Samia Payne Typography Vocab

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