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| font | a full set of printing type or of printed or screen characters of the same design and size |
| type face | a particular style of printed character such as Helvetica or bold |
| character | any written or printed letter, number, or other symbol |
| style | A collection of font and paragraph settings that can be applied to text. |
| resume | personal information sheet used with job or scholarship applications |
| bold | having darker thicker lines than standard type, fonts, or lettering |
| italic | printed in or using letters that slope to the right |
| shadow | a darkened shape on a surface that falls behind somebody or something blocking the light |
| outline | to draw a line showing or emplasing the shape of something. |
| baseline | an imaginary horizontal line on which the bottom of all uppercase characters and the base of all lower case characters fall or rest. |
| x-height | the height of the lowercase letter x in a particular typeface, used as a measure of the height of the main body of all lowercase letters in that typeface |
| ascender | the part of a lowercase letter, for example, h, d, or b, that projects above the body of the letter. |
| point size | the size of text in a document |
| serif | Small line or stroke that appears at the ends of characters in serif typefaces |
| centered | positioned at the same distance from all edges or opposite sides |
| left aligned | to place something in a line, or in an orderly spatial relationship on the left side |
| right aligned | to place something in a line, or in an orderly spatial relationship on the right side |
| justified | to adjust the lengths of spaces between and within words in text in order to make both the left and right margins align |
| tab | a key on a computer keyboard, that advances the next character to a predetermined position used to align lines or columns |
| indents | to start a line or row some distance in from the margin |
| bullet | a large printed dot or other character such as a circle or diamond that appears in front of each item in a list of items in a printed list |
| leading | (rhymes with wedding) the vertical space that appears between two lines of text, measured in points from the baseline of one line to the baseline of the next line. |
| kerning | the addition or removal of space between individual characters in a piece of typeset text to improve its appearance or alter its fit |
| pull quotes | is an excerpt from the main article to highlight the ideas or to attract readers. It can be set off with a box or graphic. |
| hanging indents | an indenting of all the lines of a paragraph of text except the first |
| san serif | A French term meaning without serif. Typefaces in which the characters lack serifs |
