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| Ascender | The part of a lowercase letter that rises above the x-height |
| Characters | Individual letters, numeral, punctuation marks |
| Descender | the part of a lowercase letter that goes below the x-height |
| Type Family | all the sypestyles of a particualar typeface |
| Font | All the characters of a particualar typeface. |
| Kerning | Adjusting the spacing between certain letters to bring them closer together |
| Leading | The space between letters |
| Lowercase | Small letters of the alphabet |
| Serifs | Short cross strokes that project out at the end of the main letter strokes in some typefaces |
| Typography | The art and science of working with type |
| Uppercase | Capital letters of the alphabet |
| x-height | The distance between the baseline and mean line of type |
| Baseline | the imaginary line where a line of text rests |
| Modern Typeface | Typeface with high contrasted thick and thin lines. Not good for lots of type |
| Serif Typeface | Type with semi-structural etails on the ends of letters and symbols and thick and thin areas |
| San Serif Typeface | Type with the same thickness all the way around |
| Script Typeface | Type that looks like cursive |
| Decorative typeface | Type that is very unique used for titles or a few words |
| en dash | a (-) that is used in place of "to" Ex: A-Z |
| em dash | A line that is used to show a pause in a sentence |
