Typography Vocab. Jacob Rasinar

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