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| See flush. |
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| Readability: |
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| A characteristic of type that determines how easy and comfortable it is to read a text. |
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| The right hand page of a book. |
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| Typical width of a basic font. |
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| Number of points or pixels per unit, usually measured in dpi (dots per inch) or P/cm (points per centimeter). |
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| Short for Raster Image Processor, changes the description language of a page, PostScript, for example, into pixels so that they can be read by laser printers or PostScript imaging device. |
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| Rivers: |
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| Uneven patches of white running through a page of text. |
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| Used to distinguish upright letterforms from sloped, oblique or italic. Also used to refer to the upright, normal weight and width variant of a typeface. Infrequently used to refer to serif as opposed to sans serif types. Also refers to types based on traditional Roman letterform proportions and design characteristics. |
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| A line often added between lines of type to separate text or for emphasis or decoration. |
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| A line of type appearing consistently in the head margin of each page. |
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