Katie Claire Typography Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. of the most prevalent characters learned from the beginning of writing the alphabet, because the stroke
  2. 4. A cursive font based on a stylized form of calligraphy handwriting.
  3. 7. Used to identify the way you decrease or increase the horizontal spacing between a range of letters or characters
  4. 9. The line upon which most letters "sit" and below which descenders extend
  5. 11. The art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed.
  6. 13. The part of a lower-case letter that is taller than the font's x-height.
  7. 15. One that does not have extending features called "tails" at the end of strokes.
  8. 19. The imaginary line that rests on top of the body of the lowercase letters, disregarding ascenders.
  9. 21. a set of fonts that have a common design
  10. 23. The spacing between individual letters or characters
Down
  1. 1. 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.
  2. 2. The quality of being clear enough to read..
  3. 5. A typographical symbol or ornament (such as, ¶, or ✠)
  4. 6. The smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page.
  5. 8. A hieroglyphic character or symbol.
  6. 10. A single element. such as a letter, numeral, or mark of punctuation.
  7. 12. The portion of a letter that extends below
  8. 14. The distance between the baseline and the mean line of lower-case letters in a typeface
  9. 16. A diagonal part of the letter.
  10. 17. Makes letters of a text thicker than the surrounding text
  11. 18. 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
  12. 20. up the largest part of the letter.
  13. 22. the space between adjacent lines of type