Typography Terms

Typography Terms

This dictionary contains definitions of type-related terms that are commonly used in desktop publishing.

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AA

Adobe Type Manager

AFM

alley

alphabet

alternate character

ampersand

apex

Arabic number

arc of the stem

arm

ascender

ascender line

ascent

ASCII

ATM

autoflow

back matter

bad break

banner

bar

baseline

Bezier curve

bitmap

bitmap font

bleed

Blackletter

body copy

bold face

body size

body type

boldface

bold italics

bold type

book list

bounce

boustrophedon

bowl

bracketed serif

brackets

break

bullet

caching

calendaring

California job case

calligraphic

callout

cap height

cap line

capital

caps and small caps

caption

character

character count

character set

codex

cold type

colophon

column rule

comp

condensed

connotation

contrast

copy

counter

cross bar

cross stroke

crotch

cuneiform

cursive

cutline

denotation

descender

descender line

descent

diacritic

dingbats

discretionary hyphens

display face

downloadable font

downloading

dpi

drop cap

ear

Egyptian

element

em

em dash

em square

em space

em unit

embedding

en

en dash

en space

en square

EPS

expanded

extended

family

fixed pitch

flex

FOND

font

font family

font size

font style

Fontographer

foot

footer

Gothic

geometric

glyph

greeked text

gutter

hanging indent

head

header

headline

hints

hyphenation zone

I-beam

ideograph

indents

initial cap

inline graphic

insertion point

italics

jumplines

justified

kerning

kicker

leader

leading

legibility

left justified

letter spacing

ligated

ligature

line spacing

logo

logotype

lowercase

majuscules

margin marker

margins

mean line

metrics

Modern

monospaced font

multiple master font

NFNT

normal

Oblique

Old Style

OpenType

orphan line

outline font

overprinting

paragraph tags

permanent font

petroglyph

PFM

pica

pictograph

pitch

pixel

point

point size

PostScript

printer font

proportionally spaced type

proportional spacing

pull quotes

QuarkXPress

ragged

RAM

rasterization

readability

rebus

recto

rendering

resident font

resolution

resonance

reverse type

right justified

RIP

Roman

running footer

running header

sans serif

scalable font

screen font

Script

serif

serif type

set-width

semiautomatic flow text

sidebars

side bearing

slant

slug

soft font

small caps

spacing

spread

spur

square serif

standoff

stem

stet

stress

stretched text

style

style sheet

subhead

substrate

swash capitals

tab

tab marker

tab stop

tail

teaser

terminals

text

text block

text box

text cursor

text face

text wrap

thin space

threaded text blocks

track kerning

tracking

transient font

transitional

TrueType

type

Type 1 PostScript font

Type 3 PostScript font

typeface

typography

typestyle

type manager program

type size

Uncial

uppercase

verso

vertex

weight

widow line

width

word processing program

word spacing

word wrap

WYSIWYG

x-height

x line

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