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| Characters | Individual letters, numbers, punctuation marks, or symbols |
| Readability | How easily large bodies of text can be read |
| Sans Serif | French for “without little feet” |
| Type | Characters used singly or collectively to create words, sentences, paragraphs, blocks of copy, etc |
| Serif | French for “little feet” |
| Widow | A single word on the last line of a paragraph |
| Orphan | A widow that begins at the top of a column |
| Text wrap (runaround) | Lines of text that flow around the shape of a graphic image |
| Drop Cap | A large or decorative letter at the beginning of a paragraph |
| Tracking (Word spacing) | Adjusting space between words and letters for a line of type or an entire paragraph |
| Justified | All lines are aligned on the right side and the last line either flush left, centered or justified |
| Flush right (flush right/ragged left) | All lines are aligned on the right side and the left side is ragged |
| Leading | The distance between lines of type measured from baseline to baseline |
| Lowercase | Small letters of the alphabet |
| Small caps | Capital letters that are the same size as the x-height of the typeface |
| Uppercase (caps) | Capital letters of the alphabet |
| Ligatures | Two or more characters joined together, creating a compound character |
| Superscript | Smaller-than-normal characters set above the baseline; used for ordinal indicators, indication of a footnote and trademark/copyright symbols |
| Type size | The measurement in points of the distance between the ascender and descender lines for a type character |
| Script | Characters look like hand-lettering in a variety of forms |
| Decorative | Characters that are usually ornamental. Typeface examples include Curlz MT, Jokerman, Rosewood Std., and Giddyup Std |
| Typeface | The form and shape of a group of characters |
| Type family | All of the type styles of a particular typeface |
| Typography | is the art and science of working with type. |
| Font | Digital file containing information that the computer uses to create the typeface |
