Joseph Petry Typography Vocabulary

3. the relative thickness of a fonts stroke.
6. The art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible.
7. main stroke of a letterform
8. the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font.
10. the part of a lowercase letter that is taller that the fonts x-height.
11. used to identify the way you decrease or increase the horizontal spacing between a range of letters or characters.
12. a cursive font based on stylized from of caligraphy.
13. A line indicating the height within the font of an uppercase letter
15. one that does not have extending features called "serifs."
17. a diagonal part of the letter
18. the spacing between individual letters of characters.
20. the space between adjacent lines of type.
22. a single element such as a letter, numeral, or mark
23. the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size.
24. the imaginary line that rests on top of the body of the lowercase letters

1. the distance between the baseline and the mid line.
2. a particular size, weight and style of a typeface.
4. the design of lettering that can include. variations in size, weight, slope, width and so on.
5. makes letters of a text thicker that the surrounding text.
7. a small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol.
9. the quality of being clear enough to read.
14. the line upon which most letters "sit."
16. a set of fonts that have a common design.
19. a hieroglyphic character or symbol.
21. a typographical symbol or ornament.