Joshua Grandell Typography Vocab

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