Typography Terms

5. Height of the lowercase letters, disregarding ascenders or descenders (this word includes a dash)
7. Any horizontal line used as a divider and printed on the page (not a guide)
11. Four color process printing
13. The imaginary line upon which the letters in a font appear to rest.
14. A single line of text that appears at the top of a page
15. The height from the baseline to the top of the uppercase letters
16. Lone word or short group of words that appears at the bottom of a paragraph, column or page
18. Special characters that are actually two letters combined into one. In cases where two adjacent characters would normally bump into each other
19. Extra space on the outside of your document, different from bleed, used to show markings or notes for the printer
20. Space between the edge of the printed text/image and the edge of the page.

1. Two pages shown side-by-side, also known as a spread – used for documents that will be printed and bound (two words DO NOT include the space between words)
2. The vertical space between lines of text, from baseline to baseline
3. Used for screen design
4. Printing that extends to the edge of a sheet or page after trimming
6. Adding space between sequences of characters
8. The lack of a short line or finishing stroke on a letter, sans translated means without
9. Every character in a typeface
10. A short line or finishing stroke that crosses or projects from stems or strokes in a character
12. Adding space between two characters
17. The space between columns of text