Typography Terms

1. Another essential term in typography, leading relates to the spacing in between any successive lines of type.
6. a script that was very popular in Western Europe from the 12th to the 17th centuries.
7. The stroke is simply one of the lines that comprise any given letter.
8. the procedure of altering the spaces in between the letters in a font, but only among specific and individual letters.
10. a font without the aforementioned tiny feet or lines at the ends of the strokes in its letters or symbols.
12. a reference to the tiny feet or lines connected to the ends of strokes in letters or symbols.
16. this is the set of fonts that have the same basic qualities in their design, yet their sizes, styles, and weights can vary.
17. your basic height of a lowercase letter, most specifically when referring to the actual letter “x.”
18. the typographer’s term for simple letter spacing.

2. The ascender and descender are two closely related terms. The ascender is the portion of the lowercase letter that extends above its x-height while the descender is the portion that goes beneath its baseline
3. the most unique typography term in that it’s reserved for only one character alone: the letter “s.”
4. fonts that have very thick serifs at the ends of each letter’s strokes.
5. the main font styles common across all sorts of font families.
9. the cap height of a character is the height of a capital letter from the baseline all the way to the top of the cap.
11. The stem is a type of stroke, the basic unit of the parts of a character.
13. A font is group of characters that you can print or display in a certain size and style.
14. the curved portion of a letter that encloses either the curved or circular portions of certain letters.
15. This is utilized to measure the size of a font.