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. | |