 The ascenders are the parts of the characters that lie above the midline, highlighted in red. In typography, an ascender is the portion of a letter in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a font. That is, the part of the letter that is taller than the font's x-height. Illustration of ascenders. ...
Illustration of ascenders. ...
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In typography, a grapheme is the atomic unit in written language. ...
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For the origin and evolution of fonts, see History of western typography. ...
In typography, the x-height or corpus size refers to the height of the lowercase letter x in any font, which is usually the same for a, c, e, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, and z. ...
Ascenders, together with descenders, increase the recognizability of words. For this reason, British highway road signs that must be read quickly no longer use all capital letters.[1] The descenders are the parts of the characters that lie below the baseline, highlighted in red. ...
Capital letters or majuscules (in the Roman alphabet: A, B, C, ...) are one type of case in a writing system. ...
References
- ^ Sampson, Geoffrey. Writing Systems: A linguistic introduction, pp. 94–95. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-8047-1254-9.
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