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| Character | Individual visual symbols in a particular typeface |
| Typeface | distinctive designs of visual symbols (images) that are used to compose a printed page on paper or another printing surface |
| Typographer | determines how the manuscript should be expressed in type as well as other details of reproduction and physical format |
| Uppercase | Capital letters, "caps" |
| Lowercase | body letters |
| Body Height | The distrance from top to bottom of the lowercase letters, also called x-height |
| Ascender | The part of the letter that extends above the body height |
| Descender | The part of a letter that extends below the body height |
| Base Line | An imaginary line drawn along bottom of body height letters. Descenders go below it |
| Waist Line | An imaginary line drawn along top of body height letters |
| Counter | The nonprinting area surrounding a letter or inside the loop of a letter, such as d or p |
| Point Size | The vertical measurement used to identify or specify the size of a typeface. Measurement is from the top of the ascender space to the bottome of the descender space |
| Hairline | A thin line or element of a character |
| Stem | The vertical part of the characters |
| Stroke | The thickness of a line forming a character element |
| Stress | The slant or tilt of a character |
| Serif | The thickened tips or short finishing-off strokes at the top and bottom of a character |
| Set Width | The distance across a character from side to side |
