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| Ascender | The part of a lowercase letter that rises above the x-height |
| Body type | type 12 points and smaller |
| Characters | Individual letters, numeral, punctuation marks |
| Descender | the part of a lowercase letter that goes below the x-height |
| Dingbat | A typographic decorative device such as a bullet or star |
| Display type | type 14 points or larger |
| Family | all the typestyles of a particular typeface |
| Font | all the characters of a particular typeface |
| Kerning | Adjusting the lettingspacing between certain letters to bring them closer together |
| Leading | the space between lines of type |
| Letterspacing | amount of space between letters |
| Line guage | printer's ruler that is calibrated in picas, points, and inches |
| Lowercase | small letters of the alphabet |
| Measure | the width of a line of type |
| Pica | unit of measurement equaling approximately 1/6 of an inch or 12 points |
| Point | Unit of measurement equaling approximately 1/72 of an inch or 1/12 of a pica |
| River | distracting pattern of white space running vertically down through body copy |
| Serifs | short cross-strokes that project out at the end of the main letter strokes in some typefaces |
| Small caps | capital letters that are the same size as the x-height of the typeface |
| Straight matter | body type set in normal paragraph form in contrast to tabular matter |
| Tabular matter | charts, tables, formulas, or other elements that make typesetting complicated and time consuming |
| Type | characters used singly or collectively to create words, sentences, paragraph, blocks of copy, etc. |
| Typeface | a particular style or design of type |
| Type size | the height of a typeface measured from the bottom of it descenders to the top of its ascender |
| Typography | the art and science of working with type |
| Uppercase | capital letters of the alphabet |
| Widow | end of a paragraph or column that is undesirably short |
| Wordspacing | amount of space between words |
| x-height | the distance between the baseline and mean line of type |
