Font Glossary
Ranged Left/Right: | |
See flush. | |
Readability: | |
A characteristic of type that determines how easy and comfortable it is to read a text. | |
Recto: | |
The right hand page of a book. | |
Regular: | |
Typical width of a basic font. | |
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Resolution: | |
Number of points or pixels per unit, usually measured in dpi (dots per inch) or P/cm (points per centimeter). | |
RIP: | |
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. | |
Rivers: | |
Uneven patches of white running through a page of text. | |
Roman: | |
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. | |
Rule: | |
A line often added between lines of type to separate text or for emphasis or decoration. | |
Running head: | |
A line of type appearing consistently in the head margin of each page. | |