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Dingbat

Typographic symbol class

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Word spacing

Typographic practice of putting space between words

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Zero consonant

Consonant letter that doesn't correspond to a consonant sound

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All caps

Text with all capital letters

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Didone (typography)

Classification of serif typefaces

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Agate (typography)

Typographic unit; approximately 1.81 mm

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Kinetic typography

Style of animation mixing text and motion

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Homoglyph

Different glyphs which are visually similar

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Sans-serif

Typeface classification for letterforms without serifs

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Strikethrough

Words with a horizontal line through them

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Paragraph

Self-contained unit of discourse in writing

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Typography

Art of arranging type

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Thin space

Space character about 1/5 em wide

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Type casting (typography)

Technique for casting individual letters for use in printing presses

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Type Directors Club

Organization for better typography

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Thibaudeau classification
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Typographic alignment

Setting of text flow or image placement relative to a page, column, table cell, or tab

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Typographic approximation

Substituting rare characters with more common characters

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Text figures

Numerals typeset with varying heights

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Vox-ATypI classification

Classification system for typefaces

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Type design

Art of designing typefaces and fonts

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Typographic unit

Units of measurement

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X-height

Measurement of letters in a typeface

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Widows and orphans

In typography, an isolated line of text starting/ending a page

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Overline

Horizontal line immediately above a portion of writing

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Bouma

Typography term

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Italic type

Font style with cursive typeface and slanted design

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Slab serif

Type of serif typeface

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Leading

In typography, spacing between lines

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Desktop publishing

Page layout using a personal computer

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Superior letter

Typographical element

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Sentence spacing in language and style guides

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Subscript and superscript

Character set slightly below and above the normal line of type, respectively

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Emphasis (typography)

Typographical distinction

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Letter spacing

Physical spacing of characters in text

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Hz-program

Typographic composition computer program

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Optical margin alignment

Typographical setting

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Phototypesetting

Photographical analog method for text composition

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Microtypography

Improving the readability and appearance of text

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Initial

Oversized first letter in a text block

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Matrix (printing)

Mould used to cast letter blocks (sorts) used in printing

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Oblique type

Form of slanted type

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Modern typography

Late 19th century unornamented style

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Metric typographic units
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Counter (typography)

Enclosed area of a letter or symbol

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Lettering

Art of drawing letters

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The Imprint (printing trade periodical)

London printing trade periodical, 1913 only

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Body height (typography)

Height of the space in which a type element is defined

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Kerning

Process in typography

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Indentation (typesetting)

Empty space at the beginning of a line to signal the start of a new paragraph

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