Pagination · Recto · Verso · Margin · Column · Canons of page construction This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... A page is one side of a leaf of paper. ... Pagination is the system by which pages of a book, play, manuscript, or otherwise handwritten or printed document, are marked with consecutive arabic numbers, to indicate the proper order of the pages. ... The recto of a broadsheet, pamphlet or any printed document is the side that is meant to be read first or the right-hand page of a folded sheet. ... The verso of a broadsheet, pamphlet or any printed document is the side that is meant to be read second or the left-hand page of a folded sheet. ... The term margin has many meanings: In telecommunication, margin has the following meanings: In communications systems, the maximum degree of signal distortion that can be tolerated without affecting the restitution, without its being interpreted incorrectly by the decision circuit. ... Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497) In the field of book design, proportions of pages, type areas (print spaces), and margins of medieval books have been analyzed by scholars, and several canons of page construction have been described by them to represent the ways in which these books...

Orphan · Widow · Leading · River · Baseline · Justification Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... A pilcrow is used to indicate a paragraph. ... Example of an orphan In typesetting, an orphan is a single word or short last line of a paragraph. ... In typesetting, a widow appears if the first line of a paragraph is appearing at the bottom of a page with the remainder appearing on the following page. ... In typography, leading (IPA , rhymes with heading) refers to the amount of added vertical spacing between lines of type. ... In typography, rivers, or rivers of white, are visually unattractive gaps appearing to run down a paragraph of text. ... In typography and penmanship, the baseline is the line upon which most letters sit and under which descenders extend. ... In typesetting, justification is the setting of text or images within a column or measure to align along both the left and right margin. ...

Ligature · Letter-spacing · Kerning · Majuscule · Minuscule · Initial · x-height · Ascender · Descender · Diacritics · Counter It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Ligature (palaeography). ... Examples or headline letter-spacing In typography, letter-spacing, also called tracking, refers to the amount of space between a group of letters to affect density in a line or block of text. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Capital letters or majuscules (in the Roman alphabet: A, B, C, ...) are one type of case in a writing system. ... Minuscule, or lower case, is the smaller form (case) of letters (in the Roman alphabet: a, b, c, ...). Originally alphabets were written entirely in majuscule (capital) letters which were spaced between well-defined upper and lower bounds. ... Initial P in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire Detail from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497) printed in Strasbourg by J.R.Grueninger. ... 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. ... The ascenders are the parts of the characters that lie above the midline, highlighted in red. ... The descenders are the parts of the characters that lie below the baseline, highlighted in red. ... A diacritical mark or diacritic, also called an accent mark, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. ...

Serif · Italic · Slab serif · Sans-serif · Blackletter · Script · Dingbat For the origin and evolution of fonts, see History of western typography. ... In typography, serifs are non-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A sample of the Rockwell typeface, a slab serif font In typography, a slab serif (also called mechanistic, square serif or egyptian) typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. ... In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ... Blackletter in a Latin Bible of AD 1407, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... Kuenstler Script is an example of a formal script. ... A dingbat is an ornament or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a printers ornament. The term supposedly originated as onomatopoeia in old style metal-type print shops, where extra space around text or illustrations would be filled by dinging an ornament into the space...

Hanging punctuation · Hyphenation · Curly quotes · En dash · Em dash The term punctuation has two different linguistic meanings: in general, the act and the effect of punctuating, i. ... In typography, hanging punctuation is a way of typesetting punctuation marks, most commonly quotation marks, so that they do not disrupt the ‘flow’ of a body of text. ... A hyphen ( - ) is a punctuation mark. ... For the Wikipedia quotation template, see here. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ...

Type design · Type foundry · Movable type · Calligraphy · Phototypesetting · Letterpress · Typeface · Lorem ipsum · Hamburgefonts  · Punchcutting This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Type design is the art of designing typefaces. ... A type foundry is a company that produces and/or distributes typefaces. ... A case of cast metal type pieces and typeset matter in a composing stick Movable type is the system of printing and typography using movable pieces of metal type, made by casting from matrices struck by letterpunches. ... Contemporary Calligraphy Calligraphy (from Greek kallos beauty + graphẽ writing) is the art of beautiful writing (Mediavilla 1996: 17). ... Phototypesetting is a method of setting type with light (photo). ... Letterpress printing is the oldest printing technique, in which a raised surface is inked and then pressed against a smooth substance to obtain an image in reverse. ... For the origin and evolution of fonts, see History of western typography. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... In type design and typography, the word Hamburgefonts (alternatively styled HAMBURGEFONTS or hamburgefonts) is a word used to sample a font. ... In traditional typography, punchcutting is the process by which matrices were made in hard metal for type founding in the early days. ...