Clay Davis Topography Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. The art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed.
  2. 6. Makes letters of a text thicker than the surrounding text
  3. 8. The quality of being clear enough to read.
  4. 10. the space between adjacent lines of type.
  5. 11. The smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page.
  6. 14. a set of fonts that have a common design
  7. 16. The design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on.
  8. 18. A hieroglyphic character or symbol.
  9. 19. A small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke called “Tails” in a letter or symbol within a particular font or family of fonts.
  10. 20. A cursive font based on a stylized form of calligraphy handwriting
  11. 21. The portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font.
Down
  1. 1. One that does not have extending features called "tails" at the end of strokes.
  2. 2. A diagonal part of the letter. one of the most prevalent characters learned from the beginning of writing the alphabet, because the stroke makes up the largest part of the letter
  3. 3. The imaginary line that rests on top of the body of the lowercase letters, disregarding ascenders.
  4. 5. The part of a lower-case letter that is taller than the font's x-height. stem The main (usually vertical) stroke of a letterform.
  5. 7. A line indicating the height within the font of an uppercase letter
  6. 9. The spacing between individual letters or characters
  7. 12. A single element. such as a letter, numeral, or mark of punctuation.
  8. 13. The line upon which most letters "sit" and below which descenders extend
  9. 15. The distance between the baseline and the mean line of lower-case letters in a typeface
  10. 17. A typographical symbol or ornament (such as, ¶, or ✠)