Talon Bailey's Web Design Typography Vocabulary

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