Abigail Confederat typography vocabulary
Across
- 3. the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font
- 4. has a tail
- 7. a cursive font based on a stylized form of calligraphy handwriting.
- 9. a set of fonts that have a common design.
- 11. makes letters of a text thicker than the surrounding text.
- 13. a line indicating the height within the font of an uppercase letter.
- 15. a typographical symbol or ornament.
- 17. the relative thickness of a fonts stroke
- 19. main usually vertical stroke of a letterform.
- 20. a hieroglyphic character or symbol.
- 21. the space between adjacent lines of type.
- 22. the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed.
- 24. a single element such as a letter numeral or mark of punctuation.
- 25. the line upon which most letters sit and below which descenders extend.
Down
- 1. has no tails
- 2. a diagonal part of a letter.
- 5. a particular size weight and style of a typeface.
- 6. is the distance between the baseline and the midline of lowercase letters in a typeface.
- 8. used to identify the way you decrease or increase the horizontal spacing between a range of letters or characters
- 10. the imaginary line that rests on top of the body of the lowercase letters disregarding ascenders.
- 12. the quality of being clear enough to read.
- 14. the smallest unit of measure is used for measuring font size leading and other items on a printed page.
- 16. the spacing between individual letters or characters.
- 18. the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight, slope, width, and so on.
- 23. the part of a lowercase letter that is taller than the fonts xheight.