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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. ...
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. ...
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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). ...
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A hyphen ( -, or †) is a punctuation mark. ...
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Type design is the art of designing typefaces. ...
In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ...
In typography, serifs are non-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. ...
For the origin and evolution of fonts, see History of western typography. ...
Capital letters or majuscules (in the Roman alphabet: A, B, C, ...) are one type of case in a writing system. ...
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OpenType is a scalable computer font format initially developed by Microsoft, later joined by Adobe Systems. ...
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In typography, leading (IPA , rhymes with heading) refers to the amount of added vertical spacing between lines of type. ...
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...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Ligature (palaeography). ...
Blackletter in a Latin Bible of AD 1407, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ...
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. ...
Phototypesetting is a method of setting type with light (photo). ...
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. ...
The descenders are the parts of the characters that lie below the baseline, highlighted in red. ...
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. ...
A type foundry is a company that produces and/or distributes typefaces. ...
In typography and penmanship, the baseline is the line upon which most letters sit and under which descenders extend. ...
In typography, tracking is the process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the space between all glyphs (letters) in a block of text. ...
OpenType Typographic Features All Alternates [aalt] Alternate Annotation [nalt] Alternative Fractions [afrc] Capitals to Petite Caps [c2pc] Capitals to Small Caps [c2sc] Case Sensive Forms [case+cpsp] Contextual Alternates [calt] Contextual Ligatures [clig] Contextual Swash [cswh] Denominator [dnom] Discretionary Ligatures [dlig] Expert Forms (Asian) [expt] Fractions [frac] Full Widths (Asian...
In typography, a counter is an area entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol (the counter-space/ the hole of). ...
Book design refers to the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole. ...
In traditional typography, punchcutting is the process by which matrices were made in hard metal for type founding in the early days. ...
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. ...
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. ...
Initial P in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire Detail from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497) printed in Strasbourg by J.R.Grueninger. ...
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...
In typography, rivers, or rivers of white, are visually unattractive gaps appearing to run down a paragraph of text. ...
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. ...
In type design and typography, the word Hamburgefonts (alternatively styled HAMBURGEFONTS or hamburgefonts) is a word used to sample a font. ...
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