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