adj
Describing the typography used in these publications.
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(typography) Text or a font in which all letters are capital letters.
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(typography) A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
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(typography) A sans serif typeface designed by Monotype as a clone of Helvetica.
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(typography, graphology) The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.
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(typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
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(typography) A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.
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A serif typeface from the 18th century.
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(proofreading) Initialism of boldface. [(typography) A font that is dark, having a high ratio of ink to white space, written or drawn with thick strong lines.]
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(typography) A Northern European style of type, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page.
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A typeface used for representing bold characters, mainly used in mathematical texts, that allows these characters to be easily distinguished from non-bold characters when written.
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(typography) A font that is dark, having a high ratio of ink to white space, written or drawn with thick strong lines.
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(typography) The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.
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Any of several stylized handwriting scripts used during medieval times. It was intended for legibility and often used in transcribing official documents (prior to the development of printing and similar technologies.)
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(typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
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(typography) The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
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(typography, printing, dated) The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.
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(informal) An uppercase or capital letter.
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(typography) The line through the tops of capital letters of a particular typeface.
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(typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
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(typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
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(typography) Any of the serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I (c. 1692–1766) in London, or inspired by his work.
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A typeface formerly used in parts of Western Europe which imitates cursive script.
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A non-Unicode Indic-script font that composes characters using fixed components as opposed to using complex text layout algorithms.
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(typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
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(typgoraphy) A digital font whose glyphs carry color (instead of being monochrome like traditional digital fonts). The technology is commonly used for emoji, but has also been used for display fonts.
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(typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
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(uncountable, typography) A monospace font that resembles the characters produced by a typewriter.
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(graphic design, typography) The measure of a number of typeset font characterss per inch used or supported by a digital display device
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(typography) The text character †; the obelus.
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(typography) A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc.
adj
(typography) Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye.
v
To type (or format) text by leaving a blank line between each line of text
adj
(typography, of a character or font) Formed in a blackboard bold typeface, in which certain lines of the character are doubled
adj
(typography, capitalization) Which only capitalizes words (e.g. in headers) that would be capitalized in a normal sentence.
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(typography) A large initial letter that drops below the first line of a paragraph, usually used at the beginning of a section or chapter of a book.
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(typography) A large letter at the beginning of a line of text, positioned in a decorative way below the baseline of the rest of the type.
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(typography) A placeholder text used in typesetting.
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(typography) A typeface with 12 characters per inch.
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(historical) A typeface used in Elzevirian editions of the Latin classics.
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(typography) A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
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(typography) A space which has a nominal width of 1 em.
v
(transitive, typography) To format text in boldface.
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(typography) The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text.
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(typography) A unit of measurement equal to half an em (half the height of the type in use).
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(typography) A space which has a nominal width of 1 en
adj
(of a typeface) Wider than usual.
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(typography, rare) A factotum letter, or a similar kind of ornamentally bordered letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.
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(in fonts whose digits are of uniform width) A space of non-variable width: ⊣ ⊢ equal to the width of a digit.
adj
(typography) Alignment of the text aligned along the left margin or gutter.
adj
(typography) A body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
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(computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
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(computing, typography) the name of a font (typeface)
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(web design) The list of fonts a CSS stylesheet instructs a web browser to use.
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(archaic) A small font (receptacle for holy water).
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The design and study of fonts, or typefaces.
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(computing, informal) The study of fonts, or electronic typefaces.
adj
(typography) The alignment of all lines of text, regardless of length, where they stretch across from margin to margin.
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The visual style of a document, including fonts, borders, etc.
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(typography, Britain, dated) A typographic font.
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(web development) Initialism of flash of unstyled text: a brief glimpse of text in the default font before the correct font has loaded.
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Alternative spelling of fraktur. [(typography) A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries.]
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(typography) A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries.
adj
Alternative spelling of fullwidth [(computing, typography) Of a text character, occupying the space of two alphanumeric characters in a monospace font, or two "normal" text columns.]
adj
(computing, typography) Of a text character, occupying the space of two alphanumeric characters in a monospace font, or two "normal" text columns.
n
A particular sans-serif typeface
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(typography) A family of serif fonts derived from the work of Claude Garamont.
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(typography) An easy-to-read style of sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill.
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(computing, typography) Nonsense text or graphics inserted into a document as a placeholder to create a dummy layout, or to demonstrate a type font; the practice of using such placeholder text or graphics.
adj
(typography) Sans serif.
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(typography) A space between printed columns of text.
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(letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to create the narrowest space.
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(typography) An indentation that indents the rest of the text while leaving the first line in place.
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(typography) A non-breaking space.
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(informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
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(typography) The width of a header
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(printing) In typefounding, the length of a type from its face to its foot.
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(typography) A sans-serif typeface.
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(computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
adj
(typography) Of a typeface: resembling classical handwritten monumental Roman letters rather than the 19th-century grotesque typefaces.
n
(typography, in fonts whose ideographs are of uniform width) A space of non-variable width: ⊣ ⊢ equal to the width of an ideograph, used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other languages that use Siniform ideographs.
adj
(writing) Inserted in the flow of a text.
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(typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
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(typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
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(typography, uncountable) The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).
adj
(typography) Of text, arranged on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
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A variable width space, or a number of space characters, inserted between words to make a line of printed text a desired length
v
(typography, chiefly proportional font printing) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.
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(historical) Printed type which is set with extra leading in such a way as to give the text greater emphasis.
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(typography) Vertical space added between lines; line spacing.
n
(printing, dated) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
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(typography, uncountable) The distinction between majuscule (uppercase) and minuscule (lowercase) letters.
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Alternative spelling of letterspacing [(typography) The amount of space between adjacent text characters.]
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The shape of an individual letter
n
(printing, historical) One who founds or casts letters or types.
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(typography) The amount of space between adjacent text characters.
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(typography) A quotation taken from the main text and given special visual treatment.
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(countable, typography) A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.
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(typography) A point in writing where text that would normally continue on the same line starts at the beginning of a new line.
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(typography) A situation where a diacritic above or below a base character extends into the area used by the preceding or following line of text.
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(typography) The height of a line of text.
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Alternative spelling of line break [(typography) A point in writing where text that would normally continue on the same line starts at the beginning of a new line.]
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A form of typesetting machine in which a complete line of characters is set at once.
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(typography) A single type combining two or more letters (as a ligature or otherwise).
adj
(typography, computing) Of a font, having identical metrics as another font; having such a design enables a font to serve as a substitute for another font without affecting document layout.
n
(typography) Typography on a word or character level.
n
(typography) The level of the top of the x-height of a typeface.
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(uncountable, typography, printing) The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.
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(uncountable, US printing, typography, dated) A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.
v
To type, typeset, or design text using a typeface that has the same width for each character.
adj
(typography) monospace
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A system of printing and typography that uses movable components such as individual letters or punctuation to reproduce the elements of a document.
adj
(computing, typography) Involving multiple fonts or typefaces.
adj
(typography) Of a character: combined with another and so not consuming additional horizontal space.
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(typography) A letter that is not uppercase.
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(uncountable, typography, chiefly historical) The size of type between ruby and emerald (or, in the United States, between agate and minion), standardized as 6-point; (countable) a slug of this size.
n
(typography, often attributive) A traditional style of typeface designed to mimic the handwriting of scribes.
n
(typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
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(typography) The printing of one character over another, as - on top of L to produce Ł.
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(typography) The type set up for printing a page.
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A typeface developed for the Paris Metro by Jean-François Porchez
adj
(typography) Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.
n
(typography) Symbol or dingbat font; font that is composed of non-alphabetic characters.
n
(typography, uncountable, usually with qualifier) A font of this size.
n
(letterpress typography) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
adj
(computing) Of a text character: having a visual representation, unlike the control characters.
n
(typography) A character whose use is defined by private users and companies rather than defined by a standard such as Unicode, and which therefore has no universally accepted meaning.
adj
Of a typeface, having characters with natural (non-uniform) width (in contrast to monospace typefaces).
n
(software, publishing, typography) PostScript level 1
n
A typesetting format having text flush on the left and uneven on the right at the line endings.
n
(printing, historical) A frame for composing type.
n
(typography) That which is reset; printed matter set up again.
n
(chiefly computing) A font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic.
adj
(typography) Short for sans serif. [(typography) Of a typeface, without serifs.]
n
(typography) A typeface in which the characters do not have serifs.
n
Alternative spelling of sans serif [(typography) A typeface in which the characters do not have serifs.]
n
Alternative spelling of sans serif [(typography) A typeface in which the characters do not have serifs.]
n
(typography) Synonym of scriptio continua
adj
Having a typeface that has thicker than usual strokes, but not as thick as a bold typeface
adj
(typography) Of a typeface, provided with serifs.
n
(printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
n
(typography) The margin of empty space around a glyph in a font, measured from the glyph contour's leftmost, rightmost, topmost and bottommost points to the sides of its bounding box
v
To type (or format) text with only one space between consecutive sentences.
n
(typography) A kind of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs.
n
Alternative form of slab serif [(typography) A kind of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs.]
n
Alternative form of slab serif [(typography) A kind of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs.]
n
(typography) Synonym of small caps.
n
(typography) Capital letters shown in the same form but in small size (typically of the same size as lower-case letters).
n
(printing, dated) The size of type between long primer and pica, standardized as 11 point.
adj
(typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
n
Any of a series of typefaces that incorporate sonogram interpretations of letters
n
(typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
n
(letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad).
n
In a linotype machine, a kind of extensible wedge used to produce spaces of variable width in the text.
n
A retro 1980s font designed by Ray Larabie.
n
(typography) A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ).
n
(typography) A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
n
(typography) A horizontal or oblique line striking out individual characters.
n
(computing, typography) A subset of a font, holding only some of its glyphs.
adj
(typography) Printed in superscript.
n
(typography) A type of lettering form that appears as a number, figure, or symbol above the normal line of type, located at the right or left of another symbol or text.
adj
(typography) above the lines of normal text
n
A certain serif typeface.
n
(typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
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(printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
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(dated) A style of large handwriting, formerly used for the text of a book, contrasting with the smaller hand used for the notes.
n
(uncountable) Such types considered collectively.
n
Alternative spelling of text type [(countable) A type of written text, such as descriptive, narrative, expository or argumentative.]
n
(typography) A calligraphic form of black letter.
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(letterpress typography) A metal block used to separate words, one third of an em in width.
n
(typography) In digital text, a character representing a thin space.
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(typography) A serif typeface.
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(typography) Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.
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(computing, typography) A box or rectangle, empty or with a question mark or hexadecimal code inside, displayed by some systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts. (such as _□ or )
n
(typography) A consistent adjustment of space between individual letters; letterspacing.
n
(uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
n
(printing, historical) A line of type cast in one piece, as in a linotype or typograph.
n
(typography) A measure of how dense, bold or heavy the text appears on the page.
n
Alternative form of type color [(typography) A measure of how dense, bold or heavy the text appears on the page.]
n
(typography) The art of designing typefaces.
n
(typography) A person who designs typefaces as a profession.
n
(typography, printing) Alternative form of typeface [(typography) The particular design of some type, font, or a font family.]
n
A company that designs and/or distributes typefaces.
adj
(printing) Of the standard height of a line of type.
adj
Producing typeset materials.
n
(printing, historical) A case containing the printer's type characters.
n
(typography) The particular design of some type, font, or a font family.
adj
(in combination) Presented in a specified typeface.
n
Alternative spelling of type-founder [A manufacturer of metal type for printing.]
n
The assembly within a typewriter, teleprinter, etc., that physically prints characters onto the page.
adj
(of text) Set in type.
n
(historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.
n
A kind of visual poem created using a typewriter.
n
An apostrophe that has a straight, vertically symmetrical form, contrasted with the curved typographic apostrophe.
adj
written using a typewriter
n
(colloquial, dated) A compositor; a typographer.
n
(humorous, informal) A supposed language characterized by typos (typographical errors).
n
(printing, historical) A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.
n
a person skilled in typography
n
(countable, typography) A character that visually combines multiple letters, usually but not always by connecting them (making them contiguous), such as æ, œ, ß or ij; a logotype.
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Alternative form of typographic apostrophe. [An apostrophe that has a curved, asymmetrical form, contrasted with the straight, vertically symmetrical typewriter apostrophe.]
n
The appearance and style of typeset matter.
n
A person who is obsessed with typography, or more generally with the business of printing and publishing
n
(typography, printing) A ruler traditionally used in the graphic arts to inspect the measures of typographic materials.
n
(typography) The measurement of typefaces in typographic units.
adj
(typography) Bolder than a typical bold typeface.
adj
(chiefly typography) Extremely condensed.
n
An underline; a line drawn or printed beneath text; the character _.
n
(computing, typography) A character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme.
n
(typography) A digital font whose design features can be freely adjusted in a cline via the manipulation of various axes, such as the "weight axis" or "height axis".
n
(printing, historical) A kind of advanced typewriter that could use various different typefaces.
n
(typography) Abbreviation of variable font. [(typography) A digital font whose design features can be freely adjusted in a cline via the manipulation of various axes, such as the "weight axis" or "height axis".]
n
A text, such as a concrete poem, based on typography and layout rather than verbal meaning.
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(computing, Internet) A font designed for or used on the Internet.
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(typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
n
(typography) A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column.
n
A point in writing where a word is split so that part of it is relegated to the next line, typically at the end of a syllable and marked with a hyphen.
n
A glyph that separates words.
n
(typography) The distance between the baseline and midline in a typeface, typically equal to the height of the lower-case letter x.
n
(typography, Unicode) A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons.
n
A control character indicating where a line break may occur.
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