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Weight

In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font was a matched set of type, one piece (called a "sort") for each glyph, and a typeface comprised a range of fonts that shared an overall design.

Widows

A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page or column, thus separated from the rest of the text.

Typeface

a particular design of type.

TrueType Fonts

an outline font standard developed by Apple and Microsoft in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript.

Leading

refers to the distance between the baselines of successive lines of type.

Kerning

the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result.

Word Spacing

the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result.

Body Texts

Body paragraphs

Gestalt Theory

Gestalt Theory in Typography & Design Principles Gestalt is a form of psychology that focuses on cognitive behaviors. Designers are influenced by the visual perceptual aspect of this, particularly the theory that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. - See more at: http://www.howdesign.com/resources-education/online-design-courses-education/gestalt-theory-typography-design-principles/#sthash.EnCVw4PX.dpuf

Alignment

Left & right aligned, centered and justified.

Postscript Fonts

PostScript fonts are outline font specifications developed by Adobe Systems for professional digital typesetting, which uses PostScript file format to encode font information.

Stroke

The ascender line is an imaginary horizontal line that marks the tops of most ascenders in a font.

Baseline

The invisible line where all characters sit. In typography, the baseline is the imaginary line upon which a line of text rests.

Lowercase

The little letters or non-capital letters of the alphabet are lowercase glyphs.

Bullets

The making of a list.

Italic

italic type is a cursive font based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting.

Uppercase

A letter or group of letters of the size and form generally used to begin sentences and proper nouns. Also known as "capital letters".

Orphans

A paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page or column. A word, part of a word, or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Orphans result in too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page.

Bold

A set of type characters that are darker and heavier than normal. A bold font implies that each character was originally designed with a heavier appearance rather than created on the fly from a normal character.

Mixed Case

Between cap letters and not capitol letters.

Captions

The definition of a caption is a heading or title, or words on a screen that communicate what is being said.

Font

The font size or text size is the overall size (generally height) of a font shown on a screen or printed on a page. A font is typically measured in a point (pt) size, which is the vertical measurement of the lettering. There are approximately 72

Points

The font size or text size is the overall size (generally height) of a font shown on a screen or printed on a page. A font is typically measured in a point (pt) size, which is the vertical measurement of the lettering. There are approximately 72 (72.272) points in one inch or 2.54 cm.

Font Families

a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features. Each font of a typeface has a specific weight, style, condensation, width, slant, italicization, ornamentation.

Serif

a slight projection finishing off a stroke of a letter in certain typefaces.

Sans Serif

a style of type without serifs

Smart Quotes

are two gerneric vertical quotation marks located near the return key.

Letter

character representing one or more of the sounds used in speech

OpenType Fonts

file contains either a TrueType outline font file, which requires a suffix of TTF, or a PostScript outline font file, with a suffix of OTF.

Case

how characters are capitalized within a word or phrase.

Justified

text is aligned along the left margin, and letter- and word-spacing is adjusted so that the text falls flush with both margins, also known as fully justified or full justification.

Terminal

the terminal is a type of curve. Many sources consider a terminal to be just the end (straight or curved) of any stroke that doesn't include a serif (which can include serif fonts, such as the little stroke at the end of "n" as shown in the illustration).


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