Typographic Terms
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| show | Apex
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| A projecting horizontal stroke that is unattached on of or both ends, as in the letters T, K, and E | show 🗑
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| A stroke on a lowercase letter that rises above the meanline | show 🗑
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| An imaginary line upon which the base of each capital letter rests | show 🗑
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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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| show | eye
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| show | fillet/bracket
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| the thinnest stroke within a typeface that has strokes of varying weights | show 🗑
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| show | leg
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| a typographic character produced by conbining two or more letters | show 🗑
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| show | link
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| bottom form of the lowercase letter g | show 🗑
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| an imaginary line that establishes the eight of the body of lowercase letters | show 🗑
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| show | serifs
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| a curved stroke projecting from a stem as in the letter R | show 🗑
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| the central curved stroke of the letter s | show 🗑
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| a projection - smaller than a serif - that reinforces the point at the end of a curved stroke, as in the capitol letter G | show 🗑
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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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| show | tail
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| show | terminal
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| the distance from the baseline to the mealine. typically, this is the height of lowercase letters and most easily measured on the lowercase x | show 🗑
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| thinner stroke in a letter | show 🗑
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| show | stem stroke
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| without feet | show 🗑
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| show | vertical terminal
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| the bottom of the main stroke of an upper case F | show 🗑
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| the extended top of a lower case 'a' that is squared | show 🗑
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| show | rounded terminal
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| the extended top of a lower case 'a' that is slight angled right to left | show 🗑
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| show | ball terminal
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| the extended top of a lower case 'a' that is in the shape of a fat teardrop | show 🗑
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| transitional area found where the stroke gently curves into the serif | show 🗑
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| show | cupped arch
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| a flat serif | show 🗑
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| thin serif no bracket | show 🗑
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| show | lubalin
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| show | cross stroke
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| show | acute stress
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| show | no stress
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| the contained space, the negative space, of a letter | show 🗑
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| show | open counter
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| show | crotch
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| show | obtuse crotch
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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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| show | barb
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