Typographic Terms
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| show | Apex
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| show | Arm
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| show | Ascender
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| show | Baseline
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| show | Bowl, open or closed
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| show | capline
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| the negative space that is fully or partially enclosed by a letterform | show 🗑
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| the horizontal stroke connecting two sides of the letterform (as in e, A, and H) or bisecting the main stroke (as in f ant t) | show 🗑
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| a stroke on a lowercase letterform that falls below the baseline | show 🗑
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| a small stroke that projects from the upper right side of the bowl of the lowercase roman g or r | show 🗑
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| the (negative) enclosed part of the lowercase e | show 🗑
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| the contoured edge that connects the serif and stem in the bracketed serifs | show 🗑
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| the thinnest stroke within a typeface that has strokes of varying weights | show 🗑
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| the lower diagonal stroke on the letter k | show 🗑
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| a typographic character produced by conbining two or more letters | show 🗑
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| the stroke that connects the bowl and the loop of a lowercase roman g | show 🗑
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| bottom form of the lowercase letter g | show 🗑
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| show | meanline
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| "feet" of a letter | show 🗑
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| a curved stroke projecting from a stem as in the letter R | show 🗑
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| show | spine
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| show | spur
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| show | stem
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| any of the linear elements within a letterform; originally, any mark or dash made by the movement of a pen or brush in writing | show 🗑
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| a diagonal stroke on the upper case Q | show 🗑
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| show | terminal
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| show | x-height
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| show | hairline stroke
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| thicker stroke on a letter | show 🗑
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| show | sans serif
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| show | vertical terminal
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| show | horizontal stroke
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| show | squared terminal
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| the extended top of a lower case 'a' that is rounded | show 🗑
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| the extended top of a lower case 'a' that is slight angled right to left | show 🗑
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| the extended top of a lower case 'a' that is rounded with the negative space being pushed in more than a ball | show 🗑
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| show | teardrop terminal
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| show | bracket
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| show | cupped arch
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| show | flat bottom edge
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| show | didot
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| show | lubalin
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| show | cross stroke
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| show | acute stress
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| an 'o' that has a center line at a 45 degree angle | show 🗑
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| show | counter
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| the nearly contained space, the negative space, of a letter | show 🗑
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| the negative space of a letter form where to letters meet, such as in a W | show 🗑
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| the negative space of a letter form where to letters meet, with greater than a 90 degree angle | show 🗑
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| show | acute crotch
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| show | vertex
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| half serif found at the terminal of a straight horizontal stroke is called a(n) | show 🗑
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| the serif on a curved terminal is called a(n) | show 🗑
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