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glyph
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alternate character
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character set
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all letters,numbers,punctuation, etc
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lowercase
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small letters or historically miniscule in a type-face as opposed to capitals
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Tracking
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Adjust the letter spacing between letters in a word, sentence, paragraph...enabling you to bring letters closer or further apart.
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Overhang
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The bottoms of curved letterforms, commas, and semicolons descend just slightly below the baseline.
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cutline
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term used predominantly by newspapers to describe the information that goes along with a photo"photo caption" or"photo blurb"
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barb
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the half-serif finish on curved strokes of letters such as C, G, or S
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x-height
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the height of a lowercase x.
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Kerning
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Typically adjusted in a headline or larger type, It is used to adjust the letter spacing between two letters to bring them closer or further apart.
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Leg
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the lower diagonal stroke of the letter k
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greeked text
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in a preliminary layout, simulated text used to show the position of actual text on the page
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font
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a particular style, weight, and size of a typeface, e.g., 12 point Goudy Oldstyle Bold
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dpi
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dots per inch. the measure of resolution for a monitor or printer.laser printers typically have a resolution of 600 dpi; monitors are typically 72 dpi
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capital
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alo called uppercase. the lage letters of the alphabet; the oriinal form of all ancient roman characters, capil letters have no ascenders or descenders
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baseline
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the imaginary line upon which text rests. descenderd extend below the baseline
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typography
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the work of setting and arranging types and of printing from them.
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points
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What units of measure should be used to measure type?
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describe old-style figures
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numbers with ascenders and descenders compatible with lowercase letters
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vertex
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the point created by joining of two diagonals below such as V or W
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family
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all the sizes and styles of a particular typeface
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back matter
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book information placed after the text xopy; usualy it includes index, glossary, bibliography, an the appendix
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Sans Serif
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A race or species of type without serifs (the finishing strokes on characters) usually containing monotonal letter strokes.
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Molten lead...Leading
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How type was once cast? Still today adjusting the space between lines of text is still known for this.
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How do characters align?
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Optically on the baseline
body height of lowercase align at x height
tops of capitals align along the capline
no alignments are precise, adjustments are made to create the optical effect
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visual gray
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density of the gray created by type. also known as "color"created though weight, density, and contrast
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what four major variables most define the look of a typeface?
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stoke-to-height ratiostroke weight contrastletter widthx-height to cap, ascender and descender lines.
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non-lining figures/ old style figures
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text figures or oldstyle figures designed to blend in with body text
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What is set-width
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the width of a piece of type. (varies w/ design of each individual letter) M & W have widest set width, and i & l have narrowest.
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A widow is a very short line – usually one word, or the end of a hyphenated word – at the end of a paragraph or column. A widow is considered poor typography because it leaves too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page.
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What is a widow?
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what are the two styles of figures?
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- lining or modern or titling- old-style
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