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| The margin nearest to the spine of a book. |
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Material, such as indices or appendices, that comes after the main text of a book.
Also called “end matter”. |
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| Ball Terminal: |
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| A round shape occurring at the end of a stroke as in a, c, f, and r. |
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| Baseline: |
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| The imaginary horizontal line along which characters appear to sit (or align). |
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| Similar to the spur, and can be found on L,T and E. |
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| Bitmap: |
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A pattern of elements (e.g. laser printer dots, or pixels on a computer screen)
which make up a character, graphic element, or image. |
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| Black/Broken Letter: |
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Gothic fonts, Schwabacher and Fraktur fonts are examples of black letter fonts.
The curves and the lines of such characters are most often twice ‘broken’. |
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| Body: |
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| The rectangle on which a typeface is fitted. |
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| Body Size: |
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| The size of a typeface character. Includes ascenders and descenders as well as a certain amount of space above the character. |
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| Bold Type: |
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| A version of a typeface heavier than the normal weight, characterized by thicker strokes, often used for emphasis. |
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| Bowl: |
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The round or elliptical main structural element of letters such as C, G, 0 Uppercase,
and b, c, e, o, p in the lowercase. Also sometimes called eye. |
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| Box: |
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| A rectangle enclosing text or illustration. |
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| Bracket: |
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| The joining of a serif to the main stem in an unbroken curve. |
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| Bullet: |
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A character, usually circular, often used to demarcate items in a list.
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