Typography Vocabulary Gavin Elkins

4. the space between adjacent lines of type.
7. a particular size, weight, and style of a typeface
10. Makes letters of a text thicker than the surrounding text
12. The line upon which most letters "sit" and below which descenders extend
13. The spacing between individual letters or characters
16. A cursive font based on a stylized form of calligraphy handwriting.
18. The distance between the baseline and the mean line of lower-case letters in a typeface
22. One that does not have extending features called "tails" at the end of strokes.
23. A line indicating the height within the font of an uppercase letter.
24. a hieroglyphic character or symbol
25. 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.

1. The imaginary line that rests on top of the body of the lowercase letters, disregarding ascenders.
2. a set of fonts that have a common design
3. The portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font.
5. The quality of being clear enough to read.
6. a diagonal part of the letter
8. The smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page.
9. Used to identify the way you decrease or increase the horizontal spacing between a range of letters or characters
11. A small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke called “Tails” in a letter
14. the relative thickness of a font's stroke
15. The art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed.
17. The part of a lower-case letter that is taller than the font's x-height.
19. A single element. such as a letter, numeral, or mark of punctuation
20. A typographical symbol or ornament (such as, ¶, or ✠)
21. main stroke of a letterform