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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

1.) Font: a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface.
2.) Type: to write on a typewriter; typewrite or keyboard.
3.) Serif: semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols.
4.) Sans-Serifs: A font containing no serifs
5.) Italics: Cursive typefaces based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting.
6.) Stroke: A border applied to the outside of a font for emphasis.
7.) Glyph: A shape in a font that is used to represent a character code on screen or paper.
8.) Character: a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, uch as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.
9.) Script: Script typefaces are based upon the varied and often fluid stroke created by handwriting. They are organized into highly regular formal types ...
10.) Ligature: calligraphic embellishments to characters
11.) Justification: the typographic alignment setting of text or images within a column or "measure" to align along both the left and right margin.
12.) Open-Type-fonts: a scalable format for computer fonts initially developed by Microsoft, with Adobe Systems later joining in
13.) True-Type-Fonts: n outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript.
14.) Post Script: Vector-based illustrated Fonts.
15.) Leading: the amount of added vertical spacing between lines of type.
16.) Kerning: The adjustment of horizontal space between individual characters in a line of text.
17.) Tracking: efers to the amount of space between a group of letters to affect density in a line or block