marking Invisible line Terminal with a Invisible line on Decorative stroke Serif extending to Fully closed rounded Curved or wedge-like pixels along the designed between partially enclosed a letterform where letterform leading connect to another the vertical stroke the height of all dissecting the glyph circular shape which the letters at the end of the arm both sides of a main part of a letter connection between edges of letterform 16th–17th century counter shape two strokes meet into a straight stem stroke or stem on that extends above ascenders in a font from top to bottom in a font rest of a letter, similar stroke the stem and serif of outlines to smooth (or new designs one or both ends the x-height at its thinnest point to a serif but more some fonts jagged edges following the style) pronounced CAP HEIGHT CONDENSED COUNTER CROSS STROKE CROSSBAR CROTCH CURSIVE DESCENDER DESCENDER LINE DISPLAY FONT EAR EYE FINIAL FLAG FOOT Height of a capital Type style designed An area partially or The horizontal stroke Horizontal stroke Inside angle where Handwriting with Parts of lowercase Invisible line marking Typefaces used Small stroke Enclosed space in a Tapered or curved Horizontal stroke on The part of a stem letter measured from with narrow width entirely enclosed in a across a lowercase ‘t’ like the middle of two strokes meet joined-up letters. letters that extend the lowest part of for large type extending from the lowercase ‘e’ similar end on letters like the figure ‘5’ that rests on the the baseline proportions letterform or symbol or ‘f’ an ‘H’, ‘A’ and ‘e’ Can be used to below the baseline the descenders like banners and bowl of a lowercase to a counter the bottom of a ‘c’ baseline like an ‘o’, ‘p’ or ‘c’ describe an italic headlines ‘g’ or ‘r’ or ‘e’ or the top of a font which is similar double storey ‘a’ to handwriting GADZOOK GLYPH GROTESK HAIRLINE HALBFETT HEAD SERIF HINTING HOOK INK TRAP ITALIC JOINT / JUNCTURE KERNING LEADING / LEG LIGATURE An embellishment A single character German name for The lightest font German name for Half serif at the top Data instructions Curved stroke in a Areas of the counter Slanted to the Where a stroke joins Adjustments to LINESPACING Downward sloping Two or more letters in a ligature that is (number, letter, sans serif family weight name; the semi-bold weight starting point of the within a font to help lowercase ‘f’ are opened to allow right unlike roman a stem the space between Vertical space stroke on a ‘k’ and ‘R’ joined together to not originally part of mark or symbol) is can refer to thinnest in a type family letterform it render clearly at for ink to spread, typefaces which are pairs of letters, between lines of form one glyph either letter represented by a stroke of a letter varying sizes avoiding dark spots upright used to correct text, from baseline glyph spacing problems in to baseline combinations like ‘VA’ u LINK / NECK LOOP / LOBE MIDLINE OBLIQUE / SLANTED OLDSTYLE / OVERSHOOT PICA POINT POINT SIZE PRO RASTERIZATION ROMAN SERIF SHOULDER SINGLE-TIER The link connecting A rounded enclosed Invisible line resting Slanted typeface, HANGING FIGURES A round or pointed A unit of measure A unit of measure The size of the body Support additional Converting an image Standard type style Small stroke at the Curved part in a When an ‘a’ or ‘g’ the top and bottom or partially-enclosed on the body of the mechanically Numbers aligned letter extends higher corresponding to corresponding 1/12 of each character in languages including from vector to raster or regular weight of beginning or end of lowercase ‘h’, ‘m’ has one counter bowls of a lowercase projecting stroke lowercase letters sheared unlike italics with the lowercase, or lower than a flat 12 points or pixels of a pica or 1 pixel a font Central European (pixels or dots) an upright typeface main strokes of a and ‘n’ rather than two ‘g’ which are drawn and traditionally used for letter to make it and Cyrillic and/or letter crafted separately body text setting optically appear Greek the same size SMALL CAPS SPACING SPINE SPUR SPURLESS STEM SWASH TAIL TAPER TERMINAL TITTLE TRACKING VERTEX WEIGHT X-HEIGHT Capitals which are a Horizontal space The main curve in ‘S’ Small protruding part Curves transition A vertical stroke in Exaggerated The descending Thinner and refined The end of any The dot on the ‘i’ Spacing added to or The point where The heaviness Height of the similar height to the on the side of each and ‘s’ off a main stroke into straight stems a character decorative serif, stroke of the letter end of a stroke stroke that doesn’t and the ‘j’ removed from groups two strokes meet of a typeface, lowercase ‘x’ which lowercase, designed character without a spur terminal or tail ‘Q’ have a serif of letters outside the at the bottom of a independent of is used as a guideline for abbreviation and original spacing and character its size; can refer for the height of emphasis in texts kerning specified to a style within a unextended within a font file font family (Thin or lowercase letters Regular) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 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