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Typographic Terms - adobe.com
Typographic Terms W hen older typesetting methods gave way to electronic publishing, certain traditional Terms got carried along. Today Centered text Text placed at an equal distance from the left and right margins. Headlines are often centered. we use a mix of old and new terminology to Character In typography, a single element describe typography. such as a letter, numeral, or mark of punctua- Alignment The positioning of text within tion. The emerging term to describe these margins. Text flush with the margins on Typographic elements is glyph, which is more both sides is referred to as justified. Text is descriptive when discussing non-Roman often aligned with only one margin, either alphabet characters. the left or right and is then described as Character encoding An encoding is a table right- or left-justified, ragged left or -right, that maps character codes to the glyphs of a or flush-left or -right. font. There are 32,768 possible Typographic Ascender The stem of lowercase letters (such codes in the latest font technology, OpenType, as k, b, and d) that ascends above the x-height designed to accommodate nearly any alphabet of the other lowercase letters in a typeface.
Typographic Terms (continued) Glyph The basic building block in typeset- ting is a glyph—a letter, numeral, or symbol; groups of glyphs together are called fonts. One or more fonts sharing particular design features make up a family; Adobe Myriad Pro, for example, is the name of a type fam- ily.
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