Typography

Typography

Typography is the technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. This process includes the selection of font style, size, line length and spacing.

Industry: Printing & publishing

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Alignment

Printing & publishing; Typography

The positioning of text within the page margins. Alignment can be flush left, flush right, justified, or centered. Flush left and flush right are sometimes referred to as left justified and right ...

Ascender

Printing & publishing; Typography

The part of lowercase letters (such as k, b, and d) that ascends above the x-height of the other lowercase letters in a face.

Baseline

Printing & publishing; Typography

The imaginary line on which the majority of the characters in a typeface rest.

Cap height

Printing & publishing; Typography

The height from the baseline to the top of the uppercase letters in a font. This may or may not be the same as the height of ascenders. Cap height is used in some systems to measure the type size.

Centred

Printing & publishing; Typography

Text placed at an equal distance from the left and right margins. Headlines are often centered. It is generally not good to mix centred text with flush left or flush right text.

Character encoding is a table in a font or a computer operating system that maps character codes to glyphs in a font. Most operating systems today represent character codes with an 8-bit unit of data ...

OpenType

Software; Typography

The OpenType™ format is a superset of the earlier TrueType and Adobe® PostScript® Type 1 font formats. As jointly defined by Microsoft and Adobe Systems, it is technically an extension of Microsoft's ...