Appendix:Glossary of typography

This is a glossary of typography.

A

 * all caps : Text or a font in which all letters are capital letters.

B

 * boldface : A font that is dark, having a high ration of ink to white space, written or drawn with thick strong lines.

F

 * face : A typeface.


 * font : A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (such as Helvetica), style (such as italic), and weight (such as bold).  Examples: Georgia Regular, Futura Book Oblique, Univers 47.


 * font family : (used in computer typography) A typeface; face.

G

 * glyph : A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style.

I

 * italics : Letters in an italic typeface.

J

 * justification : The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).

K

 * kern : The overhang of one letter to another letter which affects the spacing of characters. Kerning is altered to make text more clear.

L

 * ligature : The conflation of two characters to avoid collisions or facilitate legibility.

R

 * running text : The body of text, as distinct from headings, footnotes, diagrams and other added material.

S



 * sans serif : A typeface in which the characters do not have serifs.


 * sentence case : The standard capitalisation of an English sentence, with the first letter uppercase and subsequent letter lowercase with exceptions such as proper nouns or acronyms.


 * serif : A short horizontal line added to the tops and bottoms of traditional typefaces, such as Times Roman.


 * small caps : Capital letters A, B, C, ... shown in the same form but in small size (typically of the same size as lower-case letters).

T

 * title case : The capitalization in which the first letter of each major word is set in capital, used for titles and headings.


 * typeface : A set of fonts of a unified design, typically combining several weights (such as light, medium, bold), styles (roman, italic), or widths (narrow, extended). A face; font family.  Examples: Frutiger, Garamond, Helvetica.


 * typesetting : The setting or composition of written material into type.


 * typography : The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.

W

 * weight : The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes, such as light, medium, book, bold, or heavy.