An en is a typographic unit, half of the width of an em. Typographic units are different from common metric units, as they were established earlier. ... An em is a unit of measurement in the field of typography. ...
By definition it is therefore equivalent to half of the height of the font (e.g. in 16 point type it is 8 points). A point is a unit of measure in typography. ...
The en dash (–) and en space ( ) are each one en wide. A dash is a punctuation mark, and is not to be confused with the hyphen, which has quite different uses. ... A space is a punctuation convention for providing interword separation in some scripts, including the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Arabic. ...
To better grasp the concept of the en unit, read the article regarding the Em typographical unit, keeping in mind an en will always be half the length of an em. An em is a unit of measurement in the field of typography. ...
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Advertising typography tends to be difficult, because a prescribed amount of text must be copyfitted (see copyfitting) into a fixed amount of space in a manner acceptable to representatives of both the advertiser and the advertising agency.
Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of fonts, font size, line length, leading (line spacing) and individual and overall letter spacing.
Typography with letters and alphabets began in 15th century Europe with the development, by Johannes Gutenberg and others, of specialized techniques for casting cheap copies of letter punches in the vast quantities required to print complete books.
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