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The accent symbol used on vowels or consonants in Czech, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, and other languages.
The accent symbol used on vowels or consonants in Czech, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, and other languages.
The setting, or justification, of text on a page, column or table. It can also refer to how well characters in a typeface sit on the baseline.
An abbreviation for the word "and" which dates back to Roman times.
An area of a letter that is partially enclosed. Like a counter, some fonts have large apertures and some have small ones.
The highest point of a character such as an 'A' where two angled strokes meet.
A secondary stroke that extends from the side of a stroke. A character's arm does not connect to another letter.
Part of a lowercase letter that is above the x-height.
The axis, or angle of stress, is the angle in which contrast occurs. Stress can be either vertical or a oblique.
A decorative typeface feature where a stroke ends in a circular shape, as opposed to a serif.
The terminal for a curved serif letter.
The imaginary line on which a line of text sits and where other elements such as x-height and leading are measured.
The beak, or beak terminal, is the terminal of a straight capital serif found on the horizontal strokes.
A bitmap font consists of dots or pixels that make up an image of each character and character variant.
A curved stroke that surrounds and contains the counter.
The curved portion of a serif that connects to the stroke.
The height of a capital letter above the baseline, specifically, the height of letters that are flat rather than rounded.
An individual type element, either a letter, number, or punctuation.
A glyph mark added to a vowel in French, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and other languages.
A color mode that uses four ink layers (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) to create colors. The CMYK color mode is used in printing design.
The differences in color, shape, or weight that contribute to the visual effect of typography. Contrast can be between typefaces, sizes, colors, or weights.
Any enclosed space in a character. A closed counter is a space that is completely closed. An open counter occurs when a curved or angled stroke creates an open space but does connect to another stroke.
A horizontal stroke connecting two strokes.
The space inside of a vertex.
Part of a lowercase letter that falls below the baseline.
Dots Per Inch (or PPI) measures the on-screen resolution of an image.
A capital letter at the beginning on a paragraph that drops down into the lines of text below it.
The decorative extension that sticks up and out from the top of a stroke or bowl.
An individual HTML component that is made up of a coded opening tag, a coded value, and a closing tag.
A long dash or space that indicates a change of thought or emphasis. The unit of measure derived from the width of an uppercase ‘M’.
A medium-length dash or space indicating a range of items or a span of time. A unit of measure equal to one half of one em.
Extenders, also called ascenders, are a part of a lowercase letter that is above the x-height.
The closed counter of a lowercase 'e'.
The physical attributes needed to make a typeface, whether it is metal, wood, or PostScript file information. A font contains all the info on variations in weight, width, and angles found in a typeface.
A serif at the bottom of the stem that sits on the baseline.
An elemental symbol representing a character in a font. The most common glyphs are letters and numerals. Punctuation, shapes, and accent marks are also glyphs.
An accent used on vowels in French, Italian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and other languages.
The thinnest stroke that can be found in a typeface.
A version of type that angles letters to the right between 2° and 20° degrees.
The setting or alignment of text in a page, column, or table. Justified text can be set to flush left, flush right, centered, or fully justified, which is flush with both margins.
The manual adjustment and removal of the space between two consecutive letters.
Horizontal white space between lines of text measured from baseline to baseline. The word 'leading' derived from letterpress printing when lead strips were between lines of type to provide spacing.
A lower, secondary stroke that extends horizontally or diagonally from the bottom of a letter.
Two or more letters that touch, forming a single unit.
The small piece that joins the upper bowl with the lower loop of a lowercase 'g'.
The counter on the traditionally shaped lowercase 'g'.
Lowercase letters, or minuscule letters, are small, non-capitalized letters.
A spacing style where each character occupies the same width of space.
The font standard developed by Apple and Microsoft in the 1990s. OpenType builds on Typetype and is commonly used today in .OTF or .TTF font extensions.
A measurement for specifying line lengths. One pica is 12 points and there are six picas in one inch.
The smallest unit of space available for information on a screen display.
Measuring system for type size. There are 72 points in 1 inch.
Pixels Per Inch (or DPI) measures the on-screen resolution of an image.
A type of CSS function to create layouts and typographic functions. CSS properties include font-size, color, font-style, and many more.
A color mode that uses combinations of Red, Green and Blue to produce colors. The RGB color mode is used in web design.
A font without decorative serifs. Sans is a French word meaning "without"—hence, the phrase sans-serif means "without serif".
A decorative terminal stroke at the end of a vertical or horizontal stroke.
A short rounded arch that connects two vertical strokes.
A font with squared-off terminals.
The curved stroke through the middle of an 'S'.
A small terminal coming off the top or bottom of a curved letter.
The most prominent vertical or diagonal stroke of a letter.
The axis created by the thick and thin stroke contrast of a letter. Stress can be vertical or oblique.
The straight or curved lines that make up a letter. Stems, bars, arms, bowls, etc. are collectively referred to as strokes.
SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics, is an XML language for defining two-dimensional graphics and is a used sometimes as a .SVG font file.
The extra flourish that accompanies many script and blackletter style typefaces.
The descending stroke on the lower half of a letter (such as the uppercase Q, R, or lowercase j, p, y).
A stroke ending without a serif.
A glyph mark used on vowels in Estonian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and other languages.
The adjustable space between successions of letters in a word or sentence.
A font standard developed by Apple in the 1980s. It has the file extension .TTF.
The letters, numbers, and punctuation marks of a type design.
A glyph mark used on letters in Finnish, German, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh, and other languages.
Uppercase letters, or majuscule letters, are large, capitalized letters.
The angle formed at the bottom of a character where two angled strokes meet.
Varying degrees of thickness built into a font. Typical weights include light, roman (or book), medium, bold, heavy, black.
The area between the baseline and a letter’s cap height, measured by the height of the lowercase 'x' of any font.