Font Glossary
| Back: | |
| The margin nearest to the spine of a book. | |
| Back Matter: | |
| Material, such as indices or appendices, that comes after the main text of a book. Also called “end matter”. | |
| Ball Terminal: | |
| A round shape occurring at the end of a stroke as in a, c, f, and r. | |
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| Baseline: | |
| The imaginary horizontal line along which characters appear to sit (or align). | |
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| Beak: | |
| Similar to the spur, and can be found on L,T and E. | |
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| Bitmap: | |
| 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: | |
| See Bold Type. | |
| Black/Broken Letter: | |
| 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: | |
| The rectangle on which a typeface is fitted. | |
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| Body Size: | |
| 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: | |
| A version of a typeface heavier than the normal weight, characterized by thicker strokes, often used for emphasis. | |
| Bowl: | |
| 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: | |
| A rectangle enclosing text or illustration. | |
| Bracket: | |
| The joining of a serif to the main stem in an unbroken curve. | |
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| Bullet: | |
A character, usually circular, often used to demarcate items in a list.
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