Typography Vocabulary - Jayden Flores

1. - Makes a letter of a text thicker than surrounding text.
3. -The part of a lower case letter that is taller than the fonts x-height.
7. - The portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font.
10. - The imaginary line that resets on top of the body of the lowercase letters, disregarding ascenders.
11. - A cursive font based on a stylized form of calligraphy handwriting.
17. Family - A set of fonts that have a common design.
18. - The quality of being clear enough to read.
20. - The art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed.
21. Size - The smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page.
24. - A line indicating the height within the font of an uppercase letter.

1. - The line upon which most letters "sit" and below which descenders extend.
2. -A diagonal part of the letter.
4. - The space between adjacent lines of type.
5. - is the distance between the baseline and the midline of lowercase letters in a typeface.
6. - The spacing between individual letters or characters.
8. -A typographical symbol or ornament.
9. - Used to identify the way you decrease or increase the horizontal spacing between a range of letters or characters.
12. Fonts- A small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol within a particular font or family fonts.
13. - The relative thickness of font's stroke.
14. -Main(usually vertical)stroke of a letterform.
15. - A particular size, weight, and style of typeface.
16. - A hieroglyphic character or symbol.
19. Serif Fonts - One that does not have extending features called serifs or tails at the end of strokes.
22. - The design of lettering that can include variation in size, weight, slope, width, and so on
23. -A single element such as a letter, numeral, or mark of punctuation.