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| Ascenders | the parts of the lowercase character above the x-height. |
| Balance | the element of good design that is created by distributing the weight of various elements in a document. |
| Cap Height | height of a capital letter in a font. |
| Coherence | a consistence format. |
| Descenders | the parts of the lowercase characters that extend below the baseline. |
| Desktop publishing | the process of producing professional-looking documents using a personal computer and a color printer. (Examples: flyers) |
| Focus | the element that attracts the reader's eye. Can be a graphic or large headlines or titles. |
| Font | a typeface |
| Layout and Design | the way graphics and text are used to produce a high-quality document. |
| Point | the standard measurement unit for fonts, approximately 1/72 of an inch. |
| Sans Serif | fonts that do not have little lines at the ends of the strokes of each letter. |
| Scanners | input devices used to make digital copies of pictures and text so they can be used in preparing publications. |
| Serif | fonts that have little lines at the ends of the strokes of each letter. |
| Simplicity | Design principle that promotes clarity rather than clutter. |
| Templates | pre-designed documents that already have formatting for margins, tabs, fonts, and some objects included. |
| Thumbnail sketch | rough draft drawing used to explore layout options of a document being created. |
| Typeface | a set of characters with a common design and shape. |
| Wizards | software feature that walks the user through a series of steps in completing a task. |
| WYSIWYG | "What You See Is What You Get" - the capability of word processing software to show the document on the screen the way it will look when printed. |
| X-Height | the height of the main body of a lowercase character. |
