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encoding scheme is widely used on computer today, to provide the basic set of Roman characters; has limited support capabilities for accented characters (diacritics) and therefore, most current multilangual systems use Unicode, a much more flexible and efficient system.
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- Black Letter
refers to the more general term of calligraphed "Old English" or "Gothic" fonts. These early typefaces where used by the European inventor of Type, Gutenberg, to set the very first printed bible.
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- Reading Line
another term for baseline
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- Body Size point size obtained from the highest ascender to the lowest descender, plus additional white space to the descender line. Depending on font sizes, body size may show varied appearance of letterform size.
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- Boldface darker typeface with more weight, to emphasize text
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- Bowl oval within the round curves of letters like "d", "g", and "o"
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- Calligraphic Fonts and Typefaces that imitate beautiful writing, aka script fonts
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cap line imaginary line that is atop all capital lettersGlossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
condensed typefaces that offer an aspect ratio where the characters are more narrow than usual, allowing for more characters to appear on the same lineGlossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
contrast Appearant difference of color between thicker and thinner sections of a characterGlossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
counter enclosed (or at least delimited by) space within letters, like "C", "e", "s", and "H". Not to be confused with bowlGlossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
Cross Stroke The cross in a "t"; aka a cross barGlossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
Cursive see script fontsGlossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
Dots Per Inch dpi common unit of measurement of resolution (sharpness) for screen, scanners, and printers. The higher number of dpis, the sharper the image. For instance, a regular PC monitor can have a resolution of 72 dpi, when a printer will offer 300 dpi, and a typesetting equipement 4800 dpi.Glossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
Display Face Larger, Bolder version of a text typeface, that is commonly used for titles, headlines, and sub-headlines; aka title fontsGlossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
Drop Cap Oversized capital letter used at the start of a paragraph (typically)Glossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
Handwriting Fonts aka Script Fonts- Ligature
- Ligated Characters that have been assembled in a ligature, "linked" the way that is naturally done in Roman Cursive, between an "o" and any following letter, by modifying both glyphs.
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Typeface that has connections between letters, the most common of which are formal/informal scripts. Characters such as "fl", "fi", or "st" often appear as such in typefaces that are otherwise unconnected.
Punch Font Before the computer age, fonts were cavufmetal; this process was called "to punch" type.Glossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
Resolution aka dpiGlossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
Screen Font aka Bitmap fontGlossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
Script Fonts aka Script Typefaces aka Cursive Fonts aka Calligraphic Fonts Fonts that mimic handwritingGlossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
Unicode standard The Unicode standard had its genesis in eraly 1988 when a group of information professionals with extensive experience in multilingual computing agreed that no encoding methodology used in theur fields possessed the elegance and simplicity of ASCII. The Unicode character encoding was established as a fixed-width encoding of 16 bits, which would provide a sufficient number of unique codes for the world's scripts and technical symbols in comon use, and at the same time promote efficient and flexible system design.Glossary of terms about fonts, typefaces, and all sorts of strange words used in typography...
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