Typefaces Fonts z Typefaces are the visual symbols

Typefaces / Fonts z. Typefaces are the visual symbols seen as printed images on a substrate (printing surface). Characters is another term used to identify all of the visual symbols used to compose a printed page.

Type Terms Ascender Line Ascender Typeface Descenders Descender Line

Type Terms Upper Case Character Typeface Lower Case Character

Type Terms Waist Line “x” or body height of type Typeface Baseline

Type Terms T Set-Width Top Serif Stem Bottom Serif

T T Type Terms Serif Font Sans Serif Font

Type Terms E T Script Font Square Serif Font

Type Terms TE Decorative Font Old English

Type Terms z. Families - consists of the variations of one style of type. z. Times New Roman Bold z. Times New Roman Special Italic

Type Terms z. Font consists of the letters (caps and lower case), figures, and punctuation marks that are of one size and style of type. z. Font series is a full range of sizes of one font

Type Terms - Type Sizes z 32 point Arial z 36 point Arial z 40 point Arial z 48 point Arial z 54 point Arial

Type Terms z. Kerning - the space between characters (letter spacing) z. Tight Kerning z. L o o s e K e r n i n g

Type Terms z. Leading - Line spacing - determines the distance separating each line of copy

Vocabulary z. Typeface z. Typographer z. Ascender z. Descender z. Base Line z. Waist Line z. Point

Vocabulary z. Stroke z. Serif z. Sans Serif z. Family z. Font z. Kerning z. Leading