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Minnie Miller
TypographicL e x i c o n
havingelements’edge placementagree alignment
&the sign &,Latin et, meaning“and”
ampersand
Tarm
a horizontal
stroke that is
free on one
or both ends
ascenderthe part of lowercase letter that extends above the median line
median line
baselineimplied line on which letterforms sit
beardlineinvisible line that indicatesthe bottom of descenders
black
bolder than bold
blackletterheavy, angular typebased on medievalscript writing
Cap heightthe height of capital letters,measured from baseline to top of the uppercase letter
baseline
a typeface that isheavier and wider
than the romanstyle of the same
typeface
bold
bulletdot indicating items in a list
•
••
eggs
bacon
grits
camelback
a capital letter thathas a lowercase letter
before and after it in a word
Patti LaBelle left her
iPhone at McDonald’s.
alignment in which
the midpoints of each
element are positionedon a central axis
centered
color
the lightness or darkness of an area of typethe lightness or darkness of an area of type
the lightness or darkness of an area of type
the lightness or darkness of an area of typethe lightness or darkness of an area of type
colophon
information at
the end of a
book and
sometimes on
websites that
describes its
production
condenseda narrow version of a typeface that fitsmore characters into a given space
American Typewriter regular
American Typewriter condensed
contrast
the amount of variation between thick and thin strokes of a letter
…
copyfitting
adjusting type to fit in a certainarea
adjusting type to fit
the space, either
completely or only
partially closed,
in letterforms
counter
bolda horizontal stroke connecting two stems HA
cross bar
stem
••
descenderthe part of a lowercase letterthat extends below the baselinein the letters g, j, p, q, y
baseline
dingbat
☼♥
☺♫
illustrative characters in a typeface
display type
body copy
subhead
letterforms whose purposeis to be read first
the primary text of a story
secondary type that explainsthe headline and leads to the text
text the main portion of a story
the title or primary typein a composition.
headline
Beauty in WorshipBecome Beautiful Through Worship
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Live a lifestyle of worship.
body copy/textwidow
display type
headlinesubhead
www.beautyinworship.comDecember 20118
foliorunning header/footer
margin
drop cap
raised cap
large initial set at the top left corner of bodycopy, baseline must align with a text baseline
A
large initial set at thetop left corner of body copy,baseline must align with first text baseline
A
“ ”" "dumb quotes
smart quotesquotation marks that
are curved, they are more proper
quotation marks thatare straight, they are not proper
ellipsis
em dash
a single character of three dots indicating an omission
the longest dash in a typeface,separates thoughts within a sentence
…—
en dash
the second-longest dash in a typeface, separates numbers
777–9311
eargear
baseline
descender
beardline
small strokeattached to somelowercase letters
Hflush lefttype that is aligned or even on the leftand ragged on the right
flush righttype that is alignedor even on the right
and ragged on the left
space between columnsand on either side of thebound inside margins ofmuliple-page documents
gutter
greeking
grid
using dummy text whendesigning a layout to hold
a place and show wheretext will go
a skeletal guide used to ensure designconsistency
punctuation
allowing lines that beginor end with punctuation to extend a bit beyond thecolumn width for opticalalignment
ha
ng
ing
facing pages
pages that are
across from each
other in a multipage
bound document
kerningremoving space between letter pairs in order to achieve optically consistent letterspacing
space between lines of type thatappears between the descenders of
one line and the ascenders of the next
leading
letterspacing equivalent to tracking, used to describe general spacing betweenletters
folio
The ability todistinguish
betweenletterforms
legibility
marginthe space at the four edges of a page
a template to set up a multipage document
the width in picas of a line or column of type
measure
masterpage
pica
1 ⁄ 6 of a
n inch
or 12
points
rules or strokes above and or belowa paragraph
optical alignment
orphan
paragraph rule
adjusting elements or letterforms so they appear aligned, which is more important than actually being aligned
a word or word fragment at the top of a column
1⁄72 of an inch, or 1⁄12 of a pica,the basic unitof a verticalmeasurement of type point
reader’s spreadwhat the reader sees as opposed to printer’s spread
Page 1 Page 2
a line of type that repeats on everypage, usually near the page number.
romanan upright, medium-weight typefacestyle
run aroundtype set around an image or element
running header/footer
serifa small terminal at the end of a stroke or arm of a letter
set solidtype set without additional line
spacing
shoulderin metal type, the nonprinting surface of type or a slug
the general direction of a letter, whether vertical for romans, or diagonal for italics
small capscapital letters that are about the size of the x-height of lowercase letters of the same typeface
stemthe main straight stroke of a letter
stress
tracking
adjusting overall letter and word space in a line or paragraph
all styles and variations of a singletypeface
type family
Century Gothic Century GothicCentury GothicCentury Gothic
bold italic
bold
italic
regular
uppercase
C A P I T A L L E T T E R S
variable spacedtype in which each
character is assignedits own width as
determined by thecharacter’s inherent
width
TimesNewRoman
UPPER &Lowercase
U&Lc
aligning both the left and right sides of a column of type by distributing space evenly between words andletters
justification
ac
printer’s spreadthe page configuration used byprinters
Page 1 Page 6
a class of sans serif type thatlooks like handwriting,doesn’t
look too mechanical or geometric
humanist
Optima
hairlinethe thinnest stroke of a typeface,thinnest line in which an outputdevice can make, usually ¼ point
recto
any right hand page in a bounddocument, always odd numbered
readibilitythe quality of reading, determined
by letterspacing, line spacing,paper-and-ink contrast and
other factors
Can youread this?
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a lighter variation in the density of a typeface opposite of boldface
light
AmericanTypewriterlight
the hanging stroke of lettersterminal
ac f
typefacea set of characters of a certain design
and bearing its own name includesalphanumeric figures, punctuation,
accents, and symbols
AcademyEngravedabc 123 ?!$
ligatureconjoined characters into a single one for consistent optical spacing
fl
a typeface with vert ical stress,strong stroke contrast and
unbracketed ser i fs
modernDidot
oblique
a page numberfolio8
lowercase
noncapitalletters of atypeface,also calledminuscules
glypha character in a font
Ŋ
italic
type that slant to the right
type originating in the 15thand 16th centuries
old style
Garamond
monospaced typetypefaces in which each characteroccupies the same horizontal space
courier
where two strokesof a letter intersect
junction
x
sans serif
means “without serifs”
rulea line
sans serif
ragged
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type with especially thick serifsslab serif
BookmanOld Style
8
verso
any left hand page in a bounddocument
noncapitalletters of atypeface,also calledminuscules
recto
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weightthe lightness or darkness of a typeface
Helvetica Neue UltraLight
Helvetica Neue RegularHelvetica Neue Light
widow a wordor word
fragment atthe end of aparagraph
word spacing
space between words
x-heightthe distance from the baseline to the median in lowercase letters
median line
baseline
space between words
Minnie MillerGRD 110 Type 1Fall 2011Final Project
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