Complete Guide to Typography – Poster: Supplimentary

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1. Aperture

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The opening at the end of an open counter.

2. Baseline

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As the legendary Les Claypool puts it – “the baseline is the line upon which most letters “sit” and below which descenders extend. The vertical distance of the baselines of consecutive lines in a paragraph is also known as line height or leading, although the latter can also refer to the baseline distance minus the font size.

North Indian scripts have a characteristic hanging baseline; the letters are aligned to the top of the writing line, marked by an overbar, with diacritics extending above the baseline. East Asian scripts have no baseline; each glyph sits in a square box, with neither ascenders nor descenders. When mixed with scripts with a low baseline, East Asian characters should be set so that the bottom of the character is between the baseline and the descender height. “

3. Ascender

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Well, the ascender, in typography, expresses the mean line of a font. It makes the font more recognizable, more “warm” if you choose to put it like that.

4. Descender

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As opposed to the ascender, the descender is that part of the letter that goes below the x-height.

5. Uppercase

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Just a fancy name for the capital letters.

6. Lowercase

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Another fancy name, but for the smaller form of letters.

7. Serif

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Serif represents the feet of the letters. Also known as a font type.

8. Shoulder

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A curved stroke originating from a stem.

9. Stem

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Nothing more than the primary vertical stroke.

10. X-height

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The height of the main body of a lowercase letter.

11. Bowl

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A curved stroke that encloses a letter’s counter.

12. Counter

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Fully or partially enclosed space within a letter. These space stirred your imagination as a kid.

13. Stroke (diagonal)

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An angled stroke.

14. Spine

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The main curved stroke for a capital and lowercase “s”.

15. Arm

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A horizontal stroke not connected on one or both ends.

16. Leg

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Short, downward stroke.

17. Cross stroke

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A stroke across a stem.

18. Ball terminal

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An end in a circular shape.

19. Hairline

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The thin strokes of a serif typeface.

20. Apex/Vertex

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The top and bottom points where strokes meet.

21. Arc of stem

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Curved stroke, continuous with a stem.

This is where your journey ends! Hope this guide proved to be useful to you and now you can fully master the fascinating art of Typography.




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