Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Definitions

Weight- Variations in the darkness of type.

Width- width of a character in relation to the height

Style- arrangement of appearance

Font- a complete character set of a particular typeface in one size

Typeface- a single set of characters that share stylistic unity

X-height- The height of a lower case x or the height of lower case letters.

Cap Height- the distance between the baseline and the top of a capital letter

Leading- the amount of horizontal space between two lines of text

Letter spacing (tracking)- overall spacing between letters in a block of text

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