Categories: Typography | Stub categories | Typography stubs Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... 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. ... An example of a two column layout with caption. ... 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... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... A pilcrow is used to indicate a paragraph. ... 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. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... In typesetting, alignment, is the horizontal positioning and alignment of text or images within a line, typically relative to a column. ... In typesetting, justification is the setting of text or images within a column or measure to align along both the left and right margin. ... 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. ... In typography, a counter is an area entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol (the counter-space/ the hole of). ... 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... 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. ... Quotation marks or inverted commas (also called quotes and speech marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase or a word. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... A character encoding or character set (sometimes referred to as code page) consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers... Font rasterization is the process of converting text from a vector description (as found in scalable fonts such as TrueType fonts) to a raster or bitmap description. ... A font test with (lower rows) and without hinting (upper rows) at 100% (above) and 400% (below). ... Image File history File links Crystal_Clear_app_fonts. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...