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Typefaces / Fonts Typefaces are the visual symbols seen as printed images on a substrate (printing surface). Characters is another term used to identify all of the visual symbols used to compose a printed page.

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Page 1: Typefaces / Fonts zTypefaces are the visual symbols seen as printed images on a substrate (printing surface). Characters is another term used to identify

Typefaces / Fonts

Typefaces are the visual symbols seen as printed images on a substrate (printing surface). Characters is another term used to identify all of the visual symbols used to compose a printed page.

Page 2: Typefaces / Fonts zTypefaces are the visual symbols seen as printed images on a substrate (printing surface). Characters is another term used to identify

Typeface

Type Terms

Ascender Line

Descender Line

Ascender

Descenders

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Typeface

Type Terms

Upper Case Character

Lower Case Character

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Typeface

Type Terms

“x” or body height of typeWaist Line

Baseline

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Type Terms

TSet-Width

Top Serif

Stem

Bottom Serif

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Type Terms

T TSerif Font Sans Serif Font

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Type Terms

T EScript Font Square Serif Font

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Type Terms

T EDecorative Font Old English

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Type Terms

Families - consists of the variations of one style of type.

TimesTimes New Roman Bold

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Type Terms

Font consists of the letters (caps and lower case), figures, and punctuation marks that are of one size and style of type.

Font series is a full range of sizes of one font

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Type Terms - Type Sizes

32 point Arial

36 point Arial

40 point Arial

48 point Arial

54 point Arial

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Type Terms

Kerning - the space between characters (letter spacing)

Tight Kerning

L o o s e K e r n i n g

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Type Terms

Leading - Line spacing - determines the distance separating each line of copy.

Leading - Line spacing - determines the

distance separating each line of copy

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Vocabulary

TypefaceTypographerAscenderDescenderBase LineWaist LinePoint

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Vocabulary

StrokeSerifSans SerifFamilyFontKerningLeading